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Professor Andrew Jordan is a Professor of Environmental Policy in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, where he serves as Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a position he formally assumed in May 2025 after serving as interim director from December 2024. He holds a BSc in Geography with first-class honours from the University of Hull (1989), an MSc in Environmental Pollution Control from the University of Manchester (1990), and a PhD from the University of East Anglia (1997). Jordan joined UEA in 1992 as a research associate at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and progressed through roles including lecturer, reader, and professor of environmental policy in 2007.

His research focuses on environmental politics and policy making, including the governance of climate change, policy instruments, coordination across sectors, policy innovation, and policy dismantling, with extensive comparative work on the European Union and its Member States. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including The Tools of Policy Formulation (Edward Elgar, 2015, with John Turnpenny) and Durable by Design? (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with Brendan Moore), along with many edited volumes and highly cited papers on environmental governance. Jordan is among the world’s most highly cited researchers in environmental policy, climate policy, and environmental politics. He has received awards including the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2003), election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2008), a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2010–2013), Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (2018), and Fellow of the British Academy (2022). He has served on advisory bodies such as the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, and DEFRA’s Science Advisory Council, and holds positions on editorial boards including West European Politics, Policy Sciences, and Environmental Politics. He is currently leading an ERC Advanced Grant project on deep decarbonisation.