Since our foundation in 1973, NIRAS-LTS International has gone from strength to strength, and the 2018 integration/merger with NIRAS Development Consulting enabled us to build on this and position as a truly global company. We often look to our rich past to help guide how best to address core issues in development such as economics, capacity, policy, governance, empowering the poorest. We combine this with current thinking, putting experience and innovation together into practice and making it work. We are known as a real “do-tank”, a leader in making change happen. We take pride in achieving real impact in line with our mission. Now, as part of the NIRAS Group, we can grow that impact, with a committed and professional team of staff (many of whom are shareholders in NIRAS) and an extensive international network of offices and experience. Today, our highly motivated and qualified teams continue to deliver value for money to our clients, assisting them to meet their goals and achieve impact by offering cross-cutting analysis, stimulating thinking and effective, knowledge-based, solutions. LTS' Managing Director is Paddy Abbot. A Director since 2007, Paddy became Managing Director in January 2009. He started his career by setting up an environmental NGO with friends back in 1987, which brought the concept of people and forests to schools and homes in the UK through educational programmes, film and popular publicity. In the subsequent years, he built-up field experience in the areas of ecology, socio-economics, and organisational development and supported institutional strengthening at local and national levels. Paddy remains passionate about development and the environment and he now combines a company management role with consultancy work. This consultancy focuses on supporting monitoring and evaluation processes for a range of clients and delivering institutional assessments and policy analyses, particularly in the context of environmental change
