Dr Karl Mallon
Karl is director of Science and Systems at Climate Risk. He is a First Class Honours graduate in Physics and holds a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. Karl has worked in climate change mitigation, policy and technical analysis since 1991. He is editor and co-author of ‘Renewable Energy Policy and Politics: A Handbook for Decision Making’ published by Earthscan (London) and has worked with various international government and non-government organisations since 1997. He currently specializes in climate change impacts risk to local government, insurance, institutional investment and works with large corporations on opportunities for operation under carbon and climate constraints.

Dr Mark Hughes
Mark heads the Industry and Modelling Section of Climate Risk. He holds a doctorate in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge and a First Class Honours degree in Materials Engineering. Since 1999, he has been based in the field of energy storage and the environment under the auspices of a variety of research fellowships at the University of Cambridge and London Business School. During this time Mark has also worked on commercialisation and fund-raising for new technologies in the energy sector. In the past few years his work has focussed primarily on long-term strategy and modelling in the areas of energy, emissions, resources and infrastructure for the private, public and NGO sectors. Mark is also author of a range of peer-reviewed publications in the fields of energy and climate change in a variety of internationally distributed journals.

Sean Kidney
Sean has twenty five years’ experience as a social change strategist. He has been an advisor to governments, NGOs and pension fund providers, particularly in the areas of organisational development, marketing and communications and political analysis. Sean is the London-based Europe manager for Climate Risk Europe Ltd as well as the strategy and social marketing consultant to the EU’s new European Website on Integration. Sean has worked extensively with the pension fund sector on marketing and communications for which he has won a dozen Combined Major Superannuation Fund awards. His current focus is on climate change and the intersection between the interests of long-term capital and the progress of economic and social evolution.

Janice Wormworth
Janice is a technical researcher, writer and communications specialist for Climate Risk. Janice trained in Canada with a BSc in Biology and a Master’s degree in Journalism, she has worked as a science communicator for more than fifteen years with a major focus on climate change and energy issues. Janice’s media background encompasses work for public broadcasters in North America, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in research and production. Janice has worked with a variety of national and international non-government organizations in Australia, Europe and North America including the David Suzuki foundation. Janice is currently working on two book projects on climate change and biodiversity issues, to be published 2009.