Katie Manning

Katie's work takes a systems approach to climate change, drawing on the political, economic and social dimensions of climate mitigation and adaptation.

She undertook her PhD at the University of Oxford, looking at the role of human adaptation to past climatic change in northern Africa. On completion of her PhD, Katie developed a range of analytical approaches to reconstructing palaeodemographic and dietary trends in the context of Holocene climatic and cultural change.

Recently, Katie's research focus has shifted to the challenge of contemporary and future climate change. In 2020, Katie joined the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where she was leading on the systems analysis of land use for the upcoming government Land Use Framework.

Today, her work focuses on the food and land use systems, and the need for science, policy and business to work collectively to develop the systemic transformations that are required to build a sustainable future.