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Andy Parker is a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), in Potsdam, Germany, where his research focuses on the governance and politics of solar geoengineering.

Before joining IASS he spent two years as a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the Harvard Kennedy School, and four years as a senior policy advisor for ernergy and climate change at the Royal Society. He the Society's work on geoengineering, including the production of the 2009 report Geoengineering the Climate, and the SRM Governance Initiative (SRMGI). As the lead coordinator with SRMGI since its inception in 2010 he planned and ran geoengineering outreach meetings in India, China, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa and Ethiopia. He was also a member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's expert working group on geoengineering and co-led the Royal Society's policy work on climate change, environment and energy. Andy has an MSc in international policy analysis from the University of Bath and a BSc in psychology from the University of Warwick.