Leda Stott

BA Hons (Sussex), MSc (Edinburgh)

Associate Lecturer

Leda is a specialist in multi-stakeholder collaboration and development. She has worked internationally in the design, management and evaluation of projects involving organisations in the public, private and civil society sectors, and conducts a range of partnership research and training activities. She is a partnership expert to the European Commission and Senior Associate of Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation (BPDWS) and The Partnering Initiative (TPI).

Currently Director of the International Master in Sustainable Development and Corporate Responsibility (IMSD) at the EOI Business School in Madrid, Leda teaches on several postgraduate programmes in the UK and Spain. From 2002-8 she was a tutor on the first Postgraduate Certificate in Cross-sector Partnership (PCCP) at the University of Cambridge and editor of the journal Partnership Matters, Current Issues in Cross-Sector Collaboration.

Over the last few years Leda has worked on partnership projects with the Aga Khan Development Network, British Council, European Social Fund, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), International Business Leaders Forum, Marine Stewardship Council, Pan American Health Organisation and United Nations System Staff College, among others.

Examples of recent publications and papers

Stott, L. (2012) Partnership Learning Manual, Community of Practice on Partnership in the European Social Fund, Vienna

Stott, L. (2011) Partnering for Sustainable Fisheries, A practical guide for working in partnerships to support Marine Stewardship Council certification for small-scale and developing world fisheries, Marine Stewardship Council, London

Stott, L. (ed.) (2011) Poverty-Oriented Planning & Reporting for Development Partnerships, GIZ, Eschborn, Germany

Stott, L., Weir, G., Lema, Z.E & Shaba, R. (2011) Partnership Landscape: Country Profile Tanzania, GIZ, Eschborn, Germany

Stott, L. & Scoppetta, A. (2011) Promoting Transnational Learning: Using a critical friend peer review process in the Community of Practice on Partnership in the European Social Fund, European Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol.3. Issue 1, Spring

Stott, L. (2010) The Partnering with Governments Navigator, Building effective collaboration with the public sector in Africa, International Business Leaders Forum & GTZ, London

Rein, M. & Stott, L. (2009) "Working Together": Critical Perspectives on six cross-sector partnerships in Southern Africa, Journal of Business Ethics Volume 90, Issue1, 2009

Stott, L. (2008) How European Social Fund Managing Authorities and Intermediate Bodies Support Partnership, European Commission, Brussels

Caplan, K. & Stott, L. (2008) Defining our Terms and Clarifying our Language, in Svensson, L. & Nilsson, B. eds. Partnership-As a Strategy for Social Innovation and Sustainable Change, Santérus Academic Press, Sweden

Caplan, K., Gomme, J., Mugabi, J. & Stott, L. (2007) Assessing Partnership Performance: Understanding the drivers for success, BPD, London

Stott, L. (2007) Conflicting Cultures: Lessons from a UN-Business Partnership, Making a Difference, Exploring Issues in Partnering Practice Series, IBLF, London

Rein, M., Stott, L., Yambayamba, K., Hardman, S. & Reid, S. (2005) Working Together, A Critical Analysis of Cross-Sector Partnerships in Southern Africa, University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, Cambridge

Stott, L. (2005) EQUAL Guide for Development Partnerships, Learning from the Experience of EQUAL Partnerships, European Commission, Brussels