Susannah Fisher

Susannah Fisher is a Principal Research Fellow at University College London and holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. She works across research, policy and practice on adaptation policies, programmes and finance. Her interest is in ensuring these processes support effective and equitable adaptation, and that adaptation is at the scale and ambition we need for the escalating impacts of climate change.

Before taking up her Fellowship, she was a Lecturer in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit and worked with philanthropic foundations, multilateral climate funds, bilateral donors and research institutes to provide technical inputs into practical climate change projects and programmes. In previous roles, she led research across the European innovation agency for climate change where she developed a cross-cutting research and thought leadership portfolio on the role of innovation and policy experimentation in the systems change needed to address the urgent climate challenge. Prior to this she was a Team Leader and Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, where she led action research projects supporting national and sub-national governments to adapt to climate change in different contexts.