SMITH SCHOOL OF - Key Persons
Adam's career has encompassed finance, law, industry and sport. After graduating from Cambridge, he worked in Japan, the UK and South Africa in finance and resources before training in law and practicing at the Bar of England and Wales in the field of public law. Adam returned to the resources sector in 1998 and worked in London and Australia in a range of senior operational and corporate positions at Rio Tinto. In 2006 he joined the Williams Formula One team which he led for five years as chief executive and chairman. Since leaving F1 in 2012, Adam has helped build a number of companies as a VC investor and founder. He chairs Oxford Semantic Technologies, and is a director of Osler Diagnostics (both spun out of the University) and Apolitical, a learning platform for public servants. Adam is now working to research and support decarbonisation in capital-intensive companies, focusing on how leadership in organisations that have committed to ambitious targets for decarbonisation can achieve their goals swiftly and efficiently. In this he will be working with the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment and the Laudato Si' Research Institute.
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- Graduate Student, School of Geography and the Environment
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- Events & Engagement Coordinator
- Events and Engagement
Pfeiffer, A., Millar, R., Hepburn, C. and Beinhocker, E. (2016) The ‘2°C capital stock' for electricity generation: Committed cumulative carbon emissions from the electricity generation sector and the transition to a green economy. Applied Energy, 179: 1395-1408.
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- REACH Communications and Knowledge Exchange Manager
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- Head of Iberia at Aurora Energy Research
Ana is Head of Iberia at Aurora Energy Research. Ana has over fifteen years of professional services experience with an extensive energy market modelling, forecasting, and advisory background for utilities, financial institutions, and infrastructure developers in the US, Latin America and Europe. Prior to joining Aurora, Ana worked at CRA where she focused on energy disputes, policy and regulatory work. Ana also worked at KPMG in London in the Power & Utilities Strategy team, as well as in the Commodity & Energy Risk Management team.
Ana started her career with a US-based energy consulting firm specialising in wholesale electricity price forecasting and uncertainty modelling.
Ana holds an Energy MBA from Warwick University and a BSc. Economics from George Mason University.
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- Executive Education Co - Ordinator
- Head of Capacity Building and Partnerships at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Head of Capacity Building and Partnerships, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and Deputy Director, Public and Third Sector Academy for Sustainable Finance
Andrew McCarthy is the Head of Capacity Building and Partnerships at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Andrew is also the Deputy Director of the Public and Third Sector Academy for Sustainable Finance (The "P3S Academy"). Andrew is responsible for managing and developing a strong pipeline of capacity building and training projects. He works on a wide range of courses, including open-enrolment, bespoke, online, and in-person, covering a wide range of levels of seniority (from boards and senior management to new graduates), types of client (from financial institutions to civil society), and different geographies.
Andrew McCarthy is the Head of Capacity Building and Partnerships at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Andrew is also the Deputy Director of the Public and Third Sector Academy for Sustainable Finance (The "P3S Academy"). The P3S Academy at the University of Oxford is a new global centre of learning and capacity building focused on how the public and third sectors, whether central or local government, regulators, supervisory authorities, multilateral institutions, campaigning NGOs, charities, and philanthropy, can grasp the opportunities associated with sustainable finance.
Andrew is responsible for managing and developing a strong pipeline of capacity building and training projects. He is particularly focused on operational management and strategic stakeholder management and on developing and implementing effective partnerships, centred on but not limited to capacity building and training. He works on a wide range of courses, including open-enrolment, bespoke, online, and in-person, covering a wide range of levels of seniority (from boards and senior management to new graduates), types of client (from financial institutions to civil society), and different geographies.
Andrew has managed programmes on a global scale with the delivery of training in an international spread of countries for multinational companies. In addition he has co-ordinated Executive Education projects in collaboration with ClientEarth, Imperial College London, Pearson, and the English Football Association. More recent capacity building courses that he has helped to deliver include the BBVA CIB Sustainability Leadership Programme, the Oxford Programme on the Environment and the Law for the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, and the Sustainability Virtual Lecture Series for Accenture.
Prior to his current role, he worked as the Executive Education Manager - Custom and Open Programmes, at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. In this role he was responsible for the successful design, project management and execution of educational courses as well as leading on a number of the schools development initiatives and client relationships. He has worked in leadership development and training since 2013 having previously been employed as a Programme Manager at Saïd Business School, also at the University of Oxford.
