
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 |
Louise Blythe | BBC | Culture & Change, BBC Transformation, Co-Chair BBC RAISED (Real Action in Socio-Economic Diversity) |
Anne Marie Bennoy, Victoria Black, Sophia David | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) | Senior Policy Advisor |
Andy Brown | Anglian Water | Group Chief Sustainability Officer |
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 |
Jonny Wates | Wates Group | Director |
Ben Miller | UKRI | UKRI ESRC Representative |
Helen Meech | The Climate Coalition | Executive Director |
Sandra Bogelein | Climate Change Committee | Senior Analyst – People and Net Zero |
Prof Julie Barnett | University of Bath | Professor of Health Psychology, Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change |
Previous Advisory Board members (2020-23)
Prof Corinne Le Quere FRS (Chair) | Climate Change Committee | Former Tyndall Centre Director |
Alex Plant | Anglian Water | Regulation Director |
Amy Mount | Greener UK network | Head of the Greener UK network of 13 NGOs working for a ‘green Brexit’ |
Kathryn Brown | UK Committee on Climate Change (Adaptation Committee) | Head of Adaptation |
Mike Asquith | Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University | Director |
Prof Anthony Leiserowitz | Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University | Director |
Prof Sir Robert Watson FRS | IPBES, IPCC & DEFRA | IPBES Chair, former IPCC chair, DEFRA Chief Scientist and World Bank Chief Scientist |
Prof Tony Leiserowitz | Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University | Director |
Prof. Sam Fankhauser | Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford | Research Director |
Rachel Gray | WRAP | Behaviour Change Manager |
Sharon McCracken | IKEA | Sustainability Life at Home Leader |
Siobhan Browne | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) | Senior Science Lead |