Meet the team

Rachael is the CEO of Climate Outreach. She works closely with the board to ensure effective governance and growth of the organisation and with our senior leaders in defining and delivering the organisation’s overall strategy, goals and impact.

Rachael has spent her career in the voluntary sector in leadership roles combining a deep commitment to social justice and to public engagement. She has run campaigns for Shelter, led programme and campaigning work at Oxfam and currently serves as Chair of Trustees at the Refugee Council.

It was in her last role, leading a network of housing associations, that Rachael really appreciated the huge gap in public awareness and engagement on climate change – and the huge opportunity to fill this gap. Housing, like many sectors, is in a race to decarbonise, and the sector is still really developing its approach to community, resident and public engagement. Rachael firmly believes that Climate Outreach is uniquely placed to help many sectors fill this gap.

Rachael is a mum to two young children so most of her spare time is spent playing schools or superheroes – and tidying up. She spends any time she gets to herself running, cycling and going to the theatre.

Hayden joined Climate Outreach in July 2025, helping to ensure Government, MPs and businesses meaningfully engage voters on the climate and energy transitions. Prior to joining Climate Outreach, Hayden led Public Affairs for the Refugee Council and provided the Secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. He also worked for fuel poverty charity National Energy Action during the height of the gas price crisis post-pandemic and has experience working in Parliament as a Researcher on Climate and Environmental issues. Hayden was inspired to work towards environmental justice after being involved with the Extinction Rebellion movement in 2019 and believes that involving communities and voters in decisions around our climate and energy is vital to secure a liveable future.

Hayden was born and raised in North Wales, and when not at work and learning Welsh he can be found on the tennis and padel courts. Hayden is passionate about promoting LGBT+ inclusion and volunteers for Switchboard LGBT+ helpline and preventing loneliness charity Re-engage. He holds a BA in Human, Social and Political Sciences from Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Alvin joined Climate Outreach in July 2021 and is our Head of Finance. He is responsible for managing our finances, ensuring strong financial control, and helping to scale up our systems and processes that will support our growth plans. He has 25 years of experience in senior finance roles within large organisations, predominantly in the mineral extraction and construction materials industry.

Whilst Alvin originally trained as an accountant, he also holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies. After some travelling in southeast Asia, he became increasingly interested in the close interconnections between climate change and development. This led to postgraduate studies in Climate Change and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Alvin lives with his family on the Kent coast. He can often be seen enjoying some long cycle rides through the Kent countryside and beyond.

Increasingly concerned about climate change from the mid 1990s, Steve could not understand why almost no-one around him shared his concern. Climate Outreach public events from 2005 were addressing this problem, which led to him being active in local climate action groups and taking an interest in building energy use.

Steve worked for the Potato Council for 25 years, providing an information and knowledge transfer service to potato growers. He took redundancy when the organisation relocated to Warwickshire in 2009, which provided opportunities to volunteer for Climate Outreach and to study for MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies at the Centre for Alternative Technology.

In late 2011, Steve stepped in to provide part-time support for Carbon Conversations at Climate Outreach, and stayed on as a volunteer. At the same time he trained as a Domestic Energy Assessor and in 2013 began working for a local family firm carrying out energy assessments on new dwellings, and advising architects and builders. Now semi-retired, he continues to work part time as both a volunteer with Climate Outreach and as an energy assessor.

Nameerah is our Advocacy Manager, working to support MPs, governments, and businesses on climate engagement. And supporting partners on how to engage different audiences meaningfully on climate change.

She previously joined as an Engagement Advisor working on the Climate Engagement Initiative, an ambitious and multi-partner project that aims to influence the outcomes of the UNFCCC negotiations on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), and to support governments to strengthen their national public engagement initiatives.

She is also the founder of Women In Energy Pakistan, working to build a strong community of female professionals and foster a culture of career and leadership development.

With over ten years of experience, Nameerah has worked in the nexus of energy and climate policy in the UK, USA and Pakistan. She formerly served as a Policy Specialist in the Government in Pakistan working on renewable energy and energy efficiency with development partners. She studied Energy, Resources and Environment at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in USA.

Alastair is the Climate Visuals Manager. With a background in photojournalism, he is particularly interested in how you tell stories through photography, and how viewers interact with photographs.

Prior to joining Climate Outreach Alastair was a picture editor at The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers, working on domestic and international news photography. Before this, he trained in photojournalism at the London College of Communication and worked as a newspaper photographer.

Alastair is happiest when taking photographs and riding bicycles, often at the same time, ideally up a hill.

Fahmida is a Programme Manager at Climate Outreach, helping deliver a range of the organisation’s projects. Fahmida has spent much of her career in the charity sector, her role at Media Trust saw her lead programmes of free training, mentoring, and resources for UK charities. She has also supported charities and newsrooms in embedding inclusivity and intersectionality into their storytelling to better reflect lived experience.

She holds a BA Hons in English, an APM Project Management Qualification and has completed a Level 4 Project Manager Apprenticeship.

