Director and Co-Founder, Dr Timothy Clack is the Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR). His research focuses on certain responses to climate and environmental change, including conflict and migration. Prior to and alongside his academic career, he has delivered a number of senior and specialist roles for the UK Cabinet Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Stabilisation Unit.

Senior Research Associate, Lieutenant General (ret.) Richard Nugee is the Chair of the Secretariat Advisory Board to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Climate and Security. He is also a Senior Advisor to the International Military Council on Climate Security (IMCCS). Formerly the Climate Change Policy and Sustainability Lead for the UK Ministry of Defence, Richard published the ground breaking, ‘Climate Change and Sustainability Report’ in 2021. This report created the road map for the UK Ministry of Defence response to climate change security impacts. Supporting delivery of this agenda, he is engaged with a number of sustainability tech initiatives and policy advisory panels.

Senior Research Associate and Co-Founder, Louise Selisny is a Research Affiliate with the University of Oxford and collaborates with Princeton University’s Global Systemic Risk Group on agricultural security. She is also an Expert Participant of the International Military Council on Climate Security (IMCCS). With experience across UK MOD, the United Nations, and Amnesty International, Louise currently supports policy development within a number of defence and security forums, including the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Climate & Security where she is the Secretariat Coordinator.

Senior Research Associate and Co-Founder, Dr Ziya Meral is a Lecturer in International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Ziya is also a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI), a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Navy’s Strategic Studies Centre and sits on advisory boards of multiple initiatives and institutions, including the British Institute Ankara.

Senior Research Associate, Thammy Evans is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the GeoTech Center of the Atlantic Council and a member of its Global China Hub. She is also a member of the Council for Security Risk’s Alliance for Ecological Security. Having worked for NATO, the UN, the UK MOD, private sector, and various NGOs, her career spans systems sustainability, security sector reform, gender and security, public information and political advising. She has worked around the world, and published with Carnegie Europe, Chatham House, British Army Review, Modern Asian Studies, and Small Wars Journal.

Senior Research Associate, Tom Fletcher is Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. He was previously the foreign policy adviser to three UK Prime Ministers (2007-11) and the UK’s Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-15). More recently, he was a Visiting Professor at New York University and chaired the International Advisory Council of the Creative Industries Federation. Tom led a review of British diplomacy for the UK Foreign Office in 2016 and on the future of the United Nations for the UN Secretary General in 2017.

Senior Research Associate, Alistair Harris is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of social development consultancy ARK Group has extensive experience of leading, designing, managing, delivering and evaluating complex programming for governmental partners (UK, US, Canada, Australia, Japan, European governments), the EU and UN agencies throughout MENA, West, North and East Africa, South and South East Asia, as well as Europe. He has managed over $150m of programming over the last 15+ years, in some of the world’s most complex operating environments including Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Lebanon and Indonesia. An Associate Fellow at RUSI, he was awarded an OBE in 2013.

Senior Research Associate, Faisa Loyaan is a policy researcher with over two decades’ experience in policy dialogue processes and practices related to peacebuilding, reconciliation, gender, and climate change. She has led policy dialogue in partnership with various UN agencies in Somalia, including UNSOM, UNICEF, UNDP, ODI and IGAD. For the ODI/ FCDO, she has led on the mapping of institutional capacities across Somalia to access, manage and monitor financing for climate adaptation and resilience. Faisa is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre, Oxford University. She holds a MA in Gender Analysis and Development along with higher qualifications in linguistics and education.

Senior Research Associate, Dr Duncan Depledge is a Lecturer in Geopolitics & Security at Loughborough University, an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and a Visiting Fellow to the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre. As well as having an interdisciplinary academic background, Duncan has extensive experience of working with government, parliamentarians, think tanks, international organisations and militaries. Duncan’s latest research tackles the implications of climate change for the future character of military operations and war. In 2022, he was awarded an ESRC New Investigator Grant for a project titled ‘Net Zero Militaries (NETZMIL): Retaining Operational Effectiveness in a Low Carbon World’.

Research Associate, Major Tristan Burwell commissioned into the 9th/12th Royal Lancers, he deployed to Afghanistan as an Afghan Army mentor in 2011 and as the Brigade Reconnaissance Force Liaison Officer in 2013. He is currently an Exchange Officer in the Italian Army’s Acqui Division HQ. He has a MA in Global Diplomacy from SOAS and a Master’s in International Strategic Military Studies from the University of Turin. Awarded the British Army’s Farmington Fellowship, he researched the role of non-state actors in processes of security sector reform at the University of Oxford.

Research Associate, Ella Fleming is a Senior Analyst at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). She has worked in defence and security for 5 years and has expertise in socio-cultural and regional analysis, intelligence analysis, and gender in the armed forces. Ella has recently finished a Visiting Fellowship at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) working on the future of African security and decline of UK influence. She recently completed the first year of part-time DPhil studies on climate change and conflict at the University of Oxford.

