Dr. Elena López-Gunn
Dr. Elena López-Gunn founded the research company ICATALIST, which is primarily focused on sustainability and climate change adaptation research. She currently works as director of ICATALIST and as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Elcano Institute. She is a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC). She is an EU Climate Pact ambassador, and part of the UNESCO Task Force on a Science Based Water Assessment.
Elena participated in Spain’s latest national climate change impact assessment leading the chapter on water and is currently involved in the expert panel for the new Risk assessment for the future Spanish national Adaptation plan. She serves as expert member in the Citizen Climate Assembly in Spain and contributed to the 6th IPCC Assessment Report. She has a PhD from King's College, concluded her PhD in Geography at the King’s College, London, and was research fellow at the University of Leeds, the Botin Foundation Water Observatory and at the London School of Economics. She also has a Masters from the University of Cambridge and a Master in Investigative Journalism data and Visualization from Juan Carlos I University. Besides, she also worked as Associate Professor at IE Business school in Madrid (Spain).