Andrew has a BA in Management Studies from the University of Nottingham, which is complimented by PRINCE2 certification and Associate Membership of the Association for Learning Technology.
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- Vice Chairman of Roche Holding
André Hoffmann is the Vice Chairman of Roche Holding, Switzerland and serves on the board of the fully owned subsidiary Genentech Inc. in California (USA).
Alongside his non-executive roles in the family business, Mr Hoffmann has a distinguished cursus in nature conservation and sustainability. He has served among others on the board of WWF International as Vice-President. He is the President of Fondation MAVA and of Fondation Tour du Valat in the Camargue, France.
Mr Hoffmann has joined the Board of SystemIQ to help positively disrupt critical economic systems; the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, as well as of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. He has also been instrumental in establishing the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society (HGIBS) at INSEAD, his Alma mater, and chairs its Advisory Board.
Mr Hoffmann studied economics at St. Gallen University and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Board Member of the Human Fertilisation
Anita Bharucha is the Chief Operating Officer of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, where she provides leadership on strategy development.
Anita is a board member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
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- Events and Engagement Co - Ordinator
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- Chartered Management Accountant
- Group Manager, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Management Consultant in Diverse Settings: Most Recently With TERI University
Arti leads on administration for the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Arti is a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA), she completed her post-graduation in International Business after her Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Hindu College, Delhi University.
Arti leads on administration for the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Arti is a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Hindu College, Delhi University and did her post-graduation in International Business.
Arti has worked as a management consultant in diverse settings: most recently with TERI University (TERI SAS), Vedica Scholars Programme for Women, KPMG and TSCPL, and on assignments with consulting firms such as Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Sustainability. At the United Nations Integrated Office in DR Congo, Arti led initiatives on financial risk management and operations coordination. As Senior Manager at Natwest Bank London she delivered credit risk management strategies for high risk retail business lending. Prior to that, she was successful entrepreneur trading in optical products before embarking on international adventures with her family.
Arti is passionate about women's empowerment especially in the context of developing countries. She has served as member of Governing body for FICCI FLO in the capacity of National Head of Skilling and as a director of Sakha Consulting Wings Pvt Ltd, India's leading social enterprise in the field of women in transport.
She enjoys cricket, cooking and is compiling a book on Indian humour.
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- Graduate Student, School of Geography and the Environment
- Research Assistant in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Research Assistant, Transition Finance Research, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Christian is part of the Transition Finance Research cluster in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, researching energy transition risks as part of the Energy Transition Risk and Cost of Capital Project. His research focuses on how sustainable finance can alter the flow and cost of capital to carbon-intensive sectors and generate sensitive intervention points in the post-carbon transition.
Christian is a DPhil student at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE) and a Research Assistant in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, researching energy transition risks within capital markets. His research focuses on how sustainable finance can alter the flow and cost of capital to carbon-intensive sectors and generate sensitive intervention points in the post-carbon transition.
Alongside his work at Oxford, Christian is a Policy Advisor at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), focusing on Green Finance within the Clean Growth Directorate. Previously, he worked in sustainable finance at ShareAction and the University of Cambridge. He began his career in asset management at Janus Henderson Investors, working in emerging market debt.
Christian holds a BA in Economics and an MSc in Finance from the University of Exeter. He has also completed the CFA examinations and an MSc in Data Science at Birkbeck, University of London.
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- Lead, Data, Innovation and Impact, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Lead, Innovation and Impact, UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment and Deputy Head, Spatial Finance Initiative
Christophe is the Data, Innovation and Impact Lead within the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, developing innovation strategy and partnerships for the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment as well as the Spatial Finance Initiative which he co-founded.
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- Co - Director of Quadrature Climate Foundation
Cressida Pollock is the Co-Director of Quadrature Climate Foundation, a new UK-based foundation which aims to grant $100M-150M per year to combat the climate emergency.
A deep generalist who focuses on transforming organisations and systems, she has advised national and multinational companies, governments, and NGOs on strategic challenges and transformational change. She is the former Chief Executive of English National Opera where she led the rescue and turnaround of the company from 2015-2018 and was a founding member of Somerset Capital Management, an emerging markets focused investment fund.
