Charlotte Duncan is a Deputy Head and Senior Governance Adviser at the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with over 20 years of development and diplomatic experience. As Deputy Head, Charlotte currently provides overall leadership to the Girls’ Education Department on a broad range of issues including strategy, communications and parliamentary engagement, results, operations and finance. Charlotte also leads on innovative finance in education. As a Senior Governance Adviser and as Deputy Head in Mozambique and DRC, Charlotte has led teams in FCDO and formally DFID to deliver programmes in complex and fragile settings. She has broad and deep policy and programme expertise in governance including on Anti-Corruption and illicit finance, public sector reform, elections, and justice reform. She has also led Human Development Teams in Nepal and Malawi. Charlotte previously worked for UNDP and in the European Parliament. She is fluent in French and speaks Portuguese. She has a BA In International Relations with French and a MA in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies.