Andy Parker is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, where his research focuses on the governance and politics of solar geoengineering. Before joining the IASS in August 2014, he spent two years as a research fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and four years as a senior policy advisor at the Royal Society. Leading the Society’s policy work on climate change and energy, he was in charge of the production of the report Geoengineering the Climate: Science, governance and uncertainty (The Royal Society, 2009), and project director for the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI). He was also a member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s expert working group on geoengineering, and as the lead coordinator of SRMGI he has run geoengineering outreach meetings around Asia and Africa. Previously, Andy researched and wrote on human security for the Canadian government and worked in home energy efficiency. He has an MSc in international policy analysis from the University of Bath and a BSc in psychology from the University of Warwick (both UK).