OXFORD MARTIN - Key Persons
Aki joined the Oxford Martin School in June 2022 as a Sprint Coordinator for the AGILE Initiative.
Prior to joining the team, Aki worked on the nexus between environmental policy and development at national and international levels. She managed projects at UNESCO, OECD, and UNEP focusing on the areas of: water resources management, financing urban water supply and sanitation, sustainable development, urban resilience, and the circular economy.
Alena has an academic and professional background in food security and international development. She holds an MSc in Human Development and Food Security, which she completed in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
Her research explored the dynamics between high seas fishing and low-income coastal countries. She has worked for several years in sustainable small-scale fisheries projects in Mauritania with the German Development Agency (GIZ).
As part of her current Biology DPhil research, she is dedicated to identifying sustainable methods to decrease the environmental impact of shrimp farming in Viet Nam. Alena employs a range of research methodologies, including primary data collection, environmental and socio-economic trend analysis, and qualitative behaviour change research. She is utilising HESTIA to standardise environmental data, and hence conduct a longitudinal life cycle assessment of shrimp farming in the Mekong River Delta to identify changes and trends of the sector. In addition, her research on farmer behaviour will be closely linked to the farmer toolkit that will be developed by HESTIA to help design long-lasting sustainability interventions.'
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- Researcher, Department of Biology
I manage and collaborate on the delivery of several research and knowledge-exchange outputs for the Nature-based Solutions initiative.
This includes a systematic review of the evidence base on the effectiveness Nature-based Solutions for climate change adaptation and collaborating on the design and generating content for the Nature-based Solutions Initiative platform. My aim is to support innovative interdisciplinary research and the development of transdisciplinary collaborations as pathways to impact at the nexus of development, climate change, and biodiversity issues.
I have a background in biology (BA Rutgers U., 2009) and ecology (MSc U. Lausanne, 2012), and an interdisciplinary MSc in Conservation Science from Imperial College (2016). I have worked in Central America and sub-Saharan Africa conducting both social and ecological research, including research on the demand side drivers of the bushmeat supply chain in Congo-Brazzaville, human-wildlife conflict mitigation in Kenya, and the impacts of climate and food availability on barn owl reproduction in Switzerland. I also hold over two years of editorial experience in publishing, including as a journal manager for Frontiers in Switzerland.
I am a natural scientist with 20 years of experience as an environmental consultant, specialising in climate policy.
For the last five years I have been a researcher at the Environmental Change Institute in the School of Geography and the Environment, where I am developing and testing practical methods of mapping and measuring natural capital and the ecosystem services it provides. My main interest is in the synergies and trade-offs between different approaches to tackling societal challenges, and I see nature-based solutions and green infrastructure as having a strong role to play in providing multiple benefits for climate adaptation, mitigation, biodiversity and human well-being.
Amanda Power is an historian of religion, power and intellectual life in medieval Europe.
She has been involved in developing the field of global medieval history, and new approaches to historical study that speak to the concerns of the mounting climate and environmental crisis.
She is currently working on a monograph, Medieval Histories of the Anthropocene, which explores questions concerning the relations between religion, power and the construction of public rationality in the building of medieval states across Eurasia. She is interested in how these centralising processes consciously dislocated humans from local ecosystems and specific and sustainable practices, while creating powerful and enduring narratives about civilisation, barbarism, and the use of resources.
Amir's research examines the effects of companies' financial and non-financial information disclosures on capital markets and the mediating role of accounting standards and information intermediaries.
Amir's research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Financial Analyst Journal. His work has been cited by the business press such as the Financial Times and the Guardian as well as in a variety of policy documents by the EU, Bank of International Settlements, IMF, World Economic Forum and by accounting standard setters.
Amir has been invited to present his research at conferences and business schools across the globe and held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, at New York University Stern School of Business, at Columbia Business School, and at the University of Bologna. Prior to joining Oxford Saïd, Amir was at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
He teaches on the MBA and Executive MBA as well as on executive programmes for legal and financial services professionals. He has taught or consulted for the financial services industry in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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- Communications and Media Manager
- Press and Media Enquiries
Amjad Parkar joined the Oxford Martin School in September 2023 from the University of Oxford's central Public Affairs Directorate.
