Chris Dodwell, Head of Policy, International Climate Change - Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chris has been at the heart of UK government policy on international climate change since 2006.  He led the UK negotiating team at the Nairobi and Bali COPs and was responsible for cross-Whitehall coordination of international climate policy coordination.   He is now head of the DECC team responsible for international mitigation policy, in particular global emissions trajectories, mitigation action by developed and developing countries and the role to be played by the carbon market in financing these actions.  Chris joined Defra as a lawyer in October 2000 after qualifying as a solicitor in the environmental law team at the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.