Keynote Speakers
Dr. Asun Lera St. Clair
Philosopher and sociologist, is Climate Change Lead in DNV Group Research and Development, and Leading Researcher at the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). She has over 25 years of experience with designing and directing interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and user-driven and solutions-oriented research for global challenges in the interface between sustainable development and climate change. He currently works on identifying guidance and drivers of salience, credibility and legitimacy for the use of climate information in decision making, that is, climate services. Asun was Lead Author at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, member of the Board of Governors and Program Advisory Committee of the International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and has also served in UNFCCC and Future Earth Committees amongst others. Asun was member of the Board of Horizon Europe Mission on Climate Change Adaptation which drafted the scoping document that frames the Mission. Asun currently serves as project lead in the Technical Committee dedicated to climate change of Europe’s standardisation body, CEN CENELEC. This committee is maturing the first climate services standards.
Andy Stirling
Emeritus Professor in the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University, Honorary Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UCL and Visiting Professor in CWTS at Leiden University. A former co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre and other projects, his work has focused especially on issues of uncertainty, diversity and democracy in and around science and technology. In this, he has worked with many civil society, commercial and governmental organisations and served on many national and international advisory bodies. A Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Science, he presently serves on the Research Council of CIFAR and as a panel member for the 2029 UK Research Excellence Framework.
Amir Lebdioui
Director of the Technology and Industrialisation for Development (TIDE) Centre of the University of Oxford. His research focuses on green industrial policy and low carbon innovation, and biodiversity-based innovation models. His work has been published in World Development, Ecological Economics, Development and Change, the Journal of Technology Transfer, and the Review of International Political Economy. Amir also regularly advises governments and international institutions on green industrial policy strategies. His book ‘Survival of the Greenest’ (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is published open access.