At the directorate, he led on communicating the University's vaccine research and, most recently, managed its corporate communications.
He has accumulated extensive experience in PR, communications and journalism in the UK and abroad.
Amjad leads the communication of the aims, outcomes and achievements of the School, utilising his research communications expertise.
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- Co - Founder, Chairman Emeritus & Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
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- Global Head of Research at Citi
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- Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford
Andrew Smith is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Magdalen College.
He has special interests in plant adaptations to environmental stress, including studies of the impact of water deficits, salinity, and metal-rich soils on plant growth and productivity. He has undertaken extensive research on plant water-use in arid environments and is a leading authority on succulent plants and CAM photosynthesis, publishing widely on their ecology, evolution, physiology and metabolism.
His interests have expanded to investigating succulent plants as potential bioenergy crops in marginal environments, conducting the first complete life cycle analysis of such crops in collaboration with Prof. David King's group at the Smith School. More recently, he has also contributed to annotation of the first fully sequenced genomes of succulent plants such as the pineapple in projects led by international consortia. He is the lead contact for Bioenergy in the Oxford Energy Network.
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- Professor of Global & Imperial
Andy Thompson is Professor of Global & Imperial History at Nuffield College and Co-Director of the Oxford Global History Centre.
He was previously the Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the International Champion for UK Research and InnovatIon. He was awarded a CBE for his "services to research" in 2021.
Andy is writing a book for Oxford University Press: "Humanitarianism on Trial: How a Global System of Aid and Development Emerged from the End of Empire". Alongside this, he is the PI on an AHRC-funded project, "International NGOs and the Long Humanitarian Century: Legacy, Legitimacy and Leading into the Future". He has spoken about his research on the past, present and future of humanitarianism and human rights to the senior executive groups of the United Nations Development Programme, the UK Disasters Emergency Committee, and the US-based NGO consortia InterAction.
He is currently advising former Prime Minister Theresa May on setting up a Global Commission on Modern Slavery having secured in 2016 a £10m investment from the UK government for the world's first designated research centre into human trafficking. He has a long-standing interest in postcolonial migrations and was also involved in advising the Windrush Lessons Learned Review and commenting on its final report in draft.
Anna is Administrative Assistant for the OMPTEC, Future of Development, and Future of Work research groups. She is also Personal Assistant to Professor Ian Goldin.
Prior to coming to Oxford, Anna was based in Exeter, where she completed her BA in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, with a particular focus on Geopolitics and Sustainable Development.
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- Programmes and Research Manager
Anne-Charlotte joined the Oxford Martin School in May 2023 working as a Programme and Research Manager for the Oxford Martin Programmes on the Future of Work, Future of Development and Technological and Economic Change.
Prior to joining the School, Anne-Charlotte worked for eight years in international development in various settings including NGOs, social businesses and private foundations. So far, she has worked for organisations in Tanzania, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Nepal, Brazil, France and the UK, in project management, programme management, M&E, finance and managerial capacities.
Anne-Charlotte holds a BSc in Maths and Physics, as well as an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from a French "Grande école". Before transitioning to international development, she started her career as an IT and management consultant in a large French software firm.
Anne-Charlotte's interests lie in the intersection of global development and technologies. She is a strong supporter of gender-equality initiatives and a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Antonella works on the role of gender and local cultures in the understanding of energy practices and energy consumption at individual and household level. For the Future of Cooling programme, she will investigate the interplays between culture, identity and social relations in cooling energy household practices.
Antonella holds a PhD in 'Energy Transition in the Brazilian Amazon. A Gender Perspective' from King's College London. In her thesis she explored the impacts of energy access on local productive activities, health and gender relations in ethno-cultural communities in the Brazilian Amazon. She also worked on a project exploring the effectiveness of 'Energy Safety Nets' in low-income and marginalised groups in Brazil. Antonella holds a BA in Theoretical Philosophy and Languages from the University of Bari.
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- Consultant
- Advisor to the NICE Epilepsy Guidelines
- Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group
- Professor
Professor Arjune Sen is appointed as Consultant Neurologist at The John Radcliffe Hospital, NIHR BRC Senior Research Fellow in Epileptology, Professor of Global Epilepsy at the University of Oxford and is Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group.
