About Us

Kate Lonsdale has worked on adaptation to a changing climate as a researcher, research coordinator, trainer, facilitator, consultant, mentor, evaluator and in an advisory capacity for over 25 years.

Her roles have involved both developed and developing country contexts and she has lead and managed projects in a range of settings including civil society, academia and government policy and within organizations that aim to create a bridge between these different sectors. Kate is experienced in designing and facilitating participatory research processes, workshops and events.

Kate has a PhD in water management and a Postgrad diploma in facilitating organisational change. She was the 2012 Victorian Centre for Climate Adaptation Research (VCCCAR) International Visiting Fellow in Melbourne focussing on how to build effective state policy-research collaborations for climate change. Kate currently has a 0.5 role at University of Leeds as one of two UK Research and Innovation champions for the Strategic Priority funded UK Climate Resilience Programme. This involves working with academics, policy makers and practitioners to understand research and innovation gaps and opportunities, shaping the £19m research programme, enhancing connections between funded projects and liaising with target audiences to ensure outputs are relevant and usable.

Doogie has worked in sustainable development for over 25 years with the last 19 focusing specifically upon climate change resilience. He is a global leader on developing and applying metrics for measuring and improving the adaptative capacity of organisations and systems of organisations (e.g. sectors). Since 2003 Doogie’s focus has been upon understanding how to accelerate the use of data that leads to meaningful actions. He played a central role in the acclaimed EU-funded ESPACE Project addressing behavioural & organisational change management, and climate change strategy. He became a consultant in 2008 as Founding Director of the first iteration of Climate Sense.

A member of the core team that developed the PACT framework (now rebranded CaDD - www.cadd.global), he works across private, public and civil society organisations; ranging from local authorities and national policy makers through to infrastructure management companies, multinational corporations and international development organisations. Supporting individuals, organisations and systems of organisations through their change challenges he optimises the use of climate and risk data in producing climate-informed decision-making.

Doogie was the UK principle expert in developing ISO 14090 (2019), the first ever international standard on climate change resilience. He sits on the BSI Adaptation to Climate Change Committee, and is very active in developing standards on adaptation at the organisational, national, European and global level.

Doogie also develops and delivers many of our training materials.

John Dora is our Technical Lead. As well as his expertise in infrastructure and adaptation, John is a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey and an accomplished lecturer, teaching at the Universities of Birmingham and Surrey. He has thirty-nine years’ experience in managing infrastructure, including flood risk management and asset management of railway structures.

John is the global lead for adaptation for the International Standards Organisations (ISO) and was the Convener (Chair) for the group that drafted ISO 14090 – the first international standard dedicated to adaptation to climate change. As a prominent international expert on climate change adaptation, his clients have included the World Bank, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and CEN/CENELEC, the European Standards’ organisations.

John is frequently invited to advise upon and participate in events on infrastructure resilience matters, for example in running a rail climate resilience workshop for the World Bank in Delhi in 2018, running the London workshops, and assisting the Beijing workshops on rail adaptation for the International Union of Railways (UIC) in April and June 2017.

John frequently chairs discussion sessions, such as at the 2018 COP24 (the annual UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties), the Flood and Coast Conference in Telford and for the Construction Industry Research and Information Association’s (CIRIA) Infrastructure Resilience series. At December 2019's COP 25 in Madrid, John presented on ISO Standards, and acted as Adaptation Advisor to UIC's Secretary General M. François Davenne. He has also been the Chair of the UK’s Infrastructure Operators’ Adaptation Forum since its inception in 2012.

Grace has a BSc. in biology and mathematics, a MSc. in environmental protection and sustainability and a PGCE in secondary science education. She brings 23 years experience in environmental protection within the Environment Agency and has worked in the water industry private sector. Having taught in a large comprehensive school she now teaches adults, running programs and workshops to support people through personal change.

She is experienced in environmental infrastructure planning and regulatory frameworks, in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. Strategic thinking and evidence led sustainable decision making has been central to her work.

She has led large multidisciplinary technical teams with diverse portfolios including waste and water regulation, asset management planning, climate change adaptation, biodiversity and agriculture.

Through infrastructure projects and policy framework development, she has worked across the public and private sector and collaborated with local authorities, NGOs and industry focus groups.

Alastair has over 35 years’ experience in strategic investment, management, and business governance. Since 2005 as Managing Director of an international forestry management organisation and from 2012 as a consultant advising on direct investment, asset management and valuation, corporate governance, and due diligence.

Alastair’s focus remains strategy, risk management, compliance, and corporate governance; that focusses on and manages long term commercial and sustainability objectives in a changing climate.

He served for five years as Chair of the UK forestry body responsible for promoting industry wide Health & Safety (FISA) and latterly until 2021 as President of the UK’s Institute of Chartered Foresters. He holds an MSc in Forestry & Land Management from Oxford University.

Nick has a background of leading organisational development consultancy for international natural resource management within complex commercial, social, environmental and climate sensitive environments. He now works with a wider range of clients addressing climate and other long term sustainability challenges; government, infrastructure operators, construction, manufacturing, international trade and services companies. He has supported clients in: Europe; South, East and Central Asia; Africa; Australia and USA.

He is a specialist in CaDD analysis of organisational capacity to address climate and other sustainability challenges. He facilitates decision systems analysis to identify the high impact intervention points in systems that will address barriers to complex systemic change that addresses climate and other sustainability challenges. He also works closely with Tim Reeder in developing Adaptation Pathways to aid decision making for uncertain climate futures. Nick is also a qualified executive coach working with business leaders who include corporate responsibility and sustainability outcomes in their objectives.

Tim Reeder is our Lead Technical Adviser. He is a world-renowned thought leader and practitioner in strengthening decision making for uncertain climate futures. He pioneered the Adaptation Pathways approach in protecting London from sea level rise as Project Scientist for the Thames Estuary 2100 Project. He now advises on use of the Adaptation Pathways approach in Europe, USA, Australia, Central Asia and Africa.

Tim is a contributing author to the IPCC 4th assessment report and the UKCP09 projections report. He is also Advisor to the London Climate Change Partnership. Tim has written several papers on climate change uncertainty and decision making and continues to contribute to climate change adaptation practice and policy world-wide.

Iain is our Director of IT and is developer of our CaDD Explorer Software and Database (www.cadd.global). Iain provides advice and expertise to our clients and to our team using the CaDD Software and its data.

Iain has the rare ability to turn concepts into logic, logic into data, and data into useful information. With more than 35 years of experience in IT and Database development with organisations such as JP Morgan, Reuters and Barclays Bank, as well as a number of successful e-commerce related businesses, Iain’s passion for innovation ensures we are always ahead of the game.