Claire Melamed is the Head of the Growth and Equity Programme at ODI. She was previously the Head of Policy at ActionAid UK. She has also worked for Christian Aid, the United Nations in Mozambique, and taught at the University of London and the Open University. Claire's current research interests are on the MDGs and the development of a post-MDG international agreement on development, on how an analysis of equity can improve our understanding of poverty and how to end it, on how to design policies to ensure that the benefits of growth are distributed to poor people, and on how to make inequality visible to policy makers through better data.