Lead Expert Group

Foresight projects involve leading experts from the widest scientific and other disciplines in order to ensure that our work is of the highest technical and scientific standard. The Lead Expert Group, below worked with Foresight to ensure that the project included the most relevant evidence and its findings are of the highest technical and scientific standard.

Professor Yvonne Rydin - Chair
Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London and Co-Director, University College of London Environment Institute.

Dr Patrick Devine Wright
Reader, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester.

Dr Chris Goodier
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering Design, Coventry University.

Professor Simon Guy
Professor of Architecture, Director, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester.

Professor Lester Hunt
Professor of Energy Economics, Surrey Energy Economics Centre (SEEC), University of Surrey

Mr John Loughhead
Executive Director of UK Energy Research Centre and President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Professor Lorna Walker
Managing Director of Lorna Walker Consulting Ltd, CABE Commissioner, and the Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor for Engineering Design for Sustainable Development at Sheffield University.

Dr Jim Watson
Deputy Director of the Sussex Energy Group based at SPRU, University of Sussex and Deputy Leader of Tyndall Centre's Energy Programme.