Trustees

With a doctorate in social anthropology, Rosalind spent two decades in sub-Saharan Africa and India before joining the British civil service to become Chief Social Development Adviser at the Department for International Development. In 2002 she moved to the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex to work on themes of power, participation and citizenship. Now Emeritus Professorial Fellow, she lives in Hove, has volunteered at Brighton’s Citizen Advice and been a trustee at Action Aid UK.

James Joughin has worked for 40 years in International Development, specialising in agriculture, food and rural development. In the last 10 years he has published three peer reviewed papers on the politics of food and agriculture in Uganda. Born and educated in Scotland,  James has lived in Brighton for 14 years. He is on the editorial board for Sussex Bylines.

Mark serves as Executive Director of the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI), an independent organisation whose mission is to enable high integrity carbon markets.

With a background in development and environmental economics, Mark has worked across various areas of environment and climate policy for over three decades, with a particular focus on the use of economic instruments in the pursuit of sustainable development.

His previous roles include: Managing Director at Climate Advisers, a Washington DC-based environmental consultancy; Chief Executive of Mongoose Energy Ltd, then the UK’s largest developer and manager of community energy projects; and Chief Executive of international NGO The Climate Group. He was co-founder of both the Verified Carbon Standard and the Gold Standard. 

He serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and is also currently a board member of of Brighton and Hove Energy Services Coop and a member of the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Markets and the Time CO2 Advisory Council.

Moira has a background in law and international law and has spent her career in the charity sector.  Her focus, for the last 17 years, has been on charity governance.  Moira has worked with a variety of domestic and international charities at a senior level.  Many of these roles have extended beyond governance and her experience includes responsibility for legal and compliance functions.

She is currently Director of Legal and Governance for Youth Futures Foundation, the national What Works Centre for youth employment, which has a focus on marginalised young people.

Jennie Moss is the founder of Rethink Events, organisers of international conferences focused on sustainability in agriculture, food, water and materials.  With a strong interest in technology development and commercialisation in these sectors, she has built a network in the UK, US, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Having scaled up the company over 12 years, Jennie recently sold the business to the William Reed Group.  

Andrew Norton is an applied anthropologist currently working as a Senior Adviser to the Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund.  In recent years his work has focused on climate finance, climate justice and links between social policy and positive action on climate change, inequality and biodiversity.  Previously Andrew has been Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Research Director for ODI, and held senior positions in the social development groups at the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development.  He is a board member of the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) and Professor of Practice at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Dave is Professor of Sustainability and International Development at the University of Sussex. He teaches, conducts research and provides applied policy advice on issues around climate change and sustainability, with particular research interests in sustainable energy access and public engagement with low carbon behaviour change. Dave has consulted on climate policy from the national to international levels, including writing and influencing policy for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, Green Climate Fund, African Development Bank, African Union, World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat and OECD Environment Directorate, as well as for governmental departments in multiple countries in the Global South and North. Dave lives in Hanover/Queens Park having been a resident of Brighton since 2006. He is bringing his children up here, both of whom care deeply about climate change and sustainability.

Hi, I'm Emelye and I help the co-chairs with the day to day operations of Climate:Change. I have a degree in Geography, with my main interest lying in political ecology, which deals with how political, economic and social factors interact with environmental issues and change. I hope to bring my core values of equality and justice to Climate:Change through advocating for an interdisciplinary and mulitscalar approach to tackling climate issues in our city.