Kit is a Senior Climate Adaptation specialist with Paul Watkiss Associates, with over 15 years’ experience in adaptation planning. He specialises in place-based adaptation planning, adaptation economics and finance and just resilience. He has worked on a number of internationally significant initiatives and innovations at the forefront of adaptation planning, including establishing Climate Ready Clyde, Scotland’s first place-based adaptation partnership focused on transformational adaptation, the EU Mission on Adaptation, Adaptation Scotland’s work on adaptation finance, as well as leading technical work for the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce on adaptation.

He regularly advises Governments, NGOs and the private sector on systematic change for accelerating adaptation, including the Climate Change Committee, IEMA, OECD, DEFRA and HMT. He is currently part of the adaptation working group of the UK Green Taxonomy Advisory Group. He was a contributing author to the third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment’s business and industry chapter, a member of the BSi’s adaptation standards working group.