The Adaptation Sub-Committee has 9 members and is chaired by Lord John Krebs Kt FRS, who is also a member of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). The ASC is supported by a secretariat that conducts economic, scientific and social analysis and provides corporate support to the Board.

Lord John Krebs
Graham Wynne
Professor Jim Hall
Dr. Sam Fankhauser
Dr. Andrew Dlugolecki
Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone
Professor Martin Parry
Professor Anne Johnson
Professor Tim Palmer

Lord John Krebs
Professor Lord Krebs Kt FRS, is Principal of Jesus College Oxford. He studied Zoology and population ecology of birds for his undergraduate and D Phil degrees at Oxford. He has held posts at the University of British Columbia, the University of Wales, and Oxford, where he was lecturer in Zoology, 1976-88, and Royal Society Research Professor, 1988-2005. From 1994-1999, he was Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council and, from 2000-2005, Chairman of the Food Standards Agency. He has published more than 300 papers, books and reviews, has been awarded 14 honorary degrees and numerous prizes and medals.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a cross-bencher and a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee in the House of Lords.

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Graham Wynne
Graham Wynne, CBE, joined the RSPB in 1987, having spent 15 years as a city planner, principally concerned with inner city regeneration. He became Director of Conservation for the RSPB in 1989 and was appointed Chief Executive in 1998. Graham is a member of the Natural Environment PSA Delivery Board; the Foresight Land Use Futures High Level Group; the Adaptation Sub-Committee to the Committee on Climate Change; and until recently, the Board of Stop Climate Chaos (a coalition of environmental development NGOs, faith groups and other civil society organisations).

He was a member of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food, the Delivery Group for the Government's Sustainable Farming and Food Strategy and of the Government’s Sustainable Development Commission. He is also a Council member of BirdLife International, a global partnership of conservation organisations.

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Professor Jim Hall 

Professor Jim Hall is Director of the Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research in Newcastle University and is Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He is a civil engineer who began his career working on risk analysis in flood and coastal engineering. He was co-developer of the national flood risk analysis method which is now applied to all of England and Wales in the UK Environment Agency's National Flood Risk Assessment. Professor Hall played a core role in the Foresight Future Flooding project, which analysed risks and responses to flooding and coastal erosion in the UK over the period 2030-2100. The Foresight project provided key evidence on flood risk to the Stern Review, to which Professor Hall was a named advisor. He was also an advisor on uncertainty and decision analysis to the Environment Agency's Thames Estuary 2100 project, which explored options for long term flood risk management in London. Professor Hall has published over 50 articles in international refereed journals on the subjects of flood and coastal risk analysis, infrastructure systems, climate change and decision making under uncertainty. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Statistical Society.

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Dr. Sam Fankhauser
Dr. Samuel Fankhauser is a Principal Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics. He also serves as Chief Economist at Globe International, the international legislator forum. Previously, Sam worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he rose to Deputy Chief Economist and was responsible for the Bank’s policy studies programme.

He has worked on climate change issues at the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank and served on the 1995, 2001 and 2007 assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2007/08, he was Managing Director at IDEAcarbon Strategic. Sam’s research interests include carbon markets, the economics of adaptation and the social costs of climate change. A UK and Swiss national, Sam studied economics at the University of Berne, the London School of Economics and University College London.

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Dr. Andrew Dlugolecki
Dr. Andrew Dlugolecki is currently a self employed consultant on climate change and the insurance and finance sector. Prior to this he worked for 27 years in the Aviva Group in a number of management positions. His early work on the cost of weather claims led to his involvement with UK and other scientists on the issue of global warming from 1988 onwards.

He has published extensively on the impacts of climate change on the insurance and finance sector, independently, within the insurance profession, and as a senior author of many official studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

He is currently an advisor to the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, working from home in Perth, Scotland.

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Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone
Baroness Young began her career in health service management and policy before leading a range of conservation and environmental organisations, both here in the UK and internationally. Barbara was Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (1991-8), Chair of English Nature (1998-2000), Chief Executive of the Environment Agency (2000-2008) and Chair of the Care Quality Commission (2008-2010). Between 1998 and 2000, Barbara was Deputy Chair of the BBC. She has also worked extensively in the voluntary sector, serving as President of the British Trust for Ornithology, and Vice-President of RSPB, Birdlife International, Flora and Fauna International.

Barbara has served on a range of government environmental bodies, including the Sustainable Development Round Table, the Sustainable Procurement Task Force and the Water Resources Forum. Created a Life Peer in 1997, Barbara is an active advocate of environmental, health and social care issues in parliament and is a chartered environmentalist.

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Professor Martin Parry
Professor Parry is visiting professor at Imperial College, University of London. He was Co-Chair of Working of Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during its 2007 Assessment. He has held positions as Professor of Geography at the Universities of Oxford, University College London, Birmingham and University of East Anglia.

He was chairman of the UK Climate Change Impacts Review Group, and a coordinating lead author in the IPCC first, second and third assessments. He has published 5 books and about 150 scientific papers on climate change impacts. His main research interests concern impacts and adaptation on agriculture.

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                            Professor Anne Johnson
Professor Anne Johnson trained as a Public Health doctor. She is now Professor of infectious diseases epidemiology and Director of the Division of Population Health at University College London. Anne’s research has been used to inform public health policy for prevention and treatment of HIV and other infectious diseases and for sexual and reproductive health promotion. She is currently Chair of the Medical Research Council Population Health Sciences Group.

She was a member of the University College London/Lancet Commission on managing the health effects of climate change published in May 2009.

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Professor Tim Palmer

Professor Tim Palmer is a world leader in physical climate science and climate modelling. He has pioneered approaches to representing uncertainty in weather and climate forecasts and has worked extensively with users of climate forecasts. He was lead author of the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is Chair of the international scientific steering group of a key climate prediction project under the UN World Climate Research Programme.

Tim is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has been appointed a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor from January 2010, a position which he will hold at Oxford University.