Andy is Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

He has over thirty years of practical experience in environmental and climate change research and policy making.  He is particularly interested in governing processes that occur in the European Union, its Member States and countries outside of Europe.

In the past, he has led many large national and EU-funded projects and produced work for an extensive number of knowledge users including the OECD, the UK Cabinet Office, various UK ministries (e.g. DEFRA), UK Foresight, the European Commission, WWF and the RSPB.

In 2022 he joined the Board of the Campaign for Social Science which aims to demonstrate how social science improves public policy, society and all our lives.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the British Academy (FBA).  In 2018 he was awarded Fellow membership of the Institute for Sustainability and Environmental Professionals in recognition of his policy impact work.