The Steering Committee (SC) provides strategic advice to the Programme Board to support the programme objectives. In particular the Steering Committee should provide advice and recommendations to the Programme Board on:
- Alignment with cross-government departmental priorities
- User engagement and programme impact
- Opportunities for complementarity with other initiatives, both nationally and internationally
- Effective ways of research co-ordination and coherence
- Proposed scope and scientific content of calls and directly commissioned research
- Appropriate ways to monitor and evaluate the progress of the programme towards its purpose and goal
Membership
The current membership of the SPF UK Climate Resilience Steering Committee is:
Professor Jim Hall, University of Oxford (Chair)
Professor Albert Klein Tank, Director Met Office Hadley Centre
Alex Hicks, Welsh Government
David Mallon, The Scottish Government
Professor Frank Kee, Queen’s University
Professor Georgina Endfield, University of Liverpool
Dr Harriet Orr, Environment Agency
James Convery, DAERA NI
Dr Joanna Teuton, NHS Health Scotland
John Early, DAERA NI
Jonathon Gascoigne, Centre for Disaster Protection
Dr Kate Lonsdale, University of Leeds (co-Champion)
Kristian James, Public Health Wales
Professor Lindsay Beevers, Heriot-Watt University
Professor Nick Pidgeon, Cardiff University
Professor Paul Bates, University of Bristol
Richard Millar, UK Climate Change Committee
Professor Rowan Sutton, University of Reading /National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
Dr Sari Kovats, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Suraje Dessai, University of Leeds (co-Champion)
Dr Tom Russon, Scottish Government