Cressida currently advises on the deployment of philanthropic and commercial capital to shift the current trajectory on climate change and build towards long-term sustainable economic systems. She holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Professor of Economic Geography, School of Geography and the Environment
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- Research Assistant, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
David is a Research Assistant at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. His research looks at asset-level data and the development of the Risk, Impact, and Opportunity Tool.
David is a Research Assistant at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. His research looks at asset-level data and the development of the Risk, Impact, and Opportunity Tool as well as the Green BRI Data and Analysis Platform. David is also a PhD researcher at the London School of Economics investigating futures of Artificial Intelligence.
Before joining the Sustainable Finance Group, David gained over 2 years of professional experience in private sector and civil society organizations. He holds a MSc (with distinction) in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics, a MSc (with First Class Honors) in Sustainable Development from HEC Paris, and a BSc (with distinction) in Economics and Management from Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
David Scrymgeour has worked as an entrepreneur, consultant, trouble-shooter and community advisor.
Companies he has founded include File Tech Inc., an information management business; The Skills Network which hit Profit Magazine's 'fastest growing companies' list 3 years running; and Green Standards Ltd., another 3-time Profit List firm that provides circular economy solutions for corporate waste that benefit both community and environment.
He has also engaged as a Board Member with community organizations including One Laptop per Child, Canadian Executive Services Organisation, MaRS Discovery District, The Belinda Stronach Foundation, Make Poverty History Campaign, Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto Lung Association and Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust.
From 2014-21 he was appointed Adjunct Professor and Executive in Residence at University of Toronto School of Management. He also lectures and leads workshops for Venture for Canada, the MBA & MIB programs at Queens University School of Business and in 2019 was the inaugural Professional in Residence at St Cross College, Oxford.
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- Education Manager
- Executive
Denise is the Executive Education Manager for the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, responsible for the organisation and delivery of the school's online and in-person Executive Education programmes.
Prior to joining the Smith School Denise worked in international education in Oxford, designing and delivering international summer school programmes and online courses. Earlier on in her career Denise held various policy and project management roles in economic regulation including the Postal Services Commission and the Office for Communications. Denise lived and worked in Spain teaching English for a number of years, and continues to teach voluntarily with RefuNet, a refugee support programme, preparing students for Academic English exams online.
Denise has a BSc in Economics and Politics from the University of Bath, and several teaching qualifications including a PGCE in International Education from the University of Nottingham and the Cambridge English Diploma in English language teaching.
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- Research Fellow, Saïd Business School
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- Honorary Research Associate
- Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance
Aisha is a Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, and was previously the inaugural Bartlett Fellow at Yale Law School. Her current research focuses on ownership and its attendant rights and liabilities in the context of the modern corporation, and on the role of the corporation as a public actor. Aisha's work has been published in the Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Boston College Law Review, the New England Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law.
She holds a JD from Yale Law School and a DPhil and MPhil from Oxford University where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Aisha's doctoral dissertation focused on public challenges to the modern corporation and the development of contemporary corporate responsibility regimes. Aisha was an extern for Judge William Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Edward Chen on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She is a member of the New York and California Bars.
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Director, Innovative Infrastructure Investment Programme
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- Accounting, Saïd Business School
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- Research Associate in Sustainable Cooling
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- Head of Policy Engagement
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- Supervisor
- Departmental Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise
Aoife holds a joint appointment between the Smith School and the Saïd Business School. This appointment is a unique collaboration between the two schools, offering current and future opportunities for joint research, teaching and executive education. Aoife's research focuses on what systemic environmental challenges such as the climate crisis, and associated system transitions, mean for business. She focuses on understanding the new business models and forms of collaboration between different organizations (public, private and non-profit) that are required to support sustainable system transformations. Her work spans a range of contexts including research on utilities in the energy transition, sustainable districts, circular economy, and energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. She co-directs the Global Opportunities and Threats Oxford (GOTO) programme for the MBAs in Oxford, and she is developing several executive education initiatives on climate action as integrated components of her research. Aoife was previously a senior researcher at the Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec) at ETH in Zurich. She received her PhD from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and her MA from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
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- Honorary Research Associate
- Director at Pollination
- Expert
Dr Arjuna (Arj) Dibley is an expert on various aspects of climate change law, policy and finance.
