Tristan Norman

Tristan Norman is an affiliated researcher at SEI Oxford. He is also an affiliated research associate with the Environment & Development Resource Centre, and he serves as an expert group member in Project Climate and Security Action (CASA) focused on civil-military cooperation for climate-related emergencies. 

His emerging expertise is on climate-related security risks, civil preparedness, societal resilience, transboundary climate risks, and relations between the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO).  He has skills and experience in risk assessment, disaster risk and response management, preparedness and contingency planning, facilitation and moderation, and policy research.

As a visiting researcher and intern at SEI headquarters in Stockholm, Tristan conducted an internal scoping and roundtable on climate and security across SEI Centres to explore how climate-related and geopolitical security risks influence the SEI strategy. He has collaborated with the Adaptation Without Borders global partnership, the CROSS-CASCADE network, and with SEI colleagues from SEI Oxford and SEI headquarters. Prior to this, he was a climate and sustainability programs officer at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy Tokyo and a research intern at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs at its headquarters in New York.

Tristan is finishing a MSc in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation from Lund University. His thesis there focuses on EU-NATO policy coordination on cascading climate risks and the implications for European critical infrastructure resilience. He holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Hendrix College in the US.