The Oxford Climate Society is proud to be supported in its activities by distinguished climate experts. Our advisors connect us to the interdisciplinary climate debate happening in and outside Oxford and assist us in facilitating world-class events and projects.

Members of the OCS Advisory Board

Professor Myles Allen (Senior Member)
Professor Allen is one of the world's leading climate scientists and is currently lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. He is a Professor of Geosystem Science and Leader of the Environmental Change Institute's Climate Research Programme.

Professor Jim Hall
Professor Hall is Director of the University's Environmental Change Institute. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a member of the UK Independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation. His researches focuses upon management of climate-related risks in infrastructure systems.

Dr Friederike Otto
Dr Otto is Deputy Director of the University's Environmental Change Institute. She's a leading expert in extreme weather research and on the attribution of such events to climate change. She also leads and coordinates the climate modelling project climateprediction.net.

Dr Thomas Hale
Dr Hale is an Associate Professor in Global Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. His research investigates how we can manage transnational problems effectively and fairly, and he has been named one of the top 30 climate thinkers and doers of the moment.

Dr Radhika Khosla
Dr Khosla is the Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and a Senior Researcher at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment. Her research focuses on the linkages between energy and climate change in rapidly urbanizing environments.

Professor Philip Stier
Professor Stier is Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Department of Physics where he heads the Climate Processes Group in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics and researches physical climate processes. He is also the Academic Convenor of the Oxford Climate Research Network.

Professor Henry Shue
Professor Shue is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is one of the leading political philosophers tackling issues of justice arising in international climate negotiations.

Professor Helen Johnson
Professor Johnson is an Associate Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding large scale ocean dynamics, with a particular focus on the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

Dr Lisa Schipper
Dr Schipper is an Environmental Social Science Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute researching the drivers of social vulnerability to climate change and natural hazards in developing countries, and the role that adaptation can play in reducing that vulnerability.

Dr Debbie Hopkins
Dr Hopkins is a Department Research Lecturer at the University of Oxford's Transport Studies Unit. She has worked with the New Zealand Ministry of Transport in the past, and currently investigates the social dimensions of climate change, socio-technical transitions, and mobility.

Dr James Painter
James Painter is a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute. His main research interests are the portrayals of climate change in legacy, digital-born and social media around the world, and environmental communication in general.

Mr. Bart Ashton
Bart Ashton is the Domestic Bursar at Lady Margaret Hall. He is responsible for operations, commercial activities and works within the college, and has been a key member of support of OCS, especially with the Climate Action Plan. 

Photo sources: Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford), Centre for Policy Research, Department of Physics (University of Oxford), CIED, Lady Margaret Hall (University of Oxford), Private