Toril-Iren Pedersen is Assistant Director in the Department of Partnerships and Shared Prosperity and heads the Section for Governance and Transparency at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). She was formerly the Policy Director for the Tax and Development within the same agency. Prior to joining Norad she worked at the UN, focusing on a range of governance and public management issues including support to local governments, expenditure and revenue management, land governance and gender in public administrations.