Dr Niki Rust

Head of Land, Agriculture and Nature, The UK Climate Change Committee

Dr Niki Rust heads up the Land, Agriculture and Nature team at the Climate Change Committee.

Niki is an environmental sustainability leader, having worked on the interface between nature, agriculture and climate for the last 15 years, both domestically and internationally. Prior to coming to the CCC, she worked on food and agricultural policy and analyses at Defra and the Food Standards Agency. She has also researched and taught at Newcastle University on sustainable European food and agricultural topics and has worked at environmental NGOs on land use issues. Her PhD was on how livestock farming and nature conservation could support each other.