The OCJN Advisory Board

The Advisory Board of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) is a group of people chosen for their expertise, including climate journalists, climate scientists and strategic partners of the network and of the Reuters Institute. The Advisory Board will support the OCJN in its goal of improving the quality and impact of climate change journalism worldwide. Members shall be invited initially for a two-year period.

The remit of the board will be: 

• To establish connections between the Network and leading organizations and ideas in the world of climate journalism, climate science and climate policy

• To provide advice and expertise

• To help develop the range of the Network and support its work, for the improvement of climate journalism worldwide

• To connect the Institute with potential funding partners and other stakeholders. 

Gustavo Faleiros 

Gustavo is the Director of Environmental Investigations for the Pulitzer Center.  He has a master's degree in Environment, Politics and Globalization from King's College London and a bachelor's degree in journalism from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Based in Brazil, he is an environmental journalist and media trainer specialising in data-driven journalism.  In 2012, he founded InfoAmazonia, a digital platform that uses satellite imagery and other publicly available data to report on the nine Amazon rainforest countries.

Before that, he was editor of the Brazilian environmental news site O Eco. Faleiros began his career as a reporter for Valor Econômico, Brazil's leading financial newspaper, covering infrastructure and sanitation. He has also contributed to several publications such as Nature, Scientific American, The Guardian, Revista Piauí and Folha de São Paulo.

He was twice selected as a Knight International Journalism Fellow at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) due to his work promoting geo-journalism. Between 2014 and 2017, he worked in partnership with the Earth Journalism Network (EJN), where he led the  Council of the Partners in addition to activities in Central Africa and Latin America. He taught at Emerson College in Boston and the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá as a visiting professor.

Ivan Couronne 

Ivan is the "Future of the Planet" chief editor at Agence France-Presse in Paris. He reports to AFP's Global Editor-in-Chief and oversees climate coverage for AFP's 1,700 journalists worldwide, who produce text, photo, and video news content in six languages.  

Working with AFP's business, environmental and general news reporters, he is in charge of unifying coverage of the causes and impact of climate change, of the energy transition, and of the responses to the climate crisis. Additionally, Ivan coordinates coverage of major environmental events such as COPs and supervises AFP's climate training program for the global newsroom. 

Previously, he spent ten years at AFP's bureau in Washington, DC, where he worked as a video journalist, US Congress and politics correspondent, and science, space, and environment correspondent. 

Dr. Fredi Otto 

Friederike (Fredi) is a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, one of Imperial's six hubs for research, innovation and influence on global challenges.  

Fredi is a physicist with a doctorate from the Free University Berlin in philosophy of science in 2011. She joined the University of Oxford in the same year and was director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford before joining Imperial in October 2021.  

Her main research interest is on extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves and storms, and understanding whether and to what extent these are made more likely or intense due to climate change - known by experts as 'climate change attribution'.  

In 2018, Fredi became one of the international climate scientists writing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) The Scientific Basis, which was published in August 2021, she is also an author on the IPCC's final report of the sixth assessment cycle, the Synthesis Report which was published in March 2023.  

Fredi is the co-lead of World Weather Attribution (WWA), an international effort to analyse and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events. Through rapid attribution studies, which provide timely scientific evidence showing the extent to which climate change influenced a given event, WWA has helped to change the global conversation around climate change, influencing adaptation strategies and paving the way for new sustainability litigation.

Joss Garman 

Joss is Executive Director and a member of the Executive Management Team of the European Climate Foundation, a philanthropy focused on accelerating action on climate change. He oversees the organisation's strategies and grant-making, with a focus on communications, citizen engagement and cultural change. He also leads the UK programme. 

The Sunday Times, Politico and the Guardian have named him one of the UK's most influential voices on climate change. He has over 15 years' experience working at the intersection of campaigning, politics, policy, and media through senior roles in NGOs, think tanks, politics and philanthropy.  

Joss is an alumnus of both the US International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) and the European Young Leaders Programme (EYL), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). His writing has appeared in The Times, The Observer, The Independent, The i, the Mirror, the Guardian, and The New Statesman. 

Katy Hartley 

Katy is the Director of Strategy, Innovation and Narrative, and is a member of the management team for Laudes Foundation. In the past 25 years, Katy has worked in the fields of strategy, concept creation, partnership building, and international public affairs.   

Her strategy experience started in 2009 in Royal Philips, when she was mandated to develop two organisations from scratch. The first was the Philips Center for Health and Well-being which created global think tanks on the societal challenges of liveable cities and active ageing. Secondly, the Philips Foundation was founded, which then had a focus on bringing the power of corporate innovation to the humanitarian and development sectors.  

After moving to work for the Brenninkmeijer family philanthropies in 2016, Katy worked for both Porticus and COFRA and was a part of a cross-entity team exploring how all the philanthropic entities could respond to climate breakdown. This project culminated in the concept for Laudes Foundation.  

