Clear responsibilities. Integrated delivery.
IDER’s functional leadership structure places executive accountability, practice leadership and research assurance around every assignment. The chart describes responsibilities; named appointments are not presented without approved profiles.
Governing oversight
Strategy · Integrity · Financial accountability
Executive Director
Institutional leadership · Research quality · Client and delivery accountability
Director, Market Intelligence & Private-Sector Research
Leads market entry, demand, customers, pricing, competition and growth research.
Director, Investment Research & Financial Analytics
Leads feasibility, investment appraisal, commercial due diligence and financial modelling.
Director, Strategy, Performance & Data Analytics
Leads business strategy, performance diagnostics, management dashboards and implementation evidence.
Director, Development Economics & Public-Sector Research
Leads policy, socioeconomic studies, evaluation, social protection, agriculture and health economics.
Head of Research Operations
Fieldwork, logistics and assignment coordination
Head of Data & Digital Systems
Data quality, secure access and analytical systems
Head of Client & Corporate Services
Proposals, client relationships, finance and administration
Quality-assurance lead · Data-protection responsibility · Ethics and conflict review. Issues are escalated to executive and governing oversight as appropriate.
Executive leadership
The Executive Director is responsible for institutional strategy, research leadership, client relationships, delivery oversight and financial stewardship. Practice Directors translate the client’s decision into the right research design and a clear interpretation of the evidence.
Governance and independent challenge
Governing oversight addresses strategic direction, institutional integrity and financial accountability. Quality-assurance responsibility should be independent of day-to-day delivery where the assignment requires additional technical challenge. Significant ethical concerns, conflicts and confidentiality issues are escalated to executive leadership.
Shared services and accountability
Research Operations coordinates fieldwork, scheduling and delivery. Data and Digital Systems oversees data quality, access and reproducibility. Client and Corporate Services coordinates client communications, proposals, finance and administration. Data-protection and ethics responsibilities are assigned explicitly for each study.
Personnel conduct and safeguarding oversight
IDER’s PSEA policy sets a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation and abuse, conduct standards and protection against retaliation. The related procedures define recruitment screening, training requirements, reporting, investigations and survivor support. These responsibilities apply across research practices and project teams.
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