Trish Lavery

Trish Lavery is an academic and policy leader who holds a PhD in Climate Science and an Bachelors degree in Behavioural Science. She is a current member of the National Security College Futures Council and the OECD AI Futures Expert Working Group, a Senior Fellow of Futures and Human Behaviour at Sympodium Institute, London, and Visiting Fellow at the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University.

As former OECD Strategic Foresight Counsellor and Senior Strategic Analyst, and Director at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia, Trish has experience in applying futures, foresight and behavioural economics to help facilitate better executive and board decision making, more resilient long-term public policy and more effective corporate strategy. Trish is passionate about putting a deeper understanding of human behaviour into the centre of discussions on emerging technologies and trends.

Trish is thrilled to work with the Climate Interventions team to collaboratively develop a range of scenarios that consider how geopolitical shifts and evolving social dynamics could influence governance pathways for solar radiation modification (SRM). The scenarios will make the potential risks, benefits, and uncertainties of SRM futures more tangible and offer insights into how SRM could intersect with geopolitical tensions and security concerns, and with societal issues such as inequality, migration, public trust, and human rights.