The National Heat Risk Commission’s appoints its first Commissioners

Ashok Sinha is CEO of Ashden Climate Solutions. After a PhD in renewable energy, undertaking climate science research, and then conducting policy analysis with Forum for the Future, Ashok moved into advocacy. He has served on the board of Amnesty UK, co-founded Make Poverty History, was Director of Debt Justice, became the first Director of the Climate Coalition and was CEO of the London Cycling Campaign. Ashok is also Chair of the London Climate and Sustainability Commission, an independent advisory body to the London Mayor, and is a trustee of Friends of the Earth Charitable Trust.

Jane Davidson is Chair of Wales Net Zero 2035, an expert group convened between the Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru to examine potential pathways to net zero by 2035, and author of #futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country (2020), the story of why Wales was the first country in the world to introduce legislation to protect future generations. From 2000 to 2011 Jane was Minister for Education and then Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing in the Welsh Government, and proposed a law to make protecting future generations the central organising principle of government. The Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act came into law in 2015.

Dr Sally Uren OBE is Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer of international sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future, following eleven years (2013 – 2024) as Chief Executive. She has worked alongside many of the recognised leading businesses in sustainability, across the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and has delivered numerous multi-stakeholder collaborations. She founded the Climate and Health Coalition which aims to unlock private sector action at the intersection of climate and health. Since then Sally has been working with healthcare companies, food companies, insurers and infrastructure providers to galvanise action on issues as diverse as heat resilience and air pollution. Sally received an OBE for services to sustainability in business.

Yetunde Abdul is Programmes Director at the World Green Building Council and a Chartered Environmentalist with over 20 years’ experience in climate resilience and sustainability in the built environment. Previously Director of Industry Transformation at the UK Green Building Council, she has worked throughout her career across standards, policy, property and government, including developing climate adaptation criteria for international sustainability and resilience frameworks. She has also contributed her expertise to national policy discussions on climate resilience, including giving evidence to a House of Lords committee examining drought preparedness in 2025. Her work focuses on shaping a built environment that is more sustainable, resilient and responsive to the needs of people, places and a changing environment.