Katy holds board positions with The Partnering Initiative, and Fashion for Good museum, and is a member of the World Economic Forum Foresight community.

Wolfgang Blau  

Wolfgang Blau is a climate communication expert and Global Managing Partner of the Brunswick Group's Climate Hub and ESG Practice Group. As a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute, Wolfgang looked at ways to increase journalism's capacity to cover climate change across all typical departments of a news organisation. In 2021, Wolfgang founded the Oxford Climate Journalism Network together with Meera Selva.

Wolfgang is an advisor to the UNFCCC, a Trustee Director of Internews Europe and of the Bonn Institute for Constructive Journalism, and he is on the editorial advisory board of Prospect Magazine. He is also a Visiting Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House on issues of climate communication.

In his prior roles, Wolfgang was the President International and global Chief Operating Officer of Condé Nast. He oversaw the Condé Nast companies in Asia, Europe and Latin America, the  global license partnerships in Africa, the Middle East, and Brazil, as well as the company's global Editorial Operations, Product & Development, Data & Insight, and Business Development functions in New York. 

Prior to Condé Nast, Blau served as Executive Director of Digital Strategy at the Guardian, with responsibility for the Guardian's digital strategy in the US, UK and Australia. Before moving to the UK, he was Editor-in-chief of Zeit Online for five years, a position that won him Germany’s 'Chief Editor of the Year' award. Wolfgang started his career as a radio news anchor in Germany's national public broadcaster ARD, and worked for seven years in California as a Silicon Valley reporter and columnist for German national media. 

Dr. David Obura 

David is a Founding Director of CORDIO East Africa, and chairs the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). CORDIO is a knowledge organisation supporting sustainability of coral reef and marine systems in the Western Indian Ocean. David’s primary research has been on coral reef resilience, biogeography and climate change impacts.  

His interests are turning now towards sustainability science pivoting around coastal, African and societal needs and priorities, in the broader sustainable development paradigm. 

David works from the local scale, through fostering innovative action to promote sustainability, through regional scale alignment and integration, to global scales.  

He is on the Earth Commission (2019-2026), was a Co-Chair of IPBES’s Nexus Assessment and was active in compiling science inputs into the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. David was awarded Kenya’s national honour, Moran of the Burning Spear in December 2021, and the Coral Reef Conservation Award of the International Coral Reef Society in 2022.

Sharon Chen 

Sharon Chen is the managing editor for Bloomberg Green. She oversees a global team of reporters and editors covering climate change. Before this, she was Bloomberg's Beijing bureau chief and has also worked for the news organisation in Singapore and New York. 

Meera Selva 

Meera is Chief Executive of Internews Europe. 

Meera was previously the Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and is a co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. 

She is an experienced journalist who has reported from the field across Europe, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, including several years at the Associated Press. 

She is also a senior research associate of the Reuters Institute and an associate fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford, as well as a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research. Her research focuses on issues of press freedom, diversity in newsrooms, and media sustainability.

Dr. Radhika Khosla 

Dr Radhika Khosla is Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, School of Geography and the Environment, and Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, Somerville College, at the University of Oxford. She works on examining the productive tensions between urban transitions, energy services consumption and climate change with a focus on developing country cities. 

Radhika is Principal Investigator of the Oxford Martin School's interdisciplinary and multi-country programme on the Future of Cooling, which examines and helps shape the unprecedented increase in cooling energy demand growth. She is also Co-Investigator of Oxford Net Zero, an interdisciplinary research programme aimed at informing effective, equitable, and ambitious climate action. Alongside this position she leads complementary research projects on urban transitions and energy consumption (focusing on India). She is a contributing author to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and lead author of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report (2020). 

Radhika's other current academic affiliations are at University of Pennsylvania (USA), and the Centre for Policy Research (India). She serves on the UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office UK-India Advisory Board; on the Steering Committee of the Smart Surfaces Coalition; on boards of journals and book presses; and on a range of advisory roles within Oxford. 

Radhika holds a PhD in the Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate and master's degrees in Physics from the University of Oxford. 

Leo Hickman 

Leo Hickman is the director and editor of Carbon Brief, an award-winning UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy.   

Leo previously worked for 16 years as a journalist, editor and author at the Guardian newspaper. Before joining Carbon Brief in 2015, he was WWF-UK’s chief advisor on climate change. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Exeter in recognition of his journalism. In 2020, he was named “editor of the year” by the Association of British Science Writers. Leo's books include A Life Stripped Bare, The Final Call and Will Jellyfish Rule the World? 

Sipho Kings 

Sipho Kings is the publisher at the weekly African newspaper The Continent. He previously news edited and then ran the South African newspaper Mail & Guardian. He has been an environment and climate reporter for over a decade. This work won him more than a dozen awards and saw him selected for the 2018 cohort of Harvard's Nieman journalism fellowship. While he still reports, his focus now is on creating spaces for reporters to do quality journalism.