He is interested in global epileptology and comorbidities experienced by people with epilepsy. He retains a key interest in epilepsy genomics; is a principal investigator of the EPIGEN Consortium and has organised two of the recent annual EPIGEN meetings. He leads projects concentrating on deep phenotyping.
Arjune is the current topic advisor to the NICE Epilepsy Guidelines; council member of the ILAE British Chapter and overseas director at the Institute of Neuroscience in Kolkata. His total grant portfolio, as a chief investigator, exceeds £8.2M and he is the UK lead investigator for multiple studies and trials. He supervises 6 current PhD students; has published 8 Chapters in the past 5 years and Guest Edited recent Special Editions for Seizure (2020) and Epilepsy & Behavior (2019).
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- Chief Executive Officer, Menhaden Capital, and Founding Partner, WHEB Group
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- Professor of Econometrics
Bent Nielsen is Professor of Econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Nuffield College. His research interests are econometric and statistical theory, in particular:
the theoretical properties of algorithms such as the Forward Search and Autometrics;
cohort models such as the age-period-cohort model and the chain ladder method used to forecast future liabilities in general insurance.
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Lightcast
- Visiting Fellow
Bledi Taska is the Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Lightcast. He is a labour economist specialising in the application of econometrics and data science methods on real-time labour market data. At Lightcast Bledi leads a team of economists and data scientists, which supports the company's public policy research, product development, and collaboration with academic researchers and international organisations.
Current projects involve topics around skills mismatch and labour shortages, the future of skills, the effect of automation, and reskilling of workers based on skill adjacencies. Bledi has been invited to present at conferences organised by BLS, UNESCO, CEDEFOP, OECD, World Bank, ILO, IZA, and NESTA among others.
Bledi's work at Lightcast has been published or featured in several popular media outlets from all over the world, such as the Australian Financial Review, the Daily Telegraph, the Economist, France 24, the Financial Times, The Guardian, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Bledi holds a doctorate degree in economics from New York University with a concentration in labour and education economics and a master's and bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Athens, Greece. His academic work has been published in leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Research Policy, and Labour Economics.
Boyd van Dijk is an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Changing Global Orders programme, Research Associate at the Faculty of History, and a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow, Nuffield College.
His research interests focus on international organizations, international law, food security, humanitarianism, and mass violence. He previously taught at King's College London, LSE, and Queen Mary and was a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
His latest monograph, Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions, came out in 2022 with Oxford University Press. It has received the 2023 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law from the American Society of International Law. He also published essays and articles for Past & Present, The American Journal of International Law, Humanity, Law and History Review, as well as for magazines (Le Grand Continent) and newspapers (Washington Post).
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- Lead Researcher and Project Manager of the Oxford University Economic Recovery Project
Brian is Lead Researcher and Project Manager of the Oxford University Economic Recovery Project, which he launched in May 2020 with Professor Cameron Hepburn.
He is an Australian Rhodes Scholar and Consultant at the Robertson Foundation, covering topics in Energy and the Environment. He is also a consultant to government and business groups on issues relating to the energy and climate transitions. Brian is on a leave of absence from the Boston Consulting Group.
Brian's core research concerns the economic impacts of fiscal spending. He is particularly interested in the role that green fiscal spending initiatives can have in times of economic contraction and in 2020 co-authored the seminal work Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?
His supplementary research interests include the economics of green hydrogen and methods for reducing perceived risk in renewable energy finance. His doctoral research is supervised by Professor Cameron Hepburn.
Brian holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Sydney in Engineering (First class Honours with the University Medal) and Commerce (Finance and International Business).
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- Member of the Central Team
- Project Administrator
- Research Projects Administrator
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- Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy
- Associate Professor in Philosophy
Carissa Véliz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford.
Her research focuses on ethics and AI, moral and political philosophy more generally, and public policy. She is the author of Privacy Is Power (Transworld, 2020), and The Ethics of Privacy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), as well as the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (forthcoming). Carissa completed her DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
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- Lead International Operations
Carolin is the Lead International Operations at the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC), based at the Department of Computer Science.
