People
The STEPS Centre is run by director Melissa Leach and co-directors Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling with STEPS members based at the Institute of Development Studies and SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research at Sussex University in the UK. We are overseen by an International Advisory Committee of globally renowned academics, policymakers, business and media professionals, chaired by Professor Judi Wakhungu, executive director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Kenya.
Head of Impact and Engagement
Convenor - Grassroots innovation project
Professor of Science Studies and co-director, CESAGEN, University of Lancaster
Professor Scientific Director and Theme leader Regime shifts, scales and sources of reorganisation in social-ecological systems, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Co-convenor, Energy and Climate Change
Nepal Academy of Science and Technology
Co-convenor - Intensification project
Convenor - Environmental Health project
Science writer and journalist
Health and Disease domain convenor
STEPS Centre Co-ordinator
Professor Science and Democracy, SPRU
Food and Agriculture domain convenor
Chair, STEPS Advisory Committee and Executive Director, African Centre for Technology Studies
Water and Sanitation domain convenor
Co-convenor - Livestock project
Professor, University of East Anglia
Impact, Communications and Engagement Officer
Co-convenor - Energy and climate change domain
Director, York Environmental Sustainabilty Institute
Convenor, Gene Campaign, Delhi
Global External Affairs Director, Unilever