Kate Hampton
Climate Change Capital, UK
Kate Hampton is a manager in Climate Change Capital's Advisory Team and is responsible for CCC's relations with the policy community. Climate Change Capital is a specialist merchant bank. Kate rejoined the company from a year's secondment as a Senior Policy Advisor to DEFRA for the UK's G8 and EU Presidencies. Kate is currently a Sherpa to the EU High Level Group on Competitiveness, Energy and Environment, advising the European Commission.
Biography
Before joining CCC, Kate was Head of the Climate Change Campaign for Friends of the Earth International. She is the former Convenor of the Green Globe Network, an expert advisory group funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She was a research associate at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC and an EU policy consultant for Environmental Resources Management. Kate holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.