Stephen Frost

He leads IPPR’s work on transport with a focus on:

1. accelerating the UK’s response to the climate and nature crises
2. tackling transport poverty and reducing transport-related social exclusion
3. understanding public attitudes to transport and increasing public involvement in decision-making.

Stephen joined IPPR as the co-deputy head of the Environmental Justice Commission, co-authoring the commission’s final report. He led the delivery of the citizens’ juries in Tees Valley and County Durham, the South Wales Valleys, Thurrock and Aberdeenshire, which underpinned the commission’s calls for a new social contract to ensure the UK’s response to the climate and nature crises is both rapid and fair. Stephen also convened the Cambridgeshire Fens Climate Panel for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate to develop guiding principles for the region’s climate policymaking.

During his time at IPPR he has led or contributed to reports on a people-focussed decarbonisation pathway for transport, public opinion about transport, active travel and greener buses, rebalancing power and opportunity across England’s regions, fairly reducing car use in Scottish cities and rural areas, clean air, the planning system, community responses to the climate crisis and uncertainty.

Before joining IPPR, he was the head of the research and monitoring unit at walking and cycling charity Sustrans. Stephen has also worked as the voluntary sector and community development lead within a local authority and for a range of social enterprises and charities focussed on social action and increasing public participation in decision making.

Outside of IPPR, Stephen is the trustee of a thriving city farm and nursery in Bristol and a member of Bristol’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change.

Stephen's normal working days are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.