Arj's research focuses particularly on how the governance of public institutions impacts environmental outcomes. His doctorate in law and economics from Stanford University, which he completed as a John Monash Scholar, focused on state-owned enterprises and clean energy innovation. His other work focuses on sovereign climate risk management, public climate finance and climate reforms, particularly in middle-income countries. His research has been published in leading peer reviewed outlets, including Nature, and covered by the press, including the New York Times and Foreign Policy.
In addition to his research, Arj is a Director at Pollination, where he advises developed and developing country governments, international financial institutions and global corporations on the development and implementation of climate policy and legal frameworks, climate risk management, climate finance instruments and energy decarbonization strategies. He is also a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Development, and a Board Member of Environmental Justice Australia. Arj began his career as an climate change lawyer working in Australia and Southeast Asia, during which time he won an award as the best lawyer under 30 years old.
Arjuna (Arj) is a Director at Pollination, a global climate change advisory and investment firm, where he advises governments, international financial institutions and corporations on climate change law, policy and finance.
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- Executive Chairman of Foresight Works
- Programme Director of the MSc in Major Programme Management ( MMPM ), Saïd Business School
- Programme Director, Oxford Programme on the Sustainable Future of Capital Intensive Industries
- Senior Teaching Fellow
A Fellow of Keble College, Atif is Senior Teaching Fellow on the MSc in Major Programme Management and the Australian Major Projects Leadership Academy (AMPLA). He is the Founding Director of the Oxford Programme on the Sustainable Future of Capital-Intensive Industries, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
Atif is also the Executive Chairman of Foresight Works - an Oxford based technology firm building next-gen software for the world's megaprojects. Atif has been at the University of Oxford since 2006. From 2006 to 2010, he undertook his DPhil (PhD), at Brasenose College, with the prestigious Clarendon Scholarship from Oxford University Press. Atif was a post-doctoral research fellow at the BT Centre for Major Programme Management at Saïd Business School from 2010. From 2015 until 2020, Atif was Programme Director of the MSc in Major Programme Management and continues to be one of the senior teaching fellows on the course's faculty. Atif also teaches on the UK and Australian Governments Major Projects Leadership Academy. In 2018, Atif began an appointment as a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Global Projects Center and a Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University.
Atif previously undertook his bachelor's degree at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he majored in philosophy, politics, and economics.
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- Member of the Affiliated
- Supervisor
- Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow
- Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University
- Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford
- Sustainable Finance
Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance; Director, UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment
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. 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.
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 and Senior Research Fellow 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.
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. Ben has authored and edited a substantial number of publications related to sustainability and is an experienced media commentator and public speaker. He is also a regular peer reviewer and has a number of trustee, board, and advisory panel appointments, including with the Green Alliance, The Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Project, the UK Department for International Trade's Export Guarantees Advisory Council, and Climate Impact X's International Advisory Council. He also an advisor to the Secretariat of the One Planet Sovereign Wealth Fund Initiative and a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange.
He has conceived and initiated a number of initiatives related to sustainable finance. Ben founded and is 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 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 at the University of Oxford, a global centre of learning on sustainable finance for the public and third sectors. Ben is a Co-Investigator for the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery where he co-leads its work on finance.
Ben chairs the Finance Sector Expert Group for Race to Zero and Race to Resilience and serves on the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero's Steering Group and on the UK Government's Green Technical Advisory Group. He co-leads 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 and in his capacity as a Member of the UK Green Finance Taskforce, chaired its Workstream on Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD) Implementation.
Ben teaches and supervises a wide range of students at the University of Oxford and beyond. In addition to supervising PhD/DPhil students, he established and leads BA, MSc, and MPhil 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, an introduction to sustainable finance for current and future leaders, and the Climate-related Financial Risk Course, to equip participants with the very latest knowledge, as well as the expertise, networks, and confidence to design and implement practices for measuring and managing climate-related risks. Ben also co-hosts a regular roundtable breakfast meeting in the City of London on sustainable finance with the Centre for the Study of Finance Innovation (CSFI). The 'Sustainable Finance for Breakfast' series brings together a wide range of practitioners to discuss and debate the latest developments in sustainable finance. 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 serves on CSFI's Governing Council and has also served as an Academic Associate at the Chartered Banker Institute and on the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' ESG Investment Working Party.
