Andy Kerr

Andy Kerr was appointed Director-General Net Zero in November 2025.

Dr Andy Kerr has held leadership roles in organisations including start-ups, commercial trading business, and innovation agencies over the past two decades. Most recently, as Chief Strategy Officer of Climate-KIC, Europe’s climate innovation agency, he was accountable for:

• the development and testing of systemic climate solutions in agri-food, forest and land use change 
• landscape-scale resilience
• city regeneration
• circular economy
• business start-ups

Previously, Andy was founding director of the award-winning Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), co-Director of Scotland’s Centre of Expertise on Climate Change, ClimateXChange, and a Professor of Practice at the University of Edinburgh.