Being a second generation British Bangladeshi, and with Bangladesh being a particularly climate vulnerable country, Fahmida has a deep interest in the intersections of racial and climate justice. Alongside work, she helps run Bangladeshi Diaspora Climate Action (BDCA), a network of UK Bangladeshi professionals leveraging their expertise to support climate mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh and build climate awareness in their community.

You can also often find her painting, reading, or exploring London’s parks and food markets!

Emma oversees sharing Climate Outreach’s work with audiences across all digital channels through owned and earned media. 

Before joining Climate Outreach, Emma led a small marketing and communications team at Trees for Cities, promoting urban forestry across the UK. Emma is especially passionate about making climate action accessible and equitable to everyone, and is always looking for creative ways to engage people from all backgrounds. She is a Climate Fresk workshop facilitator, helping demystify IPCC reports and the science behind climate change. Emma discovered Climate Outreach initially through studying a short course on communicating climate change for effective climate action.

Having spent time living in Canada and Austria lapping up outdoor activities in the mountains, Emma now lives in London and can be seen running around Battersea Park, at a yoga class or comedy gig, or with her head in her Kindle.

Chris leads the research team at Climate Outreach, working to undertake research that underpins our insights.

Having started out in a lab in the pharma sector, Chris changed tack to follow his environmental passions and study for an interdisciplinary MSc in Conservation Science. 

Via a short stint working to help seafood retailers collaborate for sustainability, Chris got his PhD looking at the conflict arising when wild geese damage crops across the islands of Scotland. 

After completing his PhD, Chris has worked leading research on the social dimensions of plant health and biosecurity, both in the UK and abroad, as well as on urban forestry and the social and cultural values of greenspaces. 

The common thread of Chris’ curiosity has always been to better understand the cooperation needed to tackle complex social-environmental problems, which makes research here at Climate Outreach such a natural fit.

Having travelled the isles of Scotland for research and pleasure, Chris now lives with his family in (slightly less wild) Edinburgh. He has spent his time in Scotland over the last decade building connections between policymakers and ecologists through volunteering with organisations like the British Ecological Society. Chris is an avid reader, casual birder and novice gardener.

Alex manages the Climate Change and Migration Coalition – an alliance that exists to challenge the lack of long-term strategies to support and protect people at risk of displacement linked to environmental change.

Before joining Climate Outreach, he worked at the Centre for Alternative Technology. He has also worked for the Public Interest Research Centre on their Values and Frames project. He co-founded Cheat Neutral, a spoof offsetting company, and UN Fair Play, an organisation that works with small island states at international climate change negotiations.

In her role as Executive Assistant, Raphene works closely with the Leadership Team and Board of Trustees to provide administrative support.

She developed her skill at providing efficient business support in both the private and non-profit sectors, including at a global fintech company, a private equity firm and a small faith-based charity. Working in a broad array of organisations revealed her passion for collaborating with a variety of people to drive solutions and increase organisational effectiveness.

Raphene earned her BA in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Being immersed in the environment of a modern university with a highly international student body, her studies and the lived experiences of her peers highlighted the pressing reality of climate change. Through her role at Climate Outreach and her voluntary campaigning work with climate-focused NGOs, Raphene strives to make a positive impact.

Outside of work, Raphene enjoys gym classes and long walks in nature, travelling, eating out with friends and Jamaican food with loved ones. She has basic competency in French and is learning Czech.

Morgan assists with projects across the organisation, enabling Climate Outreach to deliver and grow their programmes. A key part of his role involves identifying, researching, and reporting on potential opportunities.

With a background in the arts, Morgan understands the impact storytelling can have and the importance of communication. Through his work in television and during his time studying for an MA in Documentary Production, he became increasingly invested in climate change and came to Climate Outreach with a sense of duty to contribute his skillset to changing the narrative.

Morgan lives in Manchester, loves the cinema and gigs in equal measure, often explores the countryside, and gets involved in creative projects with friends.

Susan is a London based lawyer and governance expert who is committed to making a difference in the world through purpose-led responsible leadership.

Susan is an experienced non-executive in the healthcare and charity sector, has held senior executive positions at Lloyds Banking Group, Monzo and Standard Chartered and ran her own business for several years as an executive coach. She is a current Fellow of the Forward Institute.

Outside work, when not spending time with her family, Susan sings jazz and latin music for fun, reads voraciously and loves weight-training and running.

Polly is an experienced family office and finance executive. She has extensive knowledge of the management of a family office, including governance, finance, technology, people, philanthropy and sustainability as well as direct emerging market investing and indirect global endowment investing. She is a seasoned board member, both from an executive and non-executive perspective, having sat on a wide range of commercial and non-profit boards. 

From 2017 to 2023 Polly was CEO of Oppenheimer Generations Custodian, and for the previous 12 years was CFO of its predecessor entity. The Oppenheimer Generations family office represented the global commercial, philanthropic, and family interests of the Nicky Oppenheimer family.  In this capacity, Polly represented Oppenheimer Generations on the boards of portfolio companies and non-profit organisations.  This included 18 years as a Trustee of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, an education focused non-profit, and 4 years as a member of the De Beers audit committee.

