Pete Falloon

Dr Pete Falloon leads the Met Office’s Climate Service for Defra on Food, Farming and Natural Environment. The service provides scientific advice on climate resilience and adaptation in the agri-food system to Defra. Pete has over 25 years of experience in modelling environmental systems, particularly the impacts of climate and land use change on agriculture, water, and soils. He has been at the Met Office Hadley Centre since 2004 and led the Climate Impacts Modelling team from 2009-2019, and was the Met Office Science Directorate’s Change Manager from 2020-2023. He is a contributing author to the UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment and a member of the Global Food Security Programme’s Programme Coordination Group board. Pete is also Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, and Sustainability Director at Food Drink Devon, which exists to promote quality, provenance and sustainability in Devon produce. Pete is also an honorary Associate at the Walker Institute. Alongside climate resilient food systems, Pete’s interests include soil (especially carbon), water, agriculture, land use and climate interactions.