Biography
Ms Bernice Lee OBE is Distinguished Fellow and Senior Advisor at Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, an independent policy institute based in the United Kingdom. She chairs the Advisory Board of the Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator and Bellwethers Group, a non-profit organisation that activates influential networks to accelerate action on climate and nature. She serves on the boards of Energy Foundation China and Chapter Zero Alliance. She is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS) and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy Transition.
Previously, Ms Lee was Director of Climate Change at the World Economic Forum, and Director of Chatham House’s Energy, Environment, Global Economy, and Finance programmes and the Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy. She has also held positions at the UN Secretary-General’s office, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Aga Khan Foundation. She has served on the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation’s Climate Change Advisory Board, Shell’s External Review Committee, Neste’s Sustainability Council, Vale’s CEO Sounding Panel, and the UK Climate Change Committee’s International Advisory Group.
Ms Lee holds degrees from Oxford University and the London School of Economics, United Kingdom. In 2011, she was honoured as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE for her contributions to climate change cooperation.
Panel Discussion (2025) | Climate Change and International Cooperation: Educating in a Contested Space
