Simon Kerr

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Simon is the musical driving force of Music for a Warming World and has had a long history in the challenges of climate change. He taught environmental policy at Lincoln University in New Zealand for a number of years, and has a Masters of Applied Science in Environmental Management and a PhD in Political Ecology. He also has extensive research development experience at the University of Otago, The University of Melbourne and La Trobe University and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe and Engagement Lead on a 4 year Commonwealth Funded $12m Water and Environment Research Program on the Murray Darling Basin. In 2019 he attended the first Artists and Climate Change Incubator in Anchorage.

He started the Musicians Climate Crisis Network in 2019 and writes widely on the urgency of the planetary crisis. 

He is a communicator, able to translate the science and politics of climate change into music. Much of his songwriting over the years has addressed the challenges of living sustainably and well on a crowded planet. He also a written songs on many other topics, such a his infamous 'Zombie Bride Trilogy'

Christine Parker

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Christine is the co-producer of Music for a Warming World. She is also a Professor in the Law School at the University of Melbourne and an expert on business responses to legal regulation and social responsibilities, the impact of regulatory enforcement on business, lawyers' ethics and the regulation of lawyers.

She is now works on the politics, ethics and regulation of food and its impacts on planetary environmental boundaries and climate change. Christine has a deep interest in the way arts can be used to communicate social issues. She brings a lifetime of commitment to effective communication to this project.