THE TEAM
BRIDGING ACAdemiA, BUSINESS and GOVERNMENT
Our team brings together academic rigour and decades of real-world consulting experience. We have published widely on systemic futures and science-led decision-making, and we specialise in helping organisations act when the future is genuinely uncertain.
We have advised institutions including the UK Cabinet Office, the Financial Conduct Authority,
Atkins, ClimateWorks Foundation and the IPCC, as well as a number of blue-chip companies.
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Mark Workman
Director of Foresight Transitions Ltd and an Affiliate Researcher at Imperial College London where he undertakes research on resource systems, energy transitions, environmental and climate change, violent conflict and the processes of decision making under uncertainty.
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Solomon Brown
Principal Consultant for Foresight Transitions Ltd and Professor of Process and Energy Systems at the University of Sheffield and the Director of EPSRC’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Storage and its Applications.
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Tom Smith
Head of Commercial Partnerships at Foresight Transitions Ltd. Tom leads client relationships, proposals and the programmes that take our methods into finance, industry and government, where climate and systemic risks can’t be reliably forecast.
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Mathew Wilkes
Senior Consultant for Foresight Transitions Ltd and Research Fellow in Clean Energy at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in developing process and economic models to analyse technologies capable of decarbonisation and achieving Net Zero.
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Diarmid Roberts
Associate Consultant for Foresight Transitions Ltd and Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, working on the Faraday Institution RelCoBatt project, finding strategies to reduce the cost of the soluble lead flow battery.
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Ioni Kalospyrou
Associate Consultant at Foresight Transitions Ltd and PhD Researcher in Energy Markets and Residential Electrification, specialising in computational modelling of complex systems and decision-making under uncertainty.
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Tim Hutty
Associate Consultant for Foresight Transitions Ltd and Research Associate in Residential Decarbonisation at the University of Sheffield. Specialising in numerical optimisation and agent-based modelling.
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Jack Gower
Associate Consultant at Foresight Transitions Ltd and PhD Researcher in Energy Markets and Energy Storage, specialising in computational modelling to understand emergent behaviour and complex system evolution under deep uncertainty.
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Matt Pritchard
Strategic adviser for Foresight Transitions Ltd and Senior Research Associate at the University of Reading investigating multispecies intelligences and AI. He brings twenty years of experience in national security roles spanning strategy, risk, futures, policy and operations.
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Geoff Darch
Strategic adviser to Foresight Transitions Ltd, Head of Strategic Asset Planning at Anglian Water, Guest Lecturer at the University of East Anglia and the University of Sheffield, and Non-Executive Director of Water Resources East; Geoff is a leading practitioner in decision making under uncertainty in infrastructure systems.