Prior to joining the Oppenheimer family, Polly was the finance director, and a member of the executive and investment committees of Brait Private Equity, a leading private equity firm in South Africa. She qualified as a chartered accountant at Deloitte in London and became a partner in the financial institutions team at Deloitte in Johannesburg, specialising in private equity. Polly holds a BA in History from the University of Exeter.

Daniel is Senior Campaigns Director at creative social impact agency Purpose and co-lead of the Purpose Climate Lab with responsibility for the organisation’s climate work across the globe.

Previously, Daniel led campaigning at Catholic development agency CAFOD, driving action on net zero and refugee rights by reaching a younger and more diverse audience. He ran ActionAid UK’s successful women’s rights campaign. Daniel also co-founded a youth empowerment non-profit.

Daniel holds a PhD in geography from the University of Leeds and an MBA from the Open University. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was once met by Pope Francis at the Vatican. Despite living in Central London, Daniel is surprisingly outdoorsy.

Peter Morley is a senior leader in the Centre of Excellence at the active travel charity Sustrans. He is especially motivated by helping people choose travel methods that reduce private car usage. This includes the leadership of a portfolio of programmes that encourage societal behaviour change and deliver improvements in cycling and walking infrastructure. He is an experienced project, programme and portfolio manager and has a particular interest and experience in charity governance and risk management.

Before working at Sustrans, Peter led the commissioning social care services at a unitary authority. This was for diverse client groups such as women and children fleeing domestic violence, disabled and older people who need support to stay at home, child victims of sexual abuse and disabled children.

Peter also chairs the Board of Base 51, a charity that supports some of the most vulnerable young people in Nottingham through counselling, youth work, music, an LGBTQ+ support group and targeted work to minimise the risk from gang culture and knife crime.

In his spare time, Peter is a keen road cyclist and mountain biker, and he plays a variety of musical instruments in several groups.

Dr Ellie Murtagh is the UK Climate Adaptation Lead at the British Red Cross. Since starting the position in September 2022, she has been assessing the humanitarian climate related risks individuals and communities face, and will face, in the UK. The aim of the project is to identify where the British Red Cross can add the most value by supporting communities to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the impacts of climate change. 

Prior to this Ellie worked for the Scottish sustainability charity, Sniffer, from 2017 – 2022 leading projects on public sector capacity building and climate finance, as part of the Adaptation Scotland programme. She holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde, where her research explored decision-making tools and approaches for climate adaptation. 

In her spare time, she is an avid reader of second-hand paperbacks, enjoys lino printmaking, walks with her dog and spending time in her off-grid cabin in the South West of Scotland.

Mohini Raichura-Brown is a partnerships consultant and accomplished leader in social impact, corporate responsibility and purpose-driven business strategy. With over 20 years of experience spanning the charity and corporate sectors, she has built a career dedicated to creating meaningful partnerships between business and community. Mohini is passionate about the power of collaboration and keenly drawn to working with others in order to drive sustainable change, strengthen organisational culture and deliver measurable social value.

From 2019-2025 Mohini worked at UNICEF UK, most recently holding the role of Chief Partnerships Officer where she led a large department to build and deliver income-generating partnerships across the private sector, individual philanthropists, large foundations and institutions. Mohini specialises in high-value fundraising, building and embedding purposeful partnerships and storytelling to communicate their impact. She brings a deep understanding of strategic philanthropy, stakeholder engagement and impact.

Dr Halima Sacranie is a housing researcher and completed her PhD in Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Birmingham in 2012. Halima has undertaken research around housing models, tenant engagement and wellbeing, sustainability in social housing, community investment and community-led housing. She has most recently been working at the University of Birmingham on a 4-year EU project applying the principles of the circular economy to social housing demonstration examples in the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Her work within the project has focused on tenant engagement and moving towards a socially inclusive circular economy. Halima is also a Research Fellow at Aston University, undertaking research around the impact of housing quality and neighbourhood conditions on wellbeing, and the impacts of harmful gambling on housing security. 

Halima has chaired the Housing and Communities Leadership Board at the think-tank Centre for New Midlands since July 2021. She believes in housing as a fundamental human right, and in the critical importance of sustainable, affordable and good quality homes on wellbeing, and providing the foundation for children to thrive. When not juggling research work around her 3 children and their busy schedules, Halima enjoys boxing and pilates, and loves visiting new places, especially with interesting architecture.

Salka Sigurðardóttir is a dual UK-Icelandic national specialised in Government policy and international diplomacy. She leads the International Zero Emission Vehicles transition team in the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and has extensive experience leading teams in climate negotiations, strategy and communications.

Salka drove the COP26 vision on inclusivity, gender, indigenous peoples, youth and public engagement, including leading the Action for Climate Empowerment workstream for COP26 and chairing UNFCCC gender negotiations at COP27. She’s a diplomacy nerd and unapologetic believer in using people centred international collaboration across governments, businesses and civil society to build bridges through empathy, humility and inclusion. Salka also led EU Exit and trade teams in the UK Government, and has experience as a journalist. She set up a youth charity for UN Women Iceland and was a member of the Icelandic youth council.