Jane Burston

Burston studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2002.[1]

After graduating, Burston spent a year in Zambia running a computer recycling company.[1] She worked on climate policy for Transport for London and the Mayor of London's office.[2] Burston founded Carbon Retirement in 2008, a social enterprise that reformed emissions trading and carbon offsetting.[1] Carbon Retirement put pressure on countries and companies to embrace clean technology, by allowing them to buy and use up credits. In 2009 she was selected as a Climate Change Ambassador for the British Council.[3] Carbon Retirement partnered with the New York Stock Exchange in September 2011.[2]

Burston joined the National Physical Laboratory in 2012, where she founded the Centre for Carbon Measurement.[4][5] In 2011 Burston was named as one of Management Today's High Flying Women Under 35 and the Square Mile Social Entrepreneur of the Year.[6][7] The Centre for Carbon Measurement lab at the National Physical Laboratory was established in 2012 and looks at: carbon markets, low carbon technologies and climate data.[8][9] She began In 2012 Burston was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.[10][3][11] She won the 2012 Management Today Future Leaders Award.[12][1] She was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for the Future of Real Estate and Urbanization.[13] In 2015 she gave evidence at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[14] At National Physical Laboratory she led a team of 150 scientists and engineers.[15] She was named as one of the Top 20 Young People Globally by the International Chamber of Commerce in 2015 and a Friends of Europe European Young Leader: 40 under 40.[16] In August 2017 Burston joined the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as Deputy Director of Science for Climate and Energy. Burston became Managing Director at the Clean Air Fund in June 2018.[15]