Jock is a policy, institutions and planning specialist who started work in overseas development in 1975. He has been involved in research, development, training and management roles with a focus on policy research/analysis, policy guidance, project design, project review/evaluation, and sustainable livelihoods facilitation and training. Jock was co-founder of IMM in 1990 and has worked with the company since. 

He has worked in Benin, Brazil, British Virgin Isles, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cook Islands, Dominica, Ecuador, European Union, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kiribati, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Romania, Saudi Arabia, St. Lucia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Turks and Caicos Islands, Vietnam, Western Samoa and Zambia.

He has a B.Sc. degree in Zoology with Marine Zoology from the University College of North Wales, Bangor and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Sea-Use Law, Economics and Policy-Making. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Email: j.campbell-imm@ex.ac.uk

Philip is a social development specialist who started working as an APO sociologist with a regional small-scale fisheries programme of the FAO in 1987. Since then he has been involved in a wide range of projects with multilateral and bilateral organisations and NGOs, focusing on the social aspects of development. He has extensive experience in research and development work in coastal and fishing communities, in small-scale aquaculture, and in training in participatory and sustainable livelihoods approaches as well as policy development. 

His experience has been in the following countries: India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Maldives, Fiji, Vanuatu, Barbados, St.Kitts and Nevis, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Egypt, Vietnam, Albania, Italy, U.K., Chile. 

After completing a B.A. degree in English at Kings’ College, London, he worked as an English teacher in Italy and Indonesia before taking an M.A. in Rural Social Development at the Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Centre (AERDC) of the University of Reading. He joined IMM in October, 2000.

Email: ptownsley@fastwebnet.it

Franceca is a climate change and livelihoods specialist whose field experience has included working on REDD issues in Nepal; health and food security in Lao PDR; and working with IMM in St Kitts and Nevis and Belize on the EU Force project around coral reefs and livelihood diversification. 

Work in the UK has been on the relative impacts of employment guarantee schemes and cash transfers on poverty reduction for ODI; and a study of public engagement with climate change using digital story telling for the UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change.

She graduated from the University of East Anglia with a B.SC in Environmnetal Geography and International Development, and an M.Sc in Climate Change and International Development. She also attended a Climate Governance course implemented by UNEP that focussed on Arctic governance. Francesca joined IMM in march 2012.

Email: f.booker-imm@ex.ac.uk

Natalie graduated in 2011 from Oxford Brookes University where she studied Geography and Cities - Environment, Design and Development.  This work covered hazard management, conservation, planning, spatial planning and sustainable development. Natalie has travelled extensively during and after university visiting Cambodia, Cuba, Morocco, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Fiji, India, Kenya, St Lucia and Costa Rica.

She will be working withh IMM as a researcher collecting and analysing data in Belize under the EU FORCE project.  Natalie joined IMM in 2012.

Email: n.morrish-imm@hotmail.co.uk 

Emma is a coastal livelihoods specialist with experience in coral reefs and coastal area management. She has been involved with planning, management and support for a variety of government and NGO led research projects focusing on biophysical, socio-economic and livelihoods aspects of coastal communities and coastal area management. Emma joined IMM in 2001. 

She has experience of working in the following countries: Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, Ghana, Honduras, India, Ireland, Kenya, Lesotho, Maldives, Mozambique, Spain, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. 

She has a B.Sc. in Zoology from Edinburgh University, an M.Sc. in Tropical Coastal Management from Newcastle University, and PhD from the University of Exeter.

Email: e.whittingham-imm@ex.ac.uk