Dr Daniel Quiggin is a senior research fellow with the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. He has expertise in the modelling, analysis and forecasting of national and global energy systems, having modelled various UK and global energy scenarios.
As a senior policy adviser at the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in 2018–20, Daniel led work on the post-Brexit policy implications for the energy sector’s trade of goods and services, and helped shape effective strategies for the energy and climate package of the UK–EU FTA negotiations. He also previously worked as an analyst at Investec Asset Management within a commodities and resources investment team.
Daniel holds master’s degrees in particle physics and climate science, and a PhD in energy system modelling.
Ruth Townend is a research fellow with the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. Prior to joining Chatham House, she spent 12 years researching sustainability and climate change including as part of the Energy and Environment team at Ipsos MORI.
Ruth has led on a wide variety of high-profile quantitative and qualitative sustainability research projects for government clients, charities, trusts and foundations. This work has included: establishing the first robust, UK-wide tracker of net zero relevant public behaviours on behalf of the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy; exploring global public attitudes to planetary boundaries for the Global Commons Alliance; and groundbreaking research into global public understanding of the links between meat consumption and climate change, on behalf of Chatham House. Ruth holds a degree in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge.
Professor Tim G. Benton leads the Environment and Society Programme at Chatham House. He joined Chatham House in 2016 as a distinguished visiting fellow, at which time he was also Dean of Strategic Research Initiatives at the University of Leeds. From 2011 to 2016, he was the ‘champion’ of the UK’s multi-agency Global Food Security programme.
Tim has worked with UK governments, the EU and the G20. He has been a global agenda steward of the World Economic Forum, and is a co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Food, Climate Change and Land (2019) and of the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment (2017, 2022).
Tim has published more than 150 academic papers, many of these tackling how systems respond to environmental change. His work on sustainability leadership has been recognized with an honorary fellowship of the UK’s Society for the Environment, and an honorary doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