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.
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 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 Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Payne Institute for Earth Resources at the Colorado School of Mines.
Caldecott, B.L. (2017) Introduction to special issue: stranded assets and the environment. Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, 7(1): 1-13.
Kruitwagen, L., Madani, K., Caldecott, B. and Workman, M.H.W. (2017) Game theory and corporate governance: conditions for effective stewardship of companies exposed to climate change risks. Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, 7(1): 14-36.
Ansar, A. and Caldecott, B.L. (2016) Divestment campaigns: bottom-up geo-economics. In, Leonard, M. (ed.) Connectivity wars: why migration, finance and trade are the geo-economic battlegrounds of the future. European Council on Foreign Relations, Brussels, Belgium.
Caldecott, B.L. (2010) We fight to win: security and action on climate change. In, Rowley, S. and Phillips, R. (eds.) From Hot Air to Happy Endings: How to inspire public support for a low carbon society. Green Alliance, London, UK. ISBN: 978-1-905869-31-2.
Thomä, J., Caldecott, B.L. and Ralite, S. (2019) Sustainability Improvement Loans: a risk-based approach to changing capital requirements in favour of sustainability outcomes. 2degrees Investing Initiative (Paris, France) and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK)
Caldecott, B.L., Dericks, G., Pfeiffer, A. and Astudillo, P. (2017) Emerging Risk Report 2017: stranded assets - the transition to a low carbon economy. Innovation Series: Society and Security. Lloyd's of London, London, UK.
Caldecott, B.L., Saygin, D., Rigter, J., and Gielen, D. (2017) Stranded assets and renewables: how the energy transition affects the value of energy reserves, buildings, and capital stock. International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Ansar, A., Caldecott, B.L. and Tilbury, J. (2013) Stranded assets and the fossil fuel divestment campaign: what does divestment mean for the valuation of fossil fuel assets? Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Caldecott, B.L. and Dickie, I. (2011) Habitat banking: scaling up private investment in the protection and restoration of our natural world. Climate Change Capital and eftec, London, UK.
McIlveen, R. and Caldecott, B.L. (eds.) (2009) A wasted opportunity: getting the most out of Britain's bins. Policy Exchange, London, UK. ISBN: 978-1-906097-52-3.
Caldecott, B.L. & McDaniels, J. (2014) Financial dynamics of the environment: risks, impacts, and barriers to resilience. Working Paper for the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. Working Paper. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK).
Caldecott, B.L. & McDaniels, J. (2014) Stranded generation assets: implications for European capacity mechanisms, energy markets and climate policy. Working Paper. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK).
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- Supervisor
- Departmental Research Lecturer, Enterprise and the Environment and Programme Director, Executive Education
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.
Caitlin is a tutor in human geography at St Peter's college and lectures on Economic Geography as part of the undergraduate courses Human Geography (1st years), and Space, Place, Society (2nd years). She co-leads an MSc elective on the Circular Economy with Dr Micol Chiesa.
McElroy, C. (2014) Technological dynamics and the resource curse: Between macro-economic policy and local corporate social responsibility (CSR). The Extractive Industries and Society, 2(1): 56-63.
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- Postdoctoral Researcher in Water Security and Society ( Social Scientist )
- Social Scientist
Catherine Fallon Grasham is a social scientist who specialises in water security in Ethiopia. She has been working in Ethiopia since 2009 and has a keen understanding of the country's water sector and recent demographic change. She currently leads the social science research in the Awash River basin, Ethiopia, for REACH: Improving water security for the poor, an interdisciplinary research programme. With mixed research methods, her work addresses the interconnectedness of water, politics and human development with a particular focus on highlighting the voices of the poor. She holds a PhD in Water Security and International Development from the University of East Anglia (2018) and was a PhD fellow with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Addis Ababa from 2014-15. Catherine's wider research interests include, but are not limited to, gender, WASH and rural development.
