Climate adaptation and resilience

Richard has worked in the environmental sector for 35 years and led or provided expert input to projects regarding more than 30 countries. He has wide-ranging experience of: evidence and policy development; policy, programme and technical monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; systematic rapid evidence assessment; natural resource management, and stakeholder involvement.

Richard has been an expert reviewer of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports since 2012. He publishes regularly, including in Nature and Science, and has authored more than 100 governmental reports.

Dan Forster has over ten year's experience of policy evaluation and environmental economic appraisal, with a particular focus on the energy and environmental sectors. His expertise includes external costs assessment, life cycle analysis, policy appraisal, cost-benefit analysis, and evaluation.

Dan has led major studies for the UK Government and private sector covering the wider consideration of environmental, social and economic effects. He has particular expertise in climate change mitigation polices. This includes research to determine the optimal level of abatement (e.g. analysis of the social cost of carbon, and research on marginal abatement cost curves), but also applied consultancy to develop and implement guidelines for GHG policy appraisal.

Andrea Illes has been leading Ricardo’s work on EU climate adaptation policy since 2017. Amongst others she contributed to the evaluation of the EU’s first Adaptation Strategy, assessed EU Member States’ progress by developing an adaptation preparedness scoreboard, contributed to the preparation of the second EU Adaptation Strategy, oversaw the development and later the assessment of adaptation reporting under the Energy Union Governance Regulation and the monitoring activities of the Mission Implementation Platform MIP4Adapt.

Andrea is an experienced policy evaluation expert who has worked on a wide range of EU policy research projects focusing on climate mainstreaming and tracking within the EU budget and climate adaptation policy. 

Beatriz Mayor is a highly experienced environmental policy consultant with over decade of expertise in environmental policy. As a Principal Consultant, Beatriz manages projects on climate adaptation, water policy, and nature-based solutions, including developing vulnerability assessments, adaptation strategies, reporting, and long-term climate Strategies (LTS). Beatriz has delivered impact assessments of water policies and the mapping of funding, and business models for Nature-Based Solutions. Her exceptional skills in qualitative and quantitative analysis have been employed in projects, including the European Commission, The Nature Conservancy, Repsol and national governments. Beatriz holds a PhD in the water energy food nexus.