Our Team

Catherine is a Director of Agulhas: Applied Knowledge, a consultancy company specialising in sustainability with a particular focus on climate change, fragile states and governance. As an experienced policy analyst, economist and evaluator with over 24 years' experience, she occupies a unique position in the space intersecting the public and private sectors and civil society, working in sustainability via a range of means including developing standards and products, policy development and analysis, problem analysis, impact assessment, promoting learning and behaviour change.

Catherine leads on work in climate change, having been a member of the core team producing the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change in 2006. Since then she has led teams delivering change across the board in policy, programming, product and standard development with a focus on improving climate resilience. She works with companies, third sector, multilateral development banks and donors on issues including promoting climate smart behaviour, climate resilience in the supply chain, food security, benchmarking competitors, product development, behaviour change and green growth.

Emily is a fellow of mathematics at Darwin College at the University of Cambridge and is a Natural Environment Research Council research fellow based at the British Antarctic Survey, where she is Head of the Open Oceans research group at the British Antarctic Survey. She is a climate science expert who has worked in France (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) and in the US (MIT). Her research group studies the polar oceans and their impacts on global climate and sea level rise. Her personal research interests concern atmosphere and ocean dynamics and she is currently focusing her efforts on understanding the circulation of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and the ways in which it is responding to and influencing climate change. Emily lectures on climate science in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She is actively engaged with communicating climate science to policymakers and stakeholders. Emily is the editor of a recent book entitled Survival, which considers many of the challenges to human survival, now and in the past, including the threat to human societies posed by climate change.

James has a career background in mergers and acquisitions, finance, and corporate strategy, with a focus on the evaluation and management of commercial opportunities and risks of environment and sustainability issues.

James is currently a Partner at the sustainable infrastructure asset manager, Earth Capital Partners LLP (ECP), with responsibility for ECP's sustainable investment strategy. Prior to ECP, he was Head of Sustainable Business at Standard Chartered plc, where he had group-wide responsibility for a commercial strategy covering new products and revenue lines (including the launch of a US$10bn clean energy finance business), risk management, operating efficiencies, and key stakeholder relations. Previously, James was Head of KPMG's Sustainability Consulting Practice and Environment M&A Advisory business. James began his career as an environmental engineer.

James is a Non-Executive Board member of Gold Standard and a member of the BBC's independent Sustainability Advisory Board; he sits on the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance (UKSIF) Leadership Committee, and is a CPSL faculty member.

Ken is currently Director of Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation, a not-for-profit multi-stakeholder think-tank that conducts research on and works with projects to strengthen institutional arrangements that deliver water and sanitation in poor communities. Much of this work is around determining how incentives and risks can be more effectively understood by different partners.

Prior to this, Ken worked as a consultant with the Department for International Development's Business Partnership Unit and The Prince of Wales's Business Leaders Forum to design a project incorporating a public-private-civil society approach to address health and safety standards in the shoe industry in Vietnam. This work capitalised on seven years in Southeast Asia working as a volunteer in rural Thailand, an environment and training officer with USAID/Bangkok on urban environmental management in Thai secondary cities, and then with different international NGOs (including the British-based ActionAid) in both the north and south of Vietnam.

Ken holds a Master’s degree in International Development from the American University in Washington, D.C. and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, also in Washington, D.C. Ken is a Senior Associate of CPSL and has spoken and acted as faculty on a number of programmes.