Andrew Potts

Climate Change & Sustainability Advisor

Europa Nostra, United States

Andrew Potts is the Adviser to Europa Nostra and the European Heritage Hub on sustainability and climate action. Prior to joining Europa Nostra, Andrew founded and coordinated the Secretariat of the Climate Heritage Network (www.climateheritage.org).  Andrew’s work with the CHN continues at Europa Nostra, which is the Co-Chair of the CHN’s European Region. Andrew formerly served as the Coordinator of the Climate Change and Heritage Working Group of the Paris-based International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). A lawyer by training, his law practice originally focused on arranging public and private finance for the adaptive reuse of historic buildings and then expanded to financing for culture-based sustainable development projects more generally. He has made culture and climate change his focus since 2015.