In this role, Carolin is responsible for stakeholder engagement and the deployment of the centre's Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations (CMM). She has co-authored a number of CMM reviews in Africa, Asia and Europe and contributed to best practice guides and research outputs in the field of cybersecurity capacity-building. Carolin is also Co-Lead of the Task Force "Strategy & Assessments" of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) and member of the Steering Committee of CYBIL, the GFCE's Cyber Capacity Knowledge Portal.
Previously, Carolin was an account manager in the German advertising industry, working for BMW and other clients from the automotive and financial sectors, and worked as a communications consultant in the Ghana Credit Union Association and for the German development agency GIZ. Carolin holds an MSc in Media, Communication and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in German Literature and Cultural Management from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
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- Director
- Director, Oxford Martin School
- Ex - Officio
Professor Sir Charles Godfray is a population biologist with broad interests in the environmental sciences and has published in fundamental and applied areas of ecology, evolution and epidemiology.
Charlotte has worked in the technology space predominantly within financial services for over 20 years.
She has delivered a variety of initiatives for a range of firms from start-ups to big corporates. Charlotte is self-employed and studying towards a degree in Astronomy and Planetary Science.
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- Member of the Management Committee
- Pro Vice - Chancellor ( Innovation )
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- Events and Venue
- Events and Venue Manager
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Research Assistant
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- Member of the Management Committee
- Head of the Humanities Division / Advisory Council
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Professor of Development Economics
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- Fellow
- Researcher and Director of Research at the Programme
Aliaksandr is a postdoctoral researcher and Director of Research at the Programme on Democracy and Technology at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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- Researcher at Our World in Data
Dr Bastian Herre is a Researcher at Our World in Data, and he is also a Project Lead at Global Change Data Lab, the non-profit organization that publishes and maintains the website and the data tools that make its work possible.
Bastian leads Our World in Data's work on democracy and conflict. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an MA in Political Science and Economics from Heidelberg University.
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- Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance
- Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise
Dr Ben Caldecott is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. At the University of Oxford, he is the inaugural Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance, the first ever endowed professorship of sustainable finance, and a Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. Ben is also the founding Director and Principal Investigator of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI), established by UK Research and Innovation in 2021 as the national centre to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally. He is a Visiting Professor at the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore.
Ben specialises in environment, energy, and sustainability issues and works at the intersection between finance, public policy, and academe, having held senior roles in each domain. He has authored and edited a substantial number of publications related to sustainability and is an experienced media commentator and public speaker. His expertise and expert evidence have been recognised in high profile legal cases, including in the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of England and Wales. He is a regular peer reviewer and has a number of trustee, board, and advisory panel appointments, including serving on the UK Climate Change Committee's Adaptation Committee, DBS Bank's Board Sustainability Committee, UK Export Finance's Export Guarantees Advisory Council, and as a Trustee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
He has conceived and initiated a series of successful organisations, initiatives, and programmes related to sustainable finance. Ben founded and served for six years as the inaugural Co-Chair of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), an alliance of global research universities promoting rigorous and impactful academic research on sustainable finance. He is Chair of the Judging Panel for the annual Insight Investment - University of Oxford Prize for Greening Finance, endowed in perpetuity to celebrate, showcase, and financially reward world-leading research and public service to green the global financial system. He established and leads the Sustainable Finance Theme at The Alan Turing Institute and initiated the Spatial Finance Initiative, which aims to mainstream geospatial capabilities enabled by space technology and data science into financial decision-making globally. He co-founded and serves on the board of the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), which is examining the legal basis for directors and trustees to consider, manage, and report on climate-related risk, and the circumstances in which they may be liable for failing to do so. He established and is the Faculty Chair of the Public and Third Sector Academy for Sustainable Finance (P3SA) at the University of Oxford, a global centre of learning on sustainable finance for the public and third sectors. Ben is also a Co-Director for the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery where he leads its work on finance.
