The Advisory Board provides invaluable external guidance and thought leadership to CAST, drawing on expertise from a range of sectors. It plays a crucial role in shaping and enhancing CAST’s research and activities, ensuring that we continue to drive meaningful change in the climate space.
Current Advisory Board members (2025)
| Prof Frans Berkhout (Chair) | King’s College London | Professor of Environment, Society and Climate |
| Zarina Ahmad | University of Manchester | PhD Researcher, Climate Change Trainer and Communicator |
| Prof Julie Barnett | University of Bath | Executive Director |
| Sandra Bogelein | Climate Change Committee | Senior Analyst – People and Net Zero |
| Andy Brown | Anglian Water | Group Chief Sustainability Officer |
| Louise Blythe | BBC | Culture & Change, BBC Transformation, Co-Chair BBC RAISED (Real Action in Socio-Economic Diversity) |
| Ian Christie | Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CUSP), University of Surrey | Associate Professor, Social Science and Ethics of Sustainable Development & Co-Investigator ACCESS and CUSP |
| Lucy Corfield | Welsh Government | Head of Decarbonisation |
| Anne Marie Bennoy, Victoria Black, Sophia David | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) | Senior Policy Advisor |
| Kat Hamilton | Force of Nature | Executive Director |
| Ben Miller | UKRI | UKRI ESRC Representative |
| Helen Meech | The Climate Coalition | Executive Director |
| Jonny Wates | Wates Group | Director |
Previous Advisory Board members (2020-23)
| Prof Corinne Le Quere FRS (Chair) | Climate Change Committee | Former Tyndall Centre Director |
| Mike Asquith | Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University | Director |
| Kathryn Brown | UK Committee on Climate Change (Adaptation Committee) | Head of Adaptation |
| Siobhan Browne | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) | Senior Science Lead |
| Prof. Sam Fankhauser | Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford | Research Director |
| Rachel Gray | WRAP | Behaviour Change Manager |
| Prof Anthony Leiserowitz | Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University | Director |
| Prof Tony Leiserowitz | Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University | Director |
| Sharon McCracken | IKEA | Sustainability Life at Home Leader |
| Amy Mount | Greener UK network | Head of the Greener UK network of 13 NGOs working for a ‘green Brexit’ |
| Alex Plant | Anglian Water | Regulation Director |
| Prof Sir Robert Watson FRS | IPBES, IPCC & DEFRA | IPBES Chair, former IPCC chair, DEFRA Chief Scientist and World Bank Chief Scientist |