Mr. Alan Stanley, Senior Thematic Convenor has recently visited IID on 25th October 2011. He is from Institute of Development studies, University of Sussex, UK. Mr. Alan is the program manager of the project Mobilizing Knowledge for Development (MK4D) for which IID is collaborating with IDS. During his two-day visit he attended a long meeting with the members of IID and shared his views and suggestion about IID operation.