Andrew Fitzgibbon

Andrew “Fitz” Fitzgibbon is the Director of the SEI Oxford Centre. He joined SEI in 2025 after a three-decade career working with non-governmental organizations to address conservation and sustainable development issues.

Prior to his arrival at SEI, he worked for 16 years with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Norway, supporting partners from Latin America, Africa and Asia, and engaging with the organization’s global network to address climate and environment issues. This work involved building partnerships and promoting inclusive and innovative ways to address matters such as managing natural resources, making a clean-energy transition, reducing plastic pollution, and adapting to climate change.

Prior to that chapter of his career, he spent 15 years in East and Southern Africa, where he worked on humanitarian responses in Somalia and Rwanda and on longer-term development issues. In Malawi, he worked with Oxfam on programs to address the quality of education and promote sustainable livelihoods. In Tanzania, he helped Concern Worldwide transform its country program to adopt a focus on water, environmental health and sustainable livelihoods, and to use a rights-based approach.

He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Agricultural Environment and Development; Resource Management from the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia; and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) (with honours) degree in Geography and History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.