Rachel Brisley
Director and Head of Energy and Environment, Ipsos
Rachel has 30 years’ professional experience in the fields of climate resilience, climate mitigation, sustainability, regeneration and external funding. She has held director positions at environmental and economic consultancies and has an international track record in climate resilience working with a range of clients including the World Bank, European Investment Bank, UK government departments, and the Climate Change Committee. Rachel leads on policy research and evaluation for UK government departments such as the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Defra regarding programmes to enhance domestic energy efficiency, net zero innovation, circular economy and air quality. She also leads Ipsos’s strategic partnership with the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations which focuses on the systemic and societal transformations required to address climate change; this partnership produced groundbreaking research on Net Zero Living.