Jacquie Burgess is a cultural geographer who specialises in environmental communications processes. Much of her research focuses on how to bring scientists, stakeholders and citizens into dialogue to find more effective and fair ways in which to respond to difficult challenges such as those posed by climate change. As Chair of the UK’s leading behaviour-change charity, Global Action Plan, Jacquie is involved in the development of novel communicative strategies for motivating people to change their routine practices into more sustainable pathways.

Jan Corfee-Morlot of the OECD Environment Directorate is a climate change policy specialist, currently on research leave with University College London. Her work at the OECD has focused on international climate issues, including the oversight of policy deliberations related to the multilateral negotiations as well as review and analyses of national actions to respond to climate change. Her current research centres on how to improve the interface between science, analysis and public deliberation in climate change policy-making.

Mark Maslin is a climatologist and palaeoceanographer at the Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London. Mark specialises in the study of the underlying causes of rapid climate transitions both on a regional and global scale in the context of past and future climate change. He has published over 75 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and Geology, and seven books including his latest Global Warming, A Very Short Introduction (published by OUP), which discusses the scientific, social and political issues relevant to the global warming debate.