Andrew Sudmant

Andrew is a Research Fellow at working under Professor Andy Gouldson on the Economics of Climate Smart Cities research program. At the Climate Smart Cities team program mini-Stern review studies are conducted by consulting with regional development authorities, national and municipal governments and partner universities to identify cost-effective climate change mitigation measures in cities. With […]


Kate Scott

Kate Scott

Kate holds a NERC (UK Natural Environment Research Council) Industrial Innovation Fellowship on implementing a climate compatible Industrial Strategy for the UK. Kate is developing methods to downscale global climate assessments for local-level decision making across sectors in order to facilitate the delivery of a climate compatible Industrial Strategy. The Industrial Strategy outlines the government’s […]


Katy Roelich

Katy Roelich

Katy is a University Academic Fellow in Climate Change and Energy Policy (which is a tenure track position leading to Associate Professor), jointly appointed between the School of Earth and Environment and the School of Civil Engineering. She co-leads the Energy and Climate Change Mitigation Research Group in SRI. Prior to this Katy was Senior Research Fellow at […]


Dan ONeill

Daniel O’Neill

Daniel is an Associate Professor in Environmental and Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds, and the current leader of the Economics and Policy for Sustainability Research Group. His research focuses on the changes that would be needed to achieve a sustainable economy within planetary boundaries, and the relationships between resource use and human well-being. One […]


Ralf Martin

Ralf is also a Research Fellow in Productivity and Innovation at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a member of CCCEP He is also: Assistant Professor at Imperial College Business School; Background Ralf has a PhD from LSE, an MSc in Econometrics & Mathematical Economics […]


Jon Lovett

Jon Lovett

Background Jon is based in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. Before coming to the University of Leeds in 2012, Jon spent six years at the University of Twente in the Netherlands where he led the Technology and Sustainable Development Group and the Institute of Governance Studies strategic research orientation on Energy, […]


Monirul Islam

  Environmental issues in fisheries and aquaculture Climate Change Biodiversity Water pollution Institutional and policy analysis Socio-economic analysis Current projects: Adaptation strategies and sustainable livelihoods: Addressing the impacts of climate variability and change on inland fishery-dependent people in Bangladesh. Funded by IFS, Sweden Contribution of Bangladeshi fisheries sector to greenhouse gas emission and suggestions for […]


Paola Sakai

Paola is an enthusiastic social scientist who is currently a research fellow at the University of Leeds, where she obtained her doctorate degree. She obtained a BSc in Business Administration in ITESM (Mexico) and second BSc in Economics in UNAM (Mexico). She also has a Diploma in Stock Finance (ITAM) and another one in Budget […]


Stephen Hall

Stephen Hall

Stephen currently holds an EPSRC fellowship investigating deep decarbonisation of cities. He is interested in the links between low-carbon innovation, economics, energy, climate change and society. In particular he is interested in the role of cities and regions in delivering infrastructures compatible with low-carbon futures. Steve has undertaken international work on urban emissions modelling, infrastructure […]


Håvard Haarstad

Havard Haarstad

Background Håvard Haarstad is Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He received his PhD from the same University in 2009, and had a postdoctoral research fellowship there between 2010 and 2014. His research concerns the governance of energy and natural resources, particularly governance of low-carbon energy transitions. He has worked for […]