CAST Advisory Board

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 (2026)

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
Dr John Jamir Benzon Aruta	De La Salle University, Philippines	Associate Professor, Founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Psychology Research (The British Psychological Society & Wiley) & Founder and Inaugural Director for Sustainability Psychology and Planetary Health Research Laboratory (SPPHERE Lab)
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)