LTS has a long history and substantial experience worldwide. Since 1973, we have provided professional and committed consultancy and project management services to support sustainable development in the public and private sectors across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. 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 REDD+, FLEGT, Climate Change, Monitoring and Evaluation, Water, Ecosystems