The SUS-POL team and the Advisory Board
Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the 名媛直播 and research director and co-founder of the Rapid Transition Alliance. His recent books include Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of the Energy Transition, Changing Our Ways: Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis and Global Green Politics.
Email: p.j.newell@sussex.ac.uk
Daniela Soto Hernández is a Social Anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the 名媛直播 working on the SUS-POL project. Her PhD in International Development in the same university, looked at decolonising debates around energy transition and lithium extraction in South America. She has worked as researcher and consultant for over 12 years and has published in journals such as Feminist Economics, Journal of Peasant Studies and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
Email: d.soto@sussex.ac.uk
Lukas Slothuus is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the 名媛直播 working on the SUS-POL project. Before joining 名媛直播, he was a Fellow at LSE where he taught an interdisciplinary course on the climate crisis. His PhD from the University of Edinburgh focused on the political theory of social transformation. He has published in the journals Political Studies, Constellations, Global Intellectual History, and Distinktion.
Email: l.slothuus@sussex.ac.uk
Freddie Daley is a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy 名媛直播 and research and communications lead on the SUS-POL project. He is co-author of the book Changing Our Ways: Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis and articles in the journals Earth Systems Governance, Global Sustainability and Energy Research and Social Science.
Email:f.daley@sussex.ac.uk
Caroline Lucas is a writer, campaigner and former Green Party MP. She is a Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the School for Progressive Futures at the 名媛直播, Co-President of the European Movement, an advisor to several climate and nature organisations, and a Trustee of Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. She has written widely on climate and energy issues. Her latest book, a Sunday Times bestseller, Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story was published by Penguin Random House in 2024.
Tom Harrison is Program Manager for the Global Gas and Oil Network; a network of civil society organizations around the world working to achieve a just and equitable managed decline of oil and gas production. He has over a decade of experience working on fossil fuel related advocacy in civil society and philanthropy, with a particular interest in fostering collaboration between advocacy campaigners, think tanks and research institutions.
Harro van Asselt is the Hatton Professor of Climate Law with the Department of Land Economy, and a Fellow with Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He is also Professor of Climate Law and Policy with the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School, Visiting Research Fellow with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, and Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. He is an expert on interactions between international climate governance and other fields of international governance. Harro has worked at the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Dr. Angela Carter is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as a Senior Associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Angela has analysed environmental policy and politics surrounding oil extraction in Canada’s major oil producing provinces. She is currently focused on understanding and amplifying new national bans on fossil fuel extraction that foster equitable transitions. Carter is also an award-winning author who has published widely in scholarly journals, while also regularly offering policy research insights to both media and governments.
Olman Segura-Bonilla is Professor and Director of the International Center of Economic Policy for Sustainable Development (CINPE-UNA) at the National University of Costa Rica. Olman was the Minister of Labour and Social Security of Costa Rica from December 2012 until May 8th, 2014. Between June 2010 and November 2012, he served as Executive President of the National Learning Institute (INA), a leading institution in technical education at the national level. Additionally, Olman maintained the position of Secretary General at the Macro Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean Network until June 2010. Olman’s research focuses on ecological economics, microeconomics, climate change, valuation of natural resources, smart and sustainable cities and economic policies for development.
Dr. Amanda Slevin is an environmental sociologist, educator and community activist whose work focuses on anthropogenic climate change, multi-level climate action, energy conflicts and just transitions, policy frameworks, decision-making and practices surrounding climate action and hydrocarbon extraction, transformative pedagogy, community participation in climate action and sustainability praxis. Amanda works in Queen’s University Belfast where she is Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action and a Research Fellow with the GroundsWell Consortium, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. Amanda combines her academic research, knowledge and skills with over 25 years’ experience in adult and community education, youth work and community development to make important theoretical and practical contributions to multi-level sustainability, climate mitigation, and community resilience.
