Profile
Freya Newman
Advisor, Groundswell
Freya is an Advisor to Groundswell, a joint project by the Bezos Earth Fund, Global Optimism, and the Systems Change Lab. Groundswell supports a diverse and distributed chorus of voices to shape a narrative of courage and possibility, which essentially says: it’s not too late to achieve our Paris goals.
Freya was previously part of The Climate Pledge team at Global Optimism and helped build the corporate climate initiative from its inception. Prior to joining Global Optimism, Freya spent time at UN Climate Change as part of the Loss and Damage team and worked with the Natural Environment Research Council investigating the response of tropical forests to climate change.
Freya holds a BSc (Hons) in Physical Geography from the University of Exeter and an MSc by Research in Geography on earth system modelling. Her masters research, published in Nature Communications, developed a new formulation for modelling and understanding plant respiration.
Freya holds a BSc (Hons) in Physical Geography from the University of Exeter and an MSc by Research in Geography on earth system modelling. Her masters research, published in Nature Communications, developed a new formulation for modelling and understanding plant respiration.