We currently lead on Global Research Communications for the technology-forecasting think-tank RethinkX founded by investors James Arbib and Tony Seba, where we are building organisational infrastructure to promote and disseminate scientific data and research to policymakers, journalists, business leaders, the investment and financial community, as well as non-profits, civil society, and mass audiences. Our work is focused on growing RethinkX’s active community of supporters, followers, and influencers, to help scale impact and drive systems change that can usher in what RethinkX call the ‘Age of Freedom’.
We advise the Club of Rome, the global network of scientists, economists, business leaders and former politicians who pioneered the MIT ‘limits to growth’ model, on its Transformational Economics Commission, with a focus on provide systems change expertise on how technology disruptions can be leveraged to accelerate societal change and economic transformation within planetary boundaries. This has included contributing to and coordinating an extensive research and modelling project on global systems transformation.
We provide systems change advice to the Global Citizens Assembly which represented the global population at the United Nations COP26 climate summit in 2021. As part of this process, we worked with the Global Assembly’s Governance team in particular its Knowledge & Wisdom Committee to develop learning materials and processes for Global Assembly members on the intersections between climate change, biodiversity, energy transformation, food systems, economic change, and technology disruptions.
We advised the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Behaviour Change launched by Cambridge University Press, supported by the University of Sussex and the Rapid Transition Alliance, acting as Commissioner on the project. Cambridge Sustainability Commissions are a scientific assessment of any global sustainability issue pertaining to planetary and societal resilience, or any solutions for societal transformations. The CSC’s attempt to identify, appraise and synthesize all the evidence-based natural and/or social science expertise to answer specific research questions on the themes of global sustainability.
We sat on the Board of Stakeholders of the European Union-funded Modelling the Renewable Energy Transition in Europe research (MEDEAS) project. MEDEAS is an open-source model to guide the transition to a low-carbon economy. As a member of the Board, we have provided input and advice on the direction of research, key research questions, modelling assumptions, and overall goals of the project.