The Centre for Carbon Measurement is delighted to have the following three people acting as our external advisors and spokespeople for the three key themes – Climate Data; Carbon Markets and Accounting; and Low Carbon Technologies.
Prof. Alan O’Neill
Professor Alan O’Neill began his research career at The Met Office where he led a research group on the use of satellite data to understand the large-scale circulation of the stratosphere. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Washington, Seattle, he joined the University of Reading as Director of the UK Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme, a post he held concurrently with a Professorship in the Department of Meteorology.
He was the founding director of the NERC-supported Data Assimilation Research Centre, an institution that synthesised a wide variety of satellite data to obtain an accurate global picture of the climate system. He then became the founding director of the NERC National Centre for Earth Observation, a multi-disciplinary organization that exploits data from Earth-orbiting satellites to understand how the Earth system works, to provide information to policy makers on climate and environmental change and to work with the commercial sector to develop applications of satellite data for commercial and societal benefit. He has been the lead scientist in founding, in partnership with industry, the new Facility for Climate and Environmental Monitoring from Space (CEMS) at the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC), Harwell.
Alan has served as a Vice-President of The Royal Meteorological Society, and as Co-Chair of the SPARC project (Stratospheric Processes and their role in Climate), a project of the World Climate Research Programme. He is a member of the Executive Board of the NERC and a non-executive director of ISIC. He is currently serving as Chair of the Earth Sciences Advisory Committee of the European Space Agency.
Lois Guthrie
Lois Guthrie is Executive Director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and Technical Director to the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). She is responsible for CDSB’s work to develop a framework for climate reporting in mainstream annual reports and for the development of technical aspects of IIRC’s work.
She joined the Carbon Disclosure Project in 2004 after a career in international taxation and social security at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Zurich Financial Services. She studied environmental policy at the Open University and holds an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice.
Peter Head
Peter is a champion for developing global practice that demonstrates that the way we invest public and private money in the built environment could be made very much more effective if the public and private sector adopted sustainable development principles. He is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognised world leader in major bridges, advanced composite technology and now in sustainable development in cities and regions.
He has won many awards for his work including the Award of Merit of IABSE, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal, Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind, honorary doctorate in engineering at Bristol University, where he is a visiting Professor in Sustainable Systems Engineering, visiting professor in eco-cities at Westminster University and the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for a lifetime contribution to the well-being of the Nation through environmental innovation.
He joined Arup in 2004 to create and lead their planning and integrated urbanism team directing work on the Dongtan Eco City Planning project which was voted by Chinese developers in 2005 as the most influential development project in China. He subsequently became an advisor to the Singapore Government on their plans for greening the city and the economy.
In 2008 he was named by the Guardian Newspaper as one of 50 people that could ‘save the planet’ and on of 30 global eco-heroes by Time magazine.
In April 2011 he left Arup to set up The Ecological Sequestration Trust, a Charity which is bringing together the world’s top scientists, engineers , economists, financiers and other specialists to quickly plan, design and implement regional scale demonstration projects ,in the world’s fastest growing economies, using low carbon urban-rural development models which are energy, water and food secure.