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Our success depends on people joining together for a shared goal. No single discipline has all the answers needed to advance a more sustainable future, and we have found that many exciting new ideas come from dedicated collaboration between different fields – legal and otherwise. That is why our team is led by academics with a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds. Together, we are committed to producing high-quality, agenda-setting research.

Nick Young 
Research Fellow in Sustainable Business Law

Climate Policy Hub

Bhavya Gupta 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Net Zero Governance Systems)

Helena Wright 
Executive Director (Oxford Climate Policy Monitor)

Associates

Anna Christie 
Departmental Lecturer in Law and Finance, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Honorary Research Associates

Research Students

Gaia Lisi
DPhil Law (Part-time), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Youcef Rahmani 
DPhil Candidate focusing on sustainability service providers

Research assistants and consultants

  • Andrea Bacilieri
    Consultant
    Techno-economic Modelling.
  • Hrishikesh Barman
    Consultant
    Project: Building novel climate greenwashing databases using machine learning.
  • Thalia Chaves
    Consultant
    Greenwashing database
  • Sarah Chow
    Consultant
    Oxford Carbon and Climate Advertising Library.
  • Shirin Ermis
    Consultant
    Climate Damages Analysis.
  • Sam Faroqui
    Consultant
    Project: Building novel climate greenwashing databases using manual methods.
  • Rose Hansen
    Research Assistant
    Archival research.
  • Stella Levantesi
    Consultant
    Project: Fossil fuel industry and climate risks.
  • Meghana (Meg) Patakota
    Consultant
    Project: Climate Litigation AI Resource Assistant (CLARA).
  • Jake Rutherford
    Consultant
    Project: Climate Litigation AI Resource Assistant (CLARA).
  • Rupert Way
    Consultant
    Techno-economic Modelling.

Alumni

  • Naina Agrawal-Hardin
    Visiting Student
  • Blaire Bernstein
    Consultant
    Project: Using law to address international state fossil fuel financing.
  • Cheryl Cheung
    Consultant
    Project: Exploring potential applications of Victim Compensation Funds in the context of U.S. climate litigation.
  • Vanessa Fetter
    Consultant
    Project: Litigation opportunities for addressing investor-facing climate greenwashing.
  • Benjamin Hitchcock
    Consultant 
    Project: Building novel climate greenwashing databases using manual methods.
  • Lara Ibrahim
    Research Assistant (DPhil Candidate, Law, Oxford)
    Project: Climate change and international human rights.
  • Sindi Kuçi
    Consultant
    Project: Litigation opportunities in the carbon offset industry.
  • Kuberan Kumaresan
    Consultant
    Project: Potential climate damages litigation in Southeast Asia.
  • Guilherme De Magalhaes
    Research Assistant (Master of Law and Finance Candidate, Oxford)
    Project: Identifying opportunities for climate litigation financing.
  • Sol Meckievi
    Consultant (SLP)
    Project: Climate change and human rights.
  • Gastón Medici-Colombo
    Consultant (SLP)
    Project: Climate change and human rights.
  • Patrick Hegarty Morrish
    Research Assistant (DPhil Student in History, Trinity College, Oxford)
    Project: Mobile pastoralists and the international legal regime in a climate of change: case studies for strategic litigation.
  • Lucy Temple
    Consultant
    Project: State of climate loss and damage science and law.
  • Annika Weis
    Consultant
    Project: Building novel climate greenwashing databases using manual methods.
  • Gwenyth Wren 
    Consultant
    Project: Identifying jurisdictions for strategic climate litigation.

Short-term Visitors

Nishtha Sinha
​LL.M. Candidate-Environment Law and Policy, Stanford Law School

Affiliated Members

Professor Myles Allen 
Professor of Geosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative (Geosystem Science)

Professor Liz Fisher
Professor of International Environmental Law at Oxford University (Environmental Law)