Kaley is the IEEP Associate Research Director. She joined IEEP in October 2007 and was Head of the Agriculture and Land Management Programme until 2018. She is an experienced policy adviser and researcher, with over 25 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. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked at Nature England and the Countryside Agency, and before that at CPRE as their Rural Policy Officer and as a Research Assistant at Kings College and Wye College, University of London.