Meet the team
The Global Land Alliance’s dedicated Prindex team works to uncover global insights on land and property rights. Combining expertise in research, data analysis, and advocacy, we are committed to ensuring secure land rights for everyone, fostering stability and economic growth around the world.
Leadership
Anna Locke
Co-director
Anna Locke is the Co-Director of Prindex with Global Land Alliance. Previously she was a Director of the UK-based thinktank, ODI, Head of their Sustainable Environments and Societies Programme and Principal Research Fellow in ODI’s Climate and Sustainability Programme. She has worked for 30 years in international development, researching and advising on development issues in more than 20 countries across the world. She specialises in land and property rights, and how they intersect with responsible agricultural investment, gender equality, violent conflict and environmental outcomes, particularly in areas under IPLC management.
Malcolm Childress
Co-director
Malcolm Childress is a multi-disciplinary land resources specialist with 25 years of global experience, including urban and rural property rights, and strategy for managing critical global ecosystems. His focus areas include land policy and governance, land markets, land registration, property taxation, cadastral systems and spatial planning. Before co-founding Land Alliance, he was a Sr. Land Administration Specialist in the World Bank.
Research
Denys Nizalov
Senior Land Governance Adviser
Denys is a Senior Land Governance Adviser for Prindex, supporting research and country engagement on land tenure security. Before this position, Denys worked as a Program Director for the "Supporting Transparent Land Governance in Ukraine" project, World Bank. Denys has worked as an international consultant in agricultural, rural and regional development and impact evaluation for more than 15 years. For the last six years, he has been involved with land governance monitoring and land reform activities in Georgia, Ukraine and Croatia.
Ian Langdown
Researcher
Ian is a consultant researcher for Prindex. His experience includes policy-orientated research on land tenure, community level urban resilience, ecosystem based adaptation to climate change, and water and sanitation provision. He has expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis and dissemination, including community-led data collection and mapping, GIS, and household survey design and implementation. Before joining Prindex, Ian was an ODI researcher, and worked as a research assistant with the Development Planning Unit at UCL.
Administration
Christen Corcoran
Program support and office administrator
Christen Corcoran, GLA’s Associate Director and Program Support to Prindex, Christen Corcoran is a social scientist with a background in governance and social theory. She is a climate, social and racial justice activist. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Universität Bremen and Jacobs University, with an area of focus in rule of law and border theory. Corcoran served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco where she worked in the youth and gender development sector. She speaks German and Moroccan Arabic.
Cynthia Berning
Project Coordinator
Cynthia is a project management professional with expertise in land tenure, agriculture, irrigation and rural finance projects. She has worked for ten years in rural development and project management with MCC, Peace Corps and USAID. Cynthia has extensive field experience in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, China, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe and speaks French, Spanish and Moroccan Arabic. In addition to working with the Prindex and Global Land Alliance teams, she also manages a small sheep farm in Northern Virginia.
Communications
Paula Alvarado
Communications lead
Paula is a strategic leader with over 20 years of experience in branding, communications, and organisational development, specializing in human rights, climate change, and sustainable development. She has worked with leading organisations such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, World Health Organization, Conservation International, and Tenure Facility. Paula has extensive experience collaborating with civil society and international organisations across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Her expertise spans policy development and operational management in global health, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, and humanitarian efforts. Her dynamic, empathetic approach drives innovation and delivers transformative results.
Global Land Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to enable the sustainable prosperity of people and places by advancing learning and practice of land governance to achieve healthy relationships with land, life and natural resources, emphasizing local and Indigenous knowledge. Global Land Alliance has a vision for world where local people and communities have control-of and access-to their land, property and housing: which in turn creates a more socially just, economically prosperous, and environmentally sustainable world. We understand that communities know their land most intimately, and that rights-based approaches that center local empowerment, inclusion, participation and consent are key to improve land governance agendas. Global Land Alliance develops relationships with communities, organizations and governments to bridge knowledge and practice.
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Donors
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