Susannah Fisher is a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, where she leads action research projects supporting national and sub-national governments to adapt to climate change in different contexts.  Her areas of focus at IIED are the monitoring and evaluation of climate change adaptation including measuring vulnerability and resilience, and national and urban planning for climate change.

In 2015-16, she was seconded to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa where she worked with the African Climate Policy Centre on supporting national planning for climate change. Previously, she worked with the adaptation and development research stream at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics (LSE) on water governance under future climate change in South Asia and Africa, the use of insurance for adaptation and the National Adaptation Programme for England.  She has also worked as a policy advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and in public sector consultancy.

She holds a PhD from the Geography Department at the University of Cambridge on the politics and governance of climate change in cities and has published a range of policy-relevant publications as well as peer-reviewed articles and research papers on a range of topics around climate justice, planning and policy. Susannah has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Cambridge, UCL and the LSE and led courses and training for professionals.