Kai Heron is a political organiser, trade unionist, and Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. He is the co-editor of the De Gruyter Degrowth Handbook and has published widely on the politics of green energy in New Statesman, Sidecar, and Jacobin, among other media.

He is the co-director of the progressive policy platform Abundance. His most recent book, co-authored with Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell, is Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.