Team

co-director

David Annandale

Dr David Annandale is an international Environmental Policy Specialist, and Senior Partner at DDA International Consulting. He has over 35 years of experience in the public, private, and NGO sectors.

For 13 years, Dr Annandale was an academic at Murdoch University in Australia, finishing up as Dean of the School of Environmental Science. Since 2005, Dr Annandale has consulted independently for major development banks like ADB, AfDB, AIIB, IDB, CDB, CEB, EIB, and World Bank, as well as UN agencies including IFAD, FAO, IUCN, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, UN Women, UNICEF, UNOPS, and UN-REDD. His work also extends to climate funds such as GCF, GEF, GFCR, CAFI, and NGOs like Mercy Corps, Save the Children, and CI. His substantive expertise includes designing safeguards frameworks linked to development finance, environmental impact assessments and related management plans for a range of project types (EIA/ESIAs and ESMPs), strategic environmental assessments (SEA/SESAs), institutional evaluations, policy reviews, REDD+, project due diligence, and climate change.

He is a long-time member of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA) and is a visiting professor at Liverpool University (UK).

co-director

Darko Annandale

Darko Annandale is a Social and Environmental Policy Specialist, and Junior Partner at DDA International Consulting. He has over eight years of experience in environmental and international development policy, for public and private clients.

His core expertise spans strategic social and environmental impact assessments (SESIA), grievance redress mechanisms, environmental and social impact assessments (EIA/ESIAs), environmental and social safeguards, and institutional evaluations for 18 multilateral development banks and climate finance institutions. He is an expert on eDNA sampling and analysis, having undertaken the largest eDNA study yet undertake in the Pacific.

He has conducted numerous capacity-building workshops on social and environmental assessment methodologies. With experience across equity investments, debt, bonds, and guarantees, he has worked on development projects spanning all economic sectors in over 30 countries. His project portfolio ranges from micro-enterprises to large-scale extractives, transport, and energy initiatives, with a recent focus on renewables and just transition. He has provided guidance on critical issues such as labour rights, resettlement, construction impacts, indigenous peoples, and cultural heritage.

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL POLICY CONSULTANT

Mara Fehling is a Environmental and Social Policy Consultant at DDA International Consulting, with a special focus on biodiversity.

Her work has focused on the development of Environmental and Social Management Systems for UN Agencies and NGOs, as well as benchmarking the safeguards frameworks of multilateral, bilateral, and private actors in international development. This has given her a detailed understanding of these frameworks, associated standards and requirements, and their implementation at the project level. She has also delivered training on safeguards systems and the associated operational procedures for various clients.

Mara has applied her previous experience in the EU environmental policy field working on policy-level research and reviews for various Multilateral Financial and Development Organisations. At a project level her focus has been on project evaluation, assessment (including ESIAs, related ESMPs, and SESAs), and compliance, working on projects in various countries in Asia and Africa, ensuring a high standard of due diligence and coordinating with global teams.

Mara also has over two years of experience in data analysis in environmental and climate policy, connected with climate modelling and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL
POLICY CONSULTANT

Laura Steel Pascual is a Junior Environmental and Social Policy Consultant at DDA International Consulting, with a special focus on machine learning applications and social vulnerability assessments.

Her work has focused on environmental and social safeguards in the global development sector, benchmarking the safeguards frameworks of multilateral, bilateral, and private actors in international development, and conducting research across various environmental and social public policy topics. She has also supported environmental and social due diligence and assessments at the project level, including ESIAs, related ESMPs, and SESAs, in the East Asia and Pacific region. She has experience developing policies, benchmark reports, and management systems for UN agencies and multilateral development organisations, especially related to gender, Indigenous Peoples, stakeholder engagement, GRMs, and private sector engagement.

Laura has previous experience in interdisciplinary research and editorial/communications work, and specialised research interests in environmental displacement topics and the European Union.  Furthermore, she has experience in data analysis, statistical programs, GIS, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in environmental impact assessment and climate modelling.

OPERATIONS MANAGER

sarah SULLIVAN-SMITH

Sarah Sullivan-Smith is the Operations Manager at DDA International Consulting.

John Horberry

John Horberry has over 40 years of experience in environmentally sustainable development, working with international development agencies, financial institutions, governments, and the private sector. He has held roles at IIED, Environmental Resources Management, and the United Nations Environmental Programme. His expertise centers on environmental and social safeguards for international development projects, including designing safeguard systems, preparing technical guidance, conducting training, and investigating compliance. He has advised agencies on safeguard systems and implementation challenges and has worked extensively on mainstreaming environment into national policymaking and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Notably, he co-directed the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI). Recent clients include UNDP, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IFAD, the Green Climate Fund, and UK DFID

BRUCE JENKINS

Bruce Jenkins is a consultant on sustainable development, with a focus on environmental, social and governance issues. In recent years, Bruce has been the principal consultant for the development of the UN EMG’s Model Approach on Environmental and Social Standards for UN Programming and UNDP’s Social and Environmental Standards, Social and Environmental Screening Procedure, and supporting guidance materials. Bruce has undertaken and contributed to several reviews and evaluations with the Global Environment Facility. He has also consulted with the World Bank, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, and the World Resources Institute, among other organisations.

He was formerly the Policy Director at the Bank Information Center (BIC).

PATTI MOORE

Patti Moore is an environmental lawyer with more than 27 years’ international experience, working in the field of environmental law and governance across more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.  

In 2010, she and a national colleague prepared the first equivalence assessment for environmental safeguards, which the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank jointly supported for Vietnam.  Since then, she has prepared forensic environmental and involuntary resettlement equivalence assessments for specific sectors in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, collaborated with national colleagues to develop assessments for environment, involuntary resettlement, and indigenous peoples in another six countries, and reviewed assessments for more than 30 additional countries. Patti has also conducted training on equivalence assessments for the Asian Development Bank. 

JANIS SHANDRO

Janis Shandro's work and research are focused on a range of topics associated with community and occupational health, safety and security. She has broad experience across diverse sectors in the areas of effective risk management, strategic health and development investments, along with due diligence, monitoring and evaluation approaches. She has successfully supported the adoption of improved health, safety and social performance in challenging and unique settings and has developed and implemented a range of programs and capacity building efforts for diverse target groups. 

She specialises in identifying and managing community health and safety risks associated with large-scale development projects, incidents and emergency scenarios. She has in working on complex/special projects in sensitive/fragile settings and a track record of working collaboratively with communities, governments, international organisations, multilateral development banks, academic institutions and the private sector in developing and developed nations.

Kate Turner

Kate Turner has experience in a variety of environmental fields, including watershed restoration and management, water policy, impact assessment, and environmental education. Kate spent eight years working with the Drinking Water Source Protection Program (Ministry of Environment, Ontario, Canada), which gave her first hand experience reviewing complex source protection plans, including examining legislative compliance, identifying gaps, considering and analyzing stakeholder comments, assessing implementability, and providing recommendations to senior management. Now, Kate works with several watershed organizations in southern New Brunswick, Canada, writing grant proposals and reports, developing restoration projects, and coordinating outreach events. She is also engaged in various environmental consulting jobs, working on forest policy projects and on environmental safeguards-related work.