Mark Watts has served as the Executive Director for C40 Cities Climate Leadership

Group since December 2013. Prior to joining C40, Mark was the Director of consultancy

firm, Arup’s, energy and climate change team. Earlier in his career, he was the climate

change and sustainable transport adviser to the Mayor of London, in which role the

London Evening Standard described him as “the intellectual force behind Ken

Livingstone’s drive to make London a leading light of the battle against global warming.”

Mark is a Senior Associate of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability

Leadership, a member of the Council of the Global Green Growth Institute, and a

member of the Yale Climate Dialogue.