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	King’s College London	Professor of Environment, Society and Climate
Prof Julie Barnett	University of Manchester	PhD Researcher, Climate Change Trainer and Communicator
Prof Frans Berkhout	University of Bath	Executive Director
Louise Blythe	Climate Change Committee	Senior Analyst – People and Net Zero
Sandra Bogelein	Anglian Water	Group Chief Sustainability Officer
Claire Chappell	Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government	Head of Climate Behaviour Change & Engagement
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
Sophia David	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)	Senior Policy Advisor
Kat Hamilton	Force of Nature	Executive Director
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)
Kate Lonsdale	Climate Sense
Helen Meech	The Climate Coalition	Executive Director
Ben Miller	UKRI	UKRI ESRC Representative
Jonny Wates	Wates Group	Director

Previous Advisory Board members (2020-25)

Prof Corinne Le Quere FRS (Chair)	Climate Change Committee	Former Tyndall Centre Director
Mike Asquith	Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale University	Director
Andy Brown	BBC	Culture & Change, BBC Transformation, Co-Chair BBC RAISED (Real Action in Socio-Economic Diversity)
Kathryn Brown	UK Committee on Climate Change (Adaptation Committee)	Head of Adaptation
Siobhan Browne	Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)	Senior Science Lead
Lucy Corfield	Welsh Government	Head of Decarbonisation
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