Climate justice and the city

Richard Lorch (Event Chair)

Editor in Chief at Buildings & Cities

Richard Lorch is an architect, researcher, writer and editor-in-chief of Buildings & Cities. He was the former editor-in-chief of Building Research and Information and executive editor of Climate Policy.

He is a visiting professor at University College London and Politecnico di Milano. He works on organisational / policy responses to climate change - mitigation and adaptation paths - and the environmental impacts of the built environment and building performance at different scales from the individual building to neighbourhood to city.  

Baroness Brown of Cambridge

at Member of the House of Lords

Baroness Brown is a Crossbench Member of the House of Lords, an engineer with extensive experience in industry, in Rolls-Royce plc, and academia.  Her current interests focus on technology and climate change.

Julia was Vice Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee for 12 years from 2008 – 2021, is Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the CCC, and advises the UK Government as a member of the Hydrogen Advisory Council and as climate change advisor to the Jet Zero Council. She chairs The Carbon Trust, is a non-executive director of Ørsted and of Ceres Power, and was a non-executive director of the Green Investment Bank.  She led the King Review on decarbonising transport (2007) for the UK Government.

Anna Mavrogianni

Associate Professor in Sustainable Building and Urban Design at UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering

Dr Anna Mavrogianni is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Building and Urban Design at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London (UCL). She is an expert in indoor environmental quality, building energy retrofit and climate change adaptation of the built environment sector, with a focus on overheating and air quality exposure of vulnerable populations at the building and urban scale. She leads interdisciplinary research in building performance analysis used by policymakers to evaluate impacts of energy efficiency, urban growth and climate change on energy use, carbon emissions, health, wellbeing and inequalities.

Kristen Guida

Manager at London Climate Change Partnership

Kristen is an experienced Manager in Non-Government and Public Policy sectors, with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental services industry. Strong professional skilled in Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Communication and Stakeholder Engagement, Policy Analysis, Sustainability, and Environmental Policy.

Joe Giddings

Architect/Designer at Architects Climate Action Network

Joe Giddings is an architect, climate activist and campaigner. He is one of the co-founding members of the Architects Climate Action Network and continues to coordinate campaigns within the network, with a particular focus on campaigns to regulate the embodied carbon emissions of new buildings. He is also Projects & Campaigns Director of the Timber Accelerator Hub at The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products.

Stephen Axon

Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science in the Department of the Environment, Geography and Marine Sciences at Southern Connecticut State University

Stephen Axon is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science in the Department of the Environment, Geography and Marine Sciences at Southern Connecticut State University. His research focuses on the challenges of making everyday life and the communities we live in more sustainable; informed by 'what works' approaches that are inclusive, equitable, and participatory. Stephen teaches courses that explore the principles, policies, and practices of sustainability, which incorporate conceptual, practical, and applied dimensions. He is the Graduate Program Coordinator for the MS Environmental Studies, the co‐director of the Connecticut State University System Center for Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Education (CELSE), Editor for the Northeastern Geographer, and welcomes academic collaborators looking to engage in sustainability-related research as well as graduate students looking to pursue research in this field.