The Team
The Prize is run by a small team with expertise in the publishing industry and book prizes.
Ben O’Donnell – Project Manager
Helen Mockridge – Head of Communications and PR
Sara Oberthaler – Climate Spring’s Head of Communications, supporting the Prize communications
The Founders
The Climate Fiction Book Prize was founded and is advised by a team of publishing, book prize and climate experts.
The Prize’s founders are Lucy Stone (Executive Director of global climate storytelling organisation, Climate Spring), Leo Barasi (climate non-fiction author), Rose Goddard (former Prize Manager of the Women’s Prize for Fiction), and Imran Khan (former Head of Public Engagement at the Wellcome Trust, now at UC Berkeley)
Advisory Group
The Prize’s advisory group includes Dr Friederike Otto (Imperial College London and World Weather Attribution), Alex Evans (Larger Us), Jessica Woollard (David Higham) and Wren James (author and founder, Climate Fiction Writers’ League).