Evan Fraser

Evan is Professor in Global Food Security at the University of Guelph in Canada, but continues to contribute to the work of CCCEP.


Piers Forster

Piers is Professor of Physical Climate Change,  Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award holder and Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds. Biography Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder (2011-present) Professor of Physical Climate Change, University of Leeds (2008-present) Roberts Research Fellow/ Reader, University of Leeds (2005-2008) NERC Advanced Research […]


David Mkwambisi

David is Associate Professor of Environmental Sustainability in the Department of Natural Resources Management at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi. He has a PhD and MSc in Environment and Development from the Universities of Leeds and East Anglia respectively. He also obtained a Diploma and BSc in Agriculture from the University of Malawi. In […]


Sarah Colenbrander

Sarah is a researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, working closely with networks of grassroots organisations and municipal authorities on financing incremental upgrading and basic services. In particular, she supports SDI and the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights to establish innovative partnerships with private actors and secure access to international development assistance. […]


Andy Challinor

Andy Challinor

Andy is Professor of Climate Impacts at Leeds university, in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science of the School of Earth and Environment. His research focuses principally on using climate modelling and process studies to understand food production and food security, treatments of uncertainty and managing risk, and climate-resilient pathways and adaptation. Andy is […]


Marta Bruno Soares

Marta Bruno Soares

Marta joined the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds  in December 2012 as a research fellow. She recently secured a Met Office University Academic Fellowship. She is a PI on a H2020 project ‘Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, OLive and Durum wheat food systems’ (2017-2021) and a PI in […]


Wändi Bruine de Bruin

Wändi Bruine de Bruin

Wändi is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science, University of Southern California at Price School of Public Policy. Background Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin is also affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy and Centre for Climate and Energy Decision Making, The RAND Corporation, and the University of […]


Frin Bale

Frin Bale

Frin holds an EPSRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, with joint appointment across the faculties of Engineering (Energy Research Institute) and Environment (Sustainability Research Institute). She is a member of the Centre for Integrated Energy Research. Previously, Frin was a research fellow on the City Energy Futures project, an interdisciplinary project bringing together mathematicians, computer simulation scientists, engineers and […]


Ben Groom

Ben Groom is an applied economist whose main research focus is on intergenerational equity and social discounting for long-term public projects, such as those relating to climate change and biodiversity conservation. Ben also does empirical work and applied theory on agricultural development and adaptation to climate change, deforestation and biodiversity economics. Background Ben studied a […]


Ajay Gajanan Bhave

Ajay joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in September 2014. His research focuses on climate change adaptation in water resources, stakeholder perceptions and decision-making approaches. … read more »