GDI Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Why Resilience and Team-Based Approaches Matter for Today’s Development Professionals
| Dates: | 25 March 2026 |
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| Times: | 16:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Alumni, Current University students |
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Speaker: Hemansu-Roy Trivedy, former UN Resident Coodinator in Timor-Leste
Drawing on Blanchard and Hersey’s work on leadership, this presentation will focus on three areas: (i) situational leadership; (ii) working as part of a team; and (iii) resilience. Trivedy will talk about his personal experience of finding out how and why these areas are important and how he used them in his work and career.
Hemansu-Roy Trivedy is retired from full-time work. Since 2024 he is the Honorary Consul of Timor-Leste in Scotland. He is also a Trustee for ActionAid UK. He works as a part-time, volunteer mentor for the United Nations and for the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He is also a volunteer for ‘Cycling Without Age, Scotland, a charity that enables older people in care homes to enjoy the outdoors.
Roy served as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Timor-Leste from February 2018-November 2022 and as the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Papua New Guinea from December 2013 to December 2017. Prior to that, he worked for the Department for International Development UK for 13 years. He was a Senior Civil Servant for the UK and served in various positions including as: Head of Civil Society Department (2009-2013); Team Leader for the UK White Paper (Building our Common Future 2009); Head of DFID Tanzania (2006-2008), Programme Manager Central Asia and the Caucasus (2003-2005); and Conflict Adviser (Africa) 2000-2003.
Roy joined DFID after 20 years of working for non-governmental organisations including Oxfam UKI and Save the Children (UK) in the UK, Mozambique, India and Malawi. He studied at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and the University of Sheffield.
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