Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, sustainability theme lead at the Sussex School for Progressive Futures and co-founder of the Rapid Transition Alliance. He has previously worked at the universities of Oxford, Warwick, East Anglia in the UK and FLACSO Argentina. His research focuses on the global political economy of energy transitions, especially with regard to the phase out of fossil fuels which is the focus on an ERC/UKRI grant. His most recent books include Power Shift: The Global Political Economy of the Energy Transition, Changing Our Ways: Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis, Global Green Politics and States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society. In 2025 he was awarded the BISA prize for his distinguished contribution to the discipline of International Relations.
Daniela Soto Hernández is a Social Anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sussex working on the SUS-POL project. Her PhD in International Development in the same university, looked at decolonising debates around energy transition and lithium extraction in South America. She has worked as researcher and consultant for over 12 years and has published in journals such as Feminist Economics, Journal of Peasant Studies and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Freddie Daley is a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy University of Sussex and research and communications lead on the SUS-POL project. He is co-author of the book Changing Our Ways: Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis and articles in the journals Earth Systems Governance, Global Sustainability and Energy Research and Social Science.