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Steve Smith
Steve Smith

Steve Smith

Advisory board member

Steve researches climate change mitigation at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is Executive Director of CO2RE, the UK’s multi-disciplinary research hub for greenhouse gas removal, as well as the Oxford Net Zero Initiative. He is lead author of the State of Carbon Dioxide Removal and co-developer of the Net Zero Tracker. 

Before rejoining academia, Steve co-led the Climate Science Team at the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Previously was Head of Science at the Climate Change Committee. He has a PhD in atmospheric physics from Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.