Staff Profile

Dr Graham Long currently works on implementation, monitoring and review of the UN Sustainable Development Goals at subnational, national and global scales.

He contributed analysis and policy work to the intergovernmental drafting process for the SDGs from 2013-2015 at UN and EU level as part of the ‘Beyond 2015’ global NGO coalition, and now works on implementation, monitoring and review of the SDGs within the UK and globally.

In the UK, his analysis and research-to-policy work has played an important role in government, parliamentary and civil society engagement around the SDGs. He was Special Advisor on the SDGs to the International Development Committee of the House of Commons, 2019 and currently co-leads a project for the London Sustainable Development Commission on measuring the Goals in London. In 2019, he led a project looking at measurement and implementation of the SDGs in Scotland, for the Scottish Government.

Globally, he has worked with UN-DESA (on civil society reporting, SDG reporting guidelines for states, and partnerships for the SDGs), UNDP (on parliamentary engagement), and global stakeholder groups such as Together 2030 and Action for Sustainable Development (on stakeholder engagement in national review processes).

Recent research-to-policy work on the SDGs:

• UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Voluntary National Review House of Commons International Development Committee, 2019
• The SDGs and Scotland: a discussion paper and initial analysis For Scottish Government, 2019
• A Study of Partnerships and Initiatives Registered on the UN SDG Partnerships Platform For UN-DESA, 2019
• Commitments and challenges: stakeholder participation in follow up and review of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2019 with Together 2030, 2019
• How should civil society stakeholders report on their contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development? For UN-DESA, 2018
• Engaging Parliaments on the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs: A Handbook for Civil Society, with UNDP and Together 2030, 2018
• Seeing the Whole: Implementing the SDGs in an Integrated and Coherent Way, With Anna Coopman, Farooq Ullah, Derek Osborn (Stakeholder Forum) Emily Auckland (Bioregional) (2016)