Our board

Board of Trustees

Oliver Morton

Chair of the trustees

Oliver is an author and a senior editor at The Economist. As a journalist he has covered solar geoengineering for almost two decades, including as the author of the 2016 book “The Planet Remade”. He has extensive experience as an advisory-board member and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Mark Hilton

Honorary treasurer

Mark is Degrees’ honorary treasurer and a management consultant. He has over 30 years of experience in strategy, leadership and operations. Mark holds Masters’ degrees in Global Development Management and Accounting and Financial Management, and is also a trustee of the British Institute of Human Rights.

Dr Jackie Kado

Trustee

Jackie is the executive director of the Network of African Science Academies which she helped found in 2001. She specialises in project planning and management for policy interventions and also trains on good financial management for research and development projects. She serves as a member of several committees in Kenya and internationally.

Pauliina Murphy

Trustee

A co-founder of the World Benchmarking Alliance, Pauliina leads the organisation’s advocacy and outreach, to ensure that the private sector is both incentivised and held accountable for the role it plays in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals and meeting the needs of people and planet. Pauliina joined WBA from Aviva, a global insurance company and asset manager, where she was head of international government engagement. At Aviva, Pauliina drove forward international policy development and advocacy campaigns on sustainable finance and trade and investment, working closely with multi-lateral institutions such as the UN, G7 and G20. Pauliina is a member of the Paris Peace Forum’s Scaling-Up Committee where she supports new initiatives to realise their potential and maximise their impact.

Mohammed Mofizur Rahman

Trustee

Mohammed Mofizur is a Bangladesh-born environmental scientist and an educator. He has studied Biodiversity, Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development. He is currently working as a scientist at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany on climate change and health. Before joining at PIK, he was an Alexander Von Humboldt International Climate Protection Fellow. He has wide ranges of research interest such as climate change impacts and potential solutions.

Former Trustees

Prof. John Shepherd CBE FRS

Former chair of the trustees

He is an Emeritus Professor of Earth System Science at the University of Southampton. He served as deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research from 2001 to 2010 and chaired the Royal Society’s seminal 2009 Geoengineering the climate report. He was a co-chair of the initiative since 2010 and served as chair of degrees board of trustees between 2020 and 2023.

Prof. Saleemul Huq

Trustee

Saleem was the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Dhaka between 2009 and 2023. He was an IPCC lead author multiple times and a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). In 2022 he was listed as one of the twenty most influential people working on climate change around the world.