Dr. Richenda Connell: CTO and Co-founder

Richenda is the CTO and Co-founder of Acclimatise. She manages the development of our products and services, ensuring that the company remains at the cutting-edge of best practice in climate risk management.

She has 15 years expertise working at the interface between decision-making and scientific issues, on climate change, air pollution and environmental impact assessment. She was formerly Technical Director at the UK Climate Impacts Programme, where she co-developed the world’s first web-based climate adaptation tool and the UKCIP climate risk management framework, now recommended in UN and World Bank guidance. Richenda has helped several hundred UK public and private sector organisations assess and manage their climate risks over the last 7 years.