Alyssa Gilbert is the Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London where she leads Imperial’s climate change and sustainability innovation activities. She is the Director of Undaunted, a collaborative activity between Imperial and the Royal Institution that is seeking to create a home for climate innovation in London, supporting successful creation and scale up of businesses that tackle climate change. Prior to joining the university, she worked at a specialist energy and climate consultancy for nearly 12 years on a range of climate change mitigation and adaptation topics.