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In this panel, Trinity Ethical and Green Affairs and Trinity Politics Society explore the scientific research that is used to advise policymakers, and the experience of individuals who work at this interface.
The speakers are:
Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS (Julia King) is an engineer, cross bench member of the House of Lords, and Deputy Chair of the Committee on Climate Change. Her career spans senior positions at Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Engineering, Rolls Royce, the Institute of Physics, and Imperial College London. Baroness Brown also holds the following positions: chair of the Committee on Climate Change’s Adaptation Committee, non-executive director of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, chair of the Carbon Trust, member of the House of Lords European Union Select Committee She was non-executive director of the Green Investment Bank and she led the King Review on decarbonising transport (2008). She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society, and was awarded DBE for services to higher education and technology. She is a crossbench Peer and a member of the House of Lords European Union Select Committee.Cristina Peñasco, a University Lecturer in public Policy at POLIS. Her research lines bring together multidisciplinary research in environmental economics, innovation policy and energy economics in green and energy efficiency technologies, with a focus on the policy instruments enabling the transition to low-carbon economies. At Cambridge she is also a Bye-Fellow at Queens' College, a Centre Fellow at Centre for the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) hosted at the Department of Land Economy, and an associate researcher of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. Prior to joining POLIS in September 2019, she was an Assistant Professor in Applied Economics in the University of Alcalá (Spain) and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. Previously, she conducted multidisciplinary research in several organisations. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Junior Researcher, in conjunction with a competitive PhD scholarship, in the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the largest public research institution in Spain. In 2014, she was visiting researcher at the Energy Economics Group (EEG) of the Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives at the Vienna University of Technology (TU WIEN)
Cristina Peñasco, a University Lecturer in Public Policy at POLIS. Her research lines bring together multidisciplinary research in environmental economics, innovation policy and energy economics in green and energy efficiency technologies, with a focus on the policy instruments enabling the transition to low-carbon economies. At Cambridge she is also a Bye-Fellow at Queens' College, a Centre Fellow at Centre for the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) hosted at the Department of Land Economy, and an associate researcher of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. Prior to joining POLIS in September 2019, she was an Assistant Professor in Applied Economics in the University of Alcalá (Spain) and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. Previously, she conducted multidisciplinary research in several organisations. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Junior Researcher, in conjunction with a competitive PhD scholarship, in the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the largest public research institution in Spain. In 2014, she was visiting researcher at the Energy Economics Group (EEG) of the Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives at the Vienna University of Technology (TU WIEN)
Catherine Rhodes is Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and Senior Research Associate, Biosecurity Research Initiative at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Her work has broadly focused on the interactions between and respective roles of science and governance in addressing major global challenges. In the context of extreme technological risks, Catherine is particularly interested in understanding the intersection and combination of risk stemming from technologies and risk stemming from governance (or lack of it). She has particular expertise in international governance of biotechnology, including biosecurity and broader risk management issues. Catherine has a background in international relations, but has engaged in extensive interdisciplinary work. Her PhD was funded as part of a Project to Strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention at the Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, and she retains a strong interest in international actions to prevent misuse of bioscience. This includes recent contributions to projects on the development of biosecurity and ethics education, and on improving science and technology review in the biological and chemical weapons control regimes. Catherine worked for the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at Manchester University from 2008-2015, where her work included: elaborating the meaning and content of scientific responsibility at the global level; investigation of science advisory processes in international organisations; and a substantial study of the international governance of genetic resources, which has significant implications for the use of biosciences in managing major global challenges.
Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
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