Chris Eldridge has been working and researching with several NGOs in the fields of development, climate change, environmental issues and emergencies in Africa and Asia for over 30 years. His research focused initially on developing participatory methods to investigate responses by rural households to drought. More recently it has broadened into linking behavior-influence methods developed by the public, private and third sectors in high-, middle- and low- income countries with studies in the behavioral and related sciences. He is currently based at the Yunus Center at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand, where he is developing an initiative entitled ‘ThinkFluence’ - thinking about, leveraging and linking influences on behavior