Laurie Laybourn-Langton

Laurie Laybourn-Langton researches, writes and speaks on the acceleration of risks resulting from climate change and nature loss. Drawing on experience in academia, activism and policymaking, his work explores the capabilities needed to navigate sustainability transitions through the growing destabilisation resulting from environmental change.

Laurie currently leads the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI). He is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, a Visiting Fellow at the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Laurie sits on a resilience advisory group for the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC).

His wide-ranging research includes leading the major Responding to Environmental Breakdown programme at IPPR, which won a 2019 Prospect Think Tank of the Year award. He writes regularly for a range of publications and speaks on TV, radio and at events.

Laurie is a trustee at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and a board member of the Economic Change Unit. Previously, he was the Director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and was the co-founding Executive Director of the Economic Change Unit. Laurie has also worked at the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford University, and in the House of Lords. He has a MPhil in economics from Oxford University and a BSc in physics.