Ben is Co-Head of the Secretariat for the high-level Transition Plan Taskforce established by HM Treasury in 2022. From 2019, he was seconded part-time to the UK Cabinet Office for two years to work on COP26 in Glasgow as the COP26 Strategy Advisor for Finance. He has also served on the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee, the UK Government's Green Technical Advisory Group, and in his capacity as a Member of the UK Green Finance Taskforce, chaired its Workstream on Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Implementation. He serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism.
Ben is an advisor to financial institutions across different parts of the financial system internationally, including as a Senior Advisor at Global Infrastructure Partners and by serving on Neuberger Berman's ESG Advisory Council, Columbia Threadneedle Investments' Responsible Investment Advisory Council, ATLAS Infrastructure Partners' Climate Advisory Board, and Climate Impact X's International Advisory Council.
Ben teaches and supervises a wide range of students at the University of Oxford and beyond. In addition to supervising Ph.D./D.Phil. students, he established and leads B.A., M.Sc., and M.Phil. options and electives on finance and sustainability. He is an experienced lecturer and tutor and has created and course directs a number of executive education courses at Oxford each year, including the Sustainable Finance Executive Programme. He contributes to training and capacity building across different finance professions internationally, including as the Academic Advisor to the CFA UK Certificate in Climate and Investing and as lead author of the Global Association of Risk Professional's Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate textbook. He has previously served as an Academic Associate at the Chartered Banker Institute and on the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' ESG Investment Working Party. He serves on the judging panel for the annual Banque de France Prize for Young Researchers in Green Finance and has done so since its creation in 2018.
Prior to joining the University of Oxford, he was a Vice President at investment bank Climate Change Capital, one of the early leading asset management and advisory firms focused on the net zero carbon transition, where he ran the firm's research centre and advised clients and funds on the development of policy-driven markets. Ben has previously worked as Research Director for Environment and Energy at the think tank Policy Exchange; as Head of Government Advisory at Bloomberg New Energy Finance; as a Director in the Strategy Directorate of the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (on secondment); as a Deputy Director in the Strategy Directorate of the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (on secondment); as an Advisor to The Prince of Wales' International Sustainability Unit; as Sherpa to the UK Green Investment Bank Commission; and as the Senior Advisor to the Chair and CEO of the UK Green Finance Institute. He also served as Trustee of the Green Alliance from 2010 to 2022.
Ben holds a doctorate in economic geography from the University of Oxford. He initially read economics and specialised in development and China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and the University of Cambridge. He has been an Academic Visitor at the Bank of England, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Peking University, and held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Sydney, and the University of Melbourne. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. Ben is also a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Payne Institute for Earth Resources at the Colorado School of Mines.
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- Departmental Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Dr Caitlin McElroy is a Departmental Research lecturer in Enterprise and the Environment at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE) and the School of Geography and the Environment. Her research addresses improving the sustainability and development of resource driven economies, advancing the circular economy of mineral resources, and the complicated relationships between finance, equality, and environmental services (cooling and water) in developed and developing economies.
Caitlin is an economic geographer and her research has engaged with institutional theory, financial geography, science and technology studies, and environmental justice. Current research includes leading on Circular Resourcing, a related circular economy focused workstream as part of the Future of Cooling programme, and ongoing research on Sharing Resource Prosperity. She is also involved in partnerships to create tools to assist corporations, governments, and investors in the management of their environmental and social risks and opportunities such as with DAMSAT, a satellite-based dam monitoring project funded by the UK Space Agency. Support for her research has also come from the Oxford Martin School, The John Fell Fund, and as part of UpGro (NERC/ESRC/DFID).
Caitlin established and is the director of the Smith School's executive education programme. Started in 2014, the programme has run bespoke courses for a range of organisations such as environmental judges selected by the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, institutional investors, and energy majors. It also runs a range of open-enrolment courses across the research areas of the SSEE.
Caitlin holds a BA (with Honours) from the University of Pennsylvania in History and Environmental Studies, an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy (with Distinction) and a DPhil in economic geography (Clarendon Scholar), both from the University of Oxford.
Cecilia is a postdoctoral fellow working on the Oxford Martin School-TNC Climate Partnership project 'Building resilience to climate change in the Amazon' - a project that aims to understand the interactions between climate change mitigation interventions and the wider social and economic landscape, focused in the Brazilian Amazon.
