Niamh brings skills in research and project management to a wide range of technical development sectors including disaster response, cash transfers and social protection.

Niamh Cahill-Billings is a Senior Consultant at Triple Line with over 10 years of experience delivering climate resilience, urban development, and disaster risk reduction programmes across Africa and globally. She specialises in mixed methods research, urban diagnostics, policy analysis, and project management, with a strong focus on climate adaptation and urban heat in fragile and urban contexts. Her recent work includes leading city-level climate diagnostics in Ethiopia and Somalia, technical support and project management in developing Ghana’s Resilient Infrastructure strategy, developing a cooling energy roadmap to 2050 for Quezon City, and supporting feasibility and engineering design studies for Tanzania’s Sustainable Urban Food Investment Program. She brings expertise in integrating quantitative survey data with GIS and hazard modelling, strengthening evidence-informed urban planning, and developing practical policy recommendations. Her technical strengths include survey design and implementation, focus group facilitation, key informant interviews and coding and extracting findings, literature synthesis, stakeholder engagement, and MEL advisory support.

Niamh holds a MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Development Management, and a BA from The George Washington University where she studied International Affairs, Sociocultural Anthropology and Spanish.