Research Associate, Matt Ince is the Associate Director of Strategic Intelligence at Dragonfly. Prior to joining Dragonfly, Matt was UK MOD’s lead for international climate security policy and strategy. He has previously worked at the UK Cabinet Office where he led an analytical team responsible for producing strategic assessments on emerging global risks. He has also worked for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the UN’s migration agency (IOM).

Research Associate, Dr Alex Tasker is a Senior Lecturer at Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London and a Visiting Researcher (Conflict and Health Research Group) at King’s College London. Alex is a dual-trained veterinary surgeon and development anthropologist whose research focuses on One Health explorations of human-animal-environmental relationships in complex settings, including forced migration, climate uncertainty, and conflict. Alex also works as a deep Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the UK Ministry of Defence advising on One Health and security, and is a member of several cross-Whitehall Working Groups.

Research Associate, Christophe Hodder is the first Climate Security Advisor to a Peacebuilding mission globally. Focusing on Somalia he seeks to support the UN Mission to implement its mandate around climate analysis and climate risk mainstreaming across peacebuilding and security approaches. He also supports the implementation of the Nexus coordination brining humanitarian, development and peacebuilding partners together to mitigate and adapt to climate shocks such as flooding and drought. Finally he works with the systems of Government to strengthen climate programming and policy.

Research Associate, Katarina Kertysova is a Climate Security Policy Officer in the Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO. Katarina is also a Policy Fellow at the European Leadership Network (ELN) and a Global Fellow of Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan and Polar Institutes. Her research focuses on NATO’s climate security agenda, military innovation and decarbonisation, Arctic geopolitics and the climate-nuclear nexus. Katarina participated in the NATO 2030 Reflection Process as a member of the NATO 2030 Young Leaders Group. Her policy recommendations directly contributed to the NATO 2030 Agenda and subsequent NATO policy material. She provides policy support to the Slovak MOD on addressing climate-related security risks.

Research Associate, Major Matt Stott commissioned into the Royal Air Force Supply and Movements Branch in 2002 and transferred to the Royal Logistic Corps in 2011. He has deployed to over 30 countries and served operationally in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. Currently the Combat Service Support Military Advisor at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), he is focused on the Support & Sustainability Programme as well as undertaking a MOD Climate Change and Sustainability Directorate-sponsored PhD investigating the impact of decarbonisation on operational effectiveness.

Research Associate, Paul Larcey, is Co-Director of the Global Systemic Risk Faculty at Princeton University. He worked initially in a corporate research environment, followed by venture capital, before moving into global industrial sectors at board and senior levels. He has been closely involved in funding strategies for major projects (public and private), primarily in the technology, engineering and infrastructure sectors, and risk analysis in challenging environments. His areas of research interest are understanding resilience in systems (socio-political, physical and environmental), the fragility of new technologies, and the development of methodologies, frameworks, and a cross-disciplinary understanding of systemic risk (from academic and practitioner perspectives). He has studied engineering, materials science and finance at London, Oxford, and Cambridge.

Research Associate, Signe E. Kossmann is a doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge working on the politics of action and the future of conflict with a focus on the Arctic region and Outer Space. She has worked for the International Security Programme at Chatham House on areas relating to conflict, security and humanitarian policy, including climate-related security challenges. Signe has been a consultant to several organisations, including Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on the 'Environment of Peace' Initiative and the Centre for Information Resilience. Previously, she represented European youth and co-developed recommendations for the Independent Progress Study to UN Security Council Resolution 2250. Signe advises Chatham House as a member of the Panel of Young Advisors and the Centre for European Policy Studies as Young Thinker.

Research Associate, Samuel Jardine, is the Head of Research at London Politica, as well as being a Consultant for RUSI’s Defence, Industries and Society programme, Senior Advisor for Luminint, and a RUSI Military Science’s Rising Stars programme mentee. He was previously a Research Fellow at both the Centre for Space Governance, and Open Lunar Foundation, and a Fellow of the Arctic Institute, Ecological Institute, and MiH-RCN hosted Arctic geopolitics program. He is a specialist in geopolitical risk and specifically the geopolitics, governance, and security of the Arctic, Antarctic, and space with a particular focus on strategic competition and climate conflict.

Research Intern, Logan Williams is a Master of Public Policy student at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Quantitative Economics, specializing in water markets and resource provision. While a student, Logan also worked as an intern at the U.S. Development Finance Corporation and completed a summer fellowship with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From his research and background, he is interested in climate change as it relates to national security and international conflict. Logan is a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy and will serve on fast attack submarines after his time at Oxford.

Research Intern, Nolwen Prince is an undergraduate student reading Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford. In addition, she works with Generation Climate Europe, the largest European coalition of youth-led networks on climate and environmental issues, to promote a deep rethinking of our economic system. She also writes articles for The Earthly, a student-run magazine which demystifies news about climate change and the environment, breaks down the science behind these issues, and highlights innovative solutions and reasons for hope.