Susannah Fisher is a researcher and independent consultant specializing in climate adaptation and resilience. She was previously the Head of Research at Climate-KIC where she developed a cross-cutting research portfolio on the role of innovation in addressing climate change, and a Team Leader at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) where she led work supporting national governments to plan for and evaluate adaptation.
Anna Williams is an independent consultant helping leading organizations to make well-informed, bold, and strategic action leading to transformational results. Since 2013, she has helped CIF to realize its mission as a global learning laboratory, first through the design and launch of CIF’s Evaluation & Learning Initiative and more recently by leading CIF’s Transformational Change Learning Partnership.
Nick Brooks has been working on climate change for nearly 20 years, combining consultancy work with research on how human societies responded to rapid and severe climate change in the distant past. He has a particular interest in transformational adaptation, and has written about this topic in contexts as diverse as the prehistoric Sahara and modern-day Kenya. Nick has worked on transformational adaptation issues in the context of development programs (e.g. DFID’s Vuna, StARCK+ and CRIDF programs).