Education
Sinha studied physics at the University of Bristol and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in renewable energy at Cambridge.
Sinha studied physics at the University of Bristol and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in renewable energy at Cambridge.
Following this he spent a number of years pursuing research into climate change science at Reading University and Imperial College, producing a variety of publications on climate feedback process. He then moved into policy analysis with Forum for the Future working on climate change-renewable energy policy proposals. Ashok Sinha was one of the group of United Kingdom non-governmental organization activists who founded the United Kingdom Make Poverty History campaign, serving on its governing body (and chairing its Policy & Lobbying Group) which he did whilst he was leading the Jubilee Debt Campaign.
In 2005 he became Director of the newly founded Stop Climate Chaos coalition.
Stop Climate Chaos was also instrumental in helping to secure the United Kingdom"s Climate Change Acting, helping to put a brake on the building of new unabated coal-fired power stations, and for delivering The Wave (ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen) which was at the time the biggest single climate change campaign event ever held globally. Sinha has also been a Board member (and Vice Chair) of Amnesty International United Kingdom and of the London Cycling Campaign.
He was listed as one of the United Kingdom"s top 100 Ethical Heroes by New Consumer magazine in 2007, one of the United Kingdom"s top 100 environmentalists by the Independent on Sunday in 2008, and one of London"s 1000 most influential people by the Evening Standard in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Ashok Sinha is currently Chief Executive of the London Cycling Campaign, leading the sustainable transport charity"s successful Love London, Go Dutch and Space for Cycling campaigns.