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- Director
- Director of the Oxford Martin Programme
Dr Christian Johannes Meyer is the Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development at the University of Oxford. At the University, he is also affiliated with the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) and the Mind & Behaviour Research Group.
Meyer's research interest lies at the intersection of development, labour, and behavioral economics. Most of his work uses laboratory and field experiments in close cooperation with partner organizations, combined with original data collection.
Before joining the Oxford Martin School, Meyer was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining the University, Meyer worked with the World Bank, the Center for Global Development, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute.
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- James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance
- Our Founder
James Martin has been described as "the man who predicted the future." His Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1978 book The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow contained remarkably accurate descriptions of how computerisation, telecommunications and the rise of the internet would change the world.
Throughout his prolific writing career-during which he authored over 100 textbooks, many of them seminal in their field-he foresaw the challenges that modern technology, connectivity and economics would bring. He discussed the fall of printed newspapers and the rise of 24-hour rolling news, he warned against the growing extremes of wealth and income inequality, and even anticipated the ubiquity of mobile phones, online dating and "designer" babies.
One of his major concerns was that people with deep but narrow skillsets were losing the ability to think in the broader contexts necessary to be effective in tackling the big questions confronting us.
James Martin founded the Oxford Martin School in 2005 with the largest benefaction to the University of Oxford in its more than 900-year history.
His vision was that the School should be unique in bringing together teams of researchers from across disciplines to innovate and find solutions to the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
James Martin held honorary doctorate degrees from six continents. He was an alumnus and Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, an Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a Senior Fellow and Benefactor of the James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at Monterey, California. He was recipient of numerous awards, including the Sheldon Medal, the highest honour the University of Oxford can bestow, and the Sydney Stokes Medal for outstanding achievement in advancing the ideals and spirit of Thomas Jefferson. As recipient of the Lifeboat Foundation's 2007 Guardian Award, given to one person annually, he joined other honourees such as Prince Charles, Sir Martin Rees and Stephen Hawking.
James Martin believed that "we can make any kind of world we want." He founded the Oxford Martin School and saw it become globally recognised for the excellence and impact of its research. It is a permanent legacy and fitting tribute to his visionary understanding of the unique challenges facing humanity in the coming decades.
He died in 2013.
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- Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Former President of Mexico
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- Member of the Management Committee
- Head of the Medical Sciences Division
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Postdoctoral Researcher
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Senior Fellow
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- Events and Venue Assistant
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- Chancellor, University of Oxford, and Chair of the Advisory Council
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- Member of the Management Committee
- Head of the Mathematical, Physical & Life Sciences Division
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- Member of the Programme Team
- James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance
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- Research and Programmes Manager
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks
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- Professor & Former Dean, Harvard Kennedy School
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- Head of Policy and Development
- Head of Policy, Development and External Relations
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Nutritional Epidemiology
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Postdoctoral Researcher
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Programme Manager
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Senior Researcher
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Public Engagement Coordinator, LEAP
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Senior Researcher on Environment and Health
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- IT Entrepreneur and Founder of the Ubuntu Project
Martin Rees (Lord Rees of Ludlow), former President of the Royal Society, and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Professor of Mathematical Biology
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Postdoctoral Researcher
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Professor of Population Health
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- Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
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- Professor of International Relations at Oxford University
Andrew Hurrell was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University until May 2021. He is now a Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College, an Einstein Visiting Fellow in Berlin, and a Senior Fellow at the Law Faculty in Humboldt University.
He was elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2011 and to the British Academy in 2011. In 2015 he received the Susan Strange Prize from the International Studies Association, which is awarded for ‘challenging the conventional wisdom and organizational complacency of the international studies community'.
His academic career has been driven by two core intellectual concerns: one focused on the nature and possibilities of order in international life; the second on the changing global character of international politics and the contestation that has resulted from hierarchy and inequality on the one hand and value and cultural diversity on the other.
Ms Anindita Biswas is an accomplished professional in the field of mental health and social science. She holds a Master's degree in Social Work with a specialization in Mental Health from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, and an M.Phil in Psychiatric Social Work from the renowned National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore.
