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)
Kathryn Brown, Committee on Climate Change
Liz Bergère, DEFRA
Jonathon Gascoigne, Centre for Disaster Protection
Ben Smith, ARUP
Professor Albert Klein Tank, Director Met Office Hadley Centre
Professor Rowan Sutton, University of Reading /National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
Professor Paul Bates, University of Bristol
Professor Nick Pidgeon, Cardiff University
Professor Lindsay Beevers, Heriot-Watt University
Professor Georgina Endfield, University of Liverpool
Professor Suraje Dessai, University of Leeds (co-Champion)
Dr Kate Lonsdale, University of Leeds (co-Champion)
Rob Knowles, Welsh Government
Dr Tom Russon, Scottish Government
Dr Sari Kovats, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Joanna Teuton, NHS Health Scotland
Kristian James, Public Health Wales
Dr Harriet Orr, Environment Agency
Member (to be notified), Northern Ireland Government
Member (to be notified), Health Sector Representative, Northern Ireland