Laurie Laybourn

Associate fellow

Laurie is an associate fellow at IPPR and is leading a project on how future leaders can navigate the worsening environmental crisis.

Laurie led IPPR's 2018-2020 Responding to Environmental Breakdownprogramme, which won a 2019 Prospect Think Tank of the Year award, and also worked on the IPPR Environmental Justice Commission and the Commission on Economic Justice.

    Laurie is also a Visiting Fellow at Chatham House and the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. Previously, he was the Director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and was the co-founding Executive Director of the Economic Change Unit. Laurie has also worked at the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford University, in the House of Lords, and as an NHS campaigner. He has a MPhil in economics and a BSc in physics.

    His areas of expertise include:

    • The climate and wider environmental crisis
    • The challenge facing future leaders from the worsening environmental crisis
    • How shifts occur in economic ideas and policies
    • Digital platforms
    • Transport and the mobility transition

    More from this author:

    1. A digital graphic showing a map of the world with an extreme weather warning

      The security blind spot: Cascading climate impacts and tipping points threaten national security

      How climate change poses both immediate and long-term threats that are at least as serious as the Covid-19 pandemic.

    2. 1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal

      A systematic effort is needed to tackle threats and grasp opportunities to make the green transition itself more resilient.

    3. The cohort 2040 challenge

      This report is the first output of Cohort 2040, a project seeking to better understand the challenge facing emerging leaders of the Millennial generation.