Anindita is one of the pioneers in her country, who has made significant contributions in the area of ‘caste and mental health', through impactful online talks and training programs. Her approach encompasses clinical and trauma-focused perspectives, underpinned by a strong commitment to social justice.
Ms Biswas has extensive experience in qualitative research. Her primary interest lies in understanding the lived experiences of marginalized communities and individuals with intersectional identities, including male sex workers, LGBTQIA+ communities, and Dalit communities.
Currently, she holds the position of Psychiatric Social orker at the esteemed Institute of Neurosciences in Kolkata, where she continues to make profound contributions to the field of mental health.
Within the Global Epilepsy research programme, Anindita assumes a pivotal role in the methodology of participant recruitment and serves as the interviewer, skillfully collecting oral histories from individuals living with epilepsy in India.
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- Director - General of the World Trade Organization
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- Chairman Professor, China Agricultural University / Orit Gadiesh, Chairman, Bain & Co
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- Member of the Management Committee
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- Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Former Executive Director, UNAIDS
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Professor of Population Health
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- Director of INET 's Employment
Brian Nolan is Director of INET's Employment, Equity and Growth Programme and Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention. He was previously Principal of the College of Human Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at University College Dublin.
He is an economist by training, with a doctorate from the London School of Economics, and his main areas of research are income inequality, poverty, and the economics of social policy.
Recent research has focused on trends in income inequality and their societal impacts, the distributional effects of the economic crisis, social inclusion in the EU, top incomes, deprivation and multiple disadvantage, and tax/welfare reform. He has been centrally involved in a range of collaborative cross-country research networks and projects, most recently the Growing Inequalities' Impacts (GINI) multi-country research project on inequalities and their impacts funded by the EU's Framework Programme 7.
Recent books published by Oxford University Press include The Handbook of Economic Inequality (2008) which he co-edited with Wiemer Salverda and Tim Smeeding, Poverty and Deprivation in Europe (2011) co-authored with Christopher T. Whelan, The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income (2013), edited with Stephen Jenkins, Andrea Brandolini and John Micklewright, and two co-edited volumes from the GINI project in 2013.
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- Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme
Cameron Hepburn is the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He is also Director and Professor of Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
He has published widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across a range of disciplines, including engineering, biology, philosophy, economics, public policy and law, drawing on his degrees in law, engineering and doctorate in economics. He has served in an editorial capacity for Environmental Research Letters, the European Economic Review, and has served as the managing editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Cameron's research is often referred to in the printed press, and he has been interviewed on television and radio in many countries.
Cameron provides advice on energy and climate policy to government ministers (e.g. China, India, UK and Australia) and international institutions (e.g. OECD, UN organisations) around the world. Cameron began his professional life with McKinsey, and has since had an entrepreneurial career, co-founding three successful businesses - Aurora Energy Research, Climate Bridge and Vivid Economics - and investing in several other social enterprises, such as Purpose and Apolitical. He also serves as a trustee for Schola Cantorum of Oxford.
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- Head of Finance and Administration
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- Communications and Media Assistant
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
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- Chairman of the Management Committee
- Head of Social Sciences Division
- Professor of Environment and Public Policy
Sarah Whatmore, Head of Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, and Chair of the Management Committee for the Oxford Martin School
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- Chairman Professor, China Agricultural University / Orit Gadiesh, Chairman, Bain & Co
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Professor of Human Ecology
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- Professor
- Sullivan Clarendon Associate Professor in History
Amanda Power is an historian of religion, power and intellectual life in medieval Europe.
She has been involved in developing the field of global medieval history, and new approaches to historical study that speak to the concerns of the mounting climate and environmental crisis.
She is currently working on a monograph, Medieval Histories of the Anthropocene, which explores questions concerning the relations between religion, power and the construction of public rationality in the building of medieval states across Eurasia. She is interested in how these centralising processes consciously dislocated humans from local ecosystems and specific and sustainable practices, while creating powerful and enduring narratives about civilisation, barbarism, and the use of resources.
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- Director
- Professor of Diet and Population Health
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- Member of the Programme Team
- Director of Table
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- Member of the Management Committee
- Head of the Social Sciences Division
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- Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group
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- Italy 's Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition