Kaley is an IEEP UK Associate.  She is an experienced policy adviser and researcher, with over 30 years of expertise in influencing the development and implementation of UK and European policies which impact on the rural environment, with a particular focus on agricultural and land use policies and their implementation.  She is an experienced facilitator and communicator, adept at relaying complex or technical information in an informative and compelling way to suit different audiences. 

 

Between 2007-2025 she worked at IEEP in various roles, as Associate Director for Research, Executive Director of IEEP UK and as Head of the Agriculture and Land Management Programme.  She is currently part of the core team of the CAP Implementation Contact Point of the EU CAP Network.  She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, UK, a member of the College of Experts for England’s Office for Environmental Protection and sits on the Policy and Campaigns Committee of CPRE, the Countryside Charity.  Prior to joining IEEP she worked on land management policy issues at UK government advisory bodies, as a campaigner at an NGO and as a researcher at the University of London.