Mirte is Senior Advisor and Co-founder at Carbon Balance Initiative and a Research Associate at Oxford Net Zero. Her work focuses on ‘polluter pays’ frameworks, carbon storage and removal policy, and transition pathways for hard-to-abate sectors like oil and gas. She has over a decade of climate policy experience, from co-managing the responsible investment NGO Follow This to working in the UK Civil Service and co-chairing Labour for the Long Term, aiming to advise policymakers on resilience and long-term policy thinking. Mirte holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative.

In her free time, Mirte enjoys climbing mountains, dancing in muddy fields, and political debates in the pub.