Peter Newell is now Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He was awarded an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellowship to work on The Governance of Clean Development at the University of East Anglia.

He has worked on climate change issues for over 15 years and conducted research and policy work for the governments of the UK, Sweden and Finland as well as international organisations such as UNDP and GEF. He has previously worked for Climate Network Europe and Friends of the Earth UK, the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University), Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, Warwick University and FLACSO Argentina.

His climate-related publications include the recent books Climate Capitalism (CUP 2010) and Governing Climate Change (Routledge 2010), as well as Climate for Change: Non State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse (CUP 2000); The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (MacMillan 2000); The Business of Global Environmental Governance (MIT Press 2005), ‘Civil society, corporate accountability and the politics of climate change’, Global Environmental Politics 8(3), 2008; & 'Climate for Business: Global Warming, the State and Capital', Review of International Political Economy, 5(4), 1998.

  

Jon Phillips is Research Associate on The Governance of Clean Development project at the University of East Anglia.

Jon's current research focuses on the governance of clean energy in India, South Africa and at the global scale, including the governance of climate finance and carbon markets. He has research and advocacy experience with a number of NGOs and research institutions working on issues of global convergence, global environmental politics, youth volunteering and women's rights in the developing world. He also has experience of teaching and research in Tanzania, Liberia, India and South Africa.

Jon holds a Masters degree in Environment and Development from King’s College London, focused on issues of gender and development and the political economy of global environmental change, and including fieldwork in Liberia exploring the gendered governance of water supply through local social relations and international political networks. He also holds an undergraduate masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, where he conducted research on the biogeochemistry of past and present climates, including research into the chemistry of oceanic carbon sinks at the University of Washington.

For further information see Jon’s page on the DEV department website. Contact Jon if you would like further information about the project, working paper series or opportunities for collaboration: jon.phillips@uea.ac.uk

Lucy Baker began her PhD under the GCD project at the University of East Anglia in October 2008. Her research focuses on the governance of clean energy in South Africa.

Lucy has ten years of experience working for environment, development and human rights organisations as a policy officer, lobbyist and campaigner. This includes work with Oxfam, Amnesty International and most recently Bretton Woods Project. Her areas of expertise include the World Bank and energy sector reform; climate change financing; the environmental and social policies of international financial institutions; and human rights and accountability. She is affiliated to the Tyndall Centre and a member of the Development Studies Association. For further information and a list of selected NGO publications click here.

Lucy holds an undergraduate degree (MA Hons) in Spanish and French from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has spent time working in Latin America, Africa and Asia and is fluent in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
 

For more information about the project, working paper series and opportunities for collaboration, contact us.