About IPPR
Simon Retallack
Simon Retallack
Associate Director
+44 (0)20 7470 6152
s.retallack@ippr.org
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Teams
Global Change
Areas of Expertise
Simon is the head of ippr's Climate Change team and oversees ippr’s Low Carbon Programme. He specialises in climate change policy and has written about most of the world’s other major environmental problems.
Simon was named one of the New Statesman’s ‘Best of young British’ in 2001 and in 2007 was named one of the UK's ‘most influential people under 40’ by Harper's Bazaar magazine.
He is the author of ippr’s 2005 report on Setting a Long Term Climate Objective, co-author of ippr's 2006 report Trading Up: reforming the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and co-author of ippr's 2007 report Positive Energy: harnessing people power to prevent climate change .
Press experience
Broadcast: BBC Breakfast News, BBC 2's Newsnight, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC News 24, BBC Four News, BBC World, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC World Service, Sky News, Five News, Tonight with Trevor MacDonald, LCR, Deutsche Welle, France Inter, France Culture, LCI TV, Canal+, SABC TV and Radio, RTE.
Print: Observer, New Statesman, Prospect, Big Issue, Your Life, Third World Resurgence, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist. Web: The Guardian, Open Democracy.
Previous work
Simon was lead researcher for the International Climate Change Taskforce; Co-Director of the Climate Initatives Fund; Commissioning Editor, The Ecologist; Managing Editor, The Ecologist Special Issues; Visiting Fellow, the International Forum on Globalization, San Francisco; a member of the Board of Directors of Redefining Progress; and a member of the steering committee of the Climate and Energy Funders Group (USA). Simon studied at the London School of Economics (First Class Honours in Government and History).
Simon is also an associate of the International Forum on Globalization.
Other publications
Cambiare aria al mondo, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2005 (contributing author); STOP, Le Seuil, 2003 (co-author); Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible, Berrett-Koehler, 2002 (contributing author); The Case Against the Global Economy, Earthscan, 2001 (contributing author);
Climate Crisis, Climate Initiatives Fund, 2001 (author); The Impact of economic globalisation on the natural environment, IFG, 1999 (co-author).
Capable Communities
Public Service Reform: The next chapter
In this paper we turn our attention to the role citizens and communities can play in directly producing services, setting out the challenges that lie ahead, and identifying the questions our research will seek to answer over the coming months.
The English Question
ippr surveys MPs
ippr has conducted a survey of MPs to find out if they think that England is losing out as a result of these changes, as many people have claimed.
You Can’t Put Me In A Box
Super-diversity and the end of identity politics in Britain
This paper attempts to map out just how diverse Britain is, both in terms of who lives in Britain and how they identify themselves.