Jane Burston

Contributing Author

Jane Burston, Head of the Centre for Carbon Management, National Physical Laboratory.

Jane is responsible for managing the work of 120 scientists on climate science, emissions monitoring and low carbon technologies.

Jane is a Trustee of the campaigning NGO Sandbag, a board member of the Natural Environment Research Council’s Doctoral Training Programme across five London universities, and a member of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Urbanisation. She also lectures on topics including social enterprise and carbon markets on masters and MBA programmes.

Previously Jane was Founder and CEO of Carbon Retirement, a social enterprise reforming emissions trading and carbon offsetting. In 2011 she was named in Management Today’s ‘35 high-flying women under 35’ list and as Square Mile magazine’s ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year’, and in 2012 as Management Today’s top ‘Non-profiteer’.

More recently, Jane has been selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, alongside numerous Professors, Ministers and business leaders from around the world.