One big challenge, seen from four very different perspectives.
At our London Reception on 14 May 2024, two current and two former members of Queen’s discussed what excites them about their work and compared ideas about how to help change the future. Setting electricity prices through the National Grid, designing policies to meet Net Zero, capturing ecological grief in works of art, and using biology to design plants to reduce carbon emissions, all have a part to play in meeting the collective challenges of sustainability in the 21st century.
The evening brought together Sara Habib (Mathematics and Philosophy, 1997), Head of Future Price Controls at National Grid), Matthew Bilson (MSc Energy Systems, 2020), Director – Policy & Market Strategy at Piclo, who previously worked for 20 years on UK energy policy, Xinyue Liu (DPhil Fine Art, 2022), and Professor Steve Kelly (Queen’s Fellow in Biology).