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- Group Head of Sustainable Investment Research, Strategy and Stewardship, Lombard Odier
- Head of Sustainable Investment Research
Dr Jesse M. Keenan
Honorary Research Associate, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and Associate Professor of Real Estate, School of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
Dr Christopher Kaminker is Head of Sustainable Investment Research, Strategy and Stewardship at Lombard Odier. He leads a team responsible for cross-asset sustainable investment research, strategy, economic analysis, data science and product development. He also oversees the firm's active ownership and stewardship efforts. Prior to Lombard Odier, he worked at SEB, a Nordic financial banking group, where he was head of sustainable finance research and a senior advisor in the merchant banking division. During his time in investment banking at SEB, Goldman Sachs and Société Générale, he advised on and structured over USD 20 billion of sustainability financing capital markets solutions for investors, corporates and sovereigns. Dr Kaminker also spent 7 years as the lead economist and policy advisor for sustainable finance at the OECD. During his tenure, he represented the OECD as delegate to the G20 and Financial Stability Board. He is an author of over 30 peer-reviewed publications on sustainable finance, and received his doctorate from Oxford University and masters from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His current appointments include the Swiss Bankers Association's Expert Commission Sustainable Finance, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Visiting Business Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University.
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- Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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- Supervisor
- Honorary Research Associate
Dr Dustin E. Garrick is an Honorary Research Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is an associate professor of global water policy at the University of Waterloo based in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and the Water Institute. He is also a research fellow at Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford, where he has been teaching since 2011.
Dr Garrick has expertise in water and environmental governance with a focus on property rights, institutions and markets. He has twenty years of experience in environmental management with a focus on markets and governance innovations to address resource scarcity and sustainability challenges. In this work, he is interested in the evolution of conflict and cooperation over water and other shared natural resources in the context of climate change, biodiversity loss and rapid urbanisation. His approach is multi-disciplinary, spanning public policy, geography and institutional economics, and anchored in field-based and comparative research across a network of observatories which track long-term changes in natural resource conflicts and institutional responses. This work seeks to advance collective action theory and contribute to our understanding of common pool resource governance. His current research examines the impact of urbanisation on water conflict and cooperation with an emphasis on competition between cities and agriculture for water. He is also examining the evolution and impact of market-based approaches to govern the commons, with a particular interest in the role of informal water markets and their political economy.
He has extensive expertise at the interface of science, policy and enterprise, serving as an invited speaker at leading universities and expert advisor for the World Bank, OECD, corporations, governments and non-profits. In 2018, the American Association for the Advancement of Science selected Dr. Garrick as a Leshner Fellow of Public Engagement. He also co-founded a global initiative on water markets with the World Bank Water Practice and has served on many international committees, including the Global Water Partnership/OECD task force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth, the Valuing Water Initiative for the UN/World Bank High Level Panel on Water and the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership. He has been a Fulbright Scholar (2010-11) in Australia and was the 2018 recipient of the Sustainable Water Management Prize from the Botin Foundation in Spain.
Garrick, D., De Stefano, L., Fung, F., Pittock, J., Schlager, E., New, M. and Connell, D. (2013) Research article: Managing hydroclimatic risks in federal rivers: a diagnostic assessment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 371(20120415). This is one article from the Theme Issue ‘Water security, risk and society'..
Garrick, D. and Aylward, B. (2012) Transaction costs and institutional performance in market-based environmental water allocation. Land Economics, 88(3): 536-560.
Garrick, D., Siebentritt, M., Aylward, B., Bauer, C.J. and Purkey, A. (2009) Water markets and freshwater ecosystem services: policy reform and implementation in the Columbia and Murray Darling basins. Ecological Economics, 69(2): 366-379.
Garrick, D. and Hope, R.A. (2013) Water security risk and response: the logic and limits of economic instruments. In, Lankford, B., Bakker, K., Zeitoun, M. and Conway, D. (eds.) Water Security - Principles, Perspectives and Practices. Routledge, London. 376 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-53471-0.
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- Postdoctoral Researcher in African Climate Science
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- Research Associate in Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub
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- Research Associate
- Lead, Pulp and Paper, Spatial Finance Initiative and Research Associate, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Research Associate in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Felicia Liu leads work on pulp and paper as part of the Spatial Finance Initiative and works on the Future of Engagement Project. She is a Research Associate in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Her research looks at sustainable finance engagement strategies, and biodiversity and nature finance.
Felicia Liu is a research associate in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Her research looks at sustainable finance engagement strategies, and biodiversity and nature finance.
She has recently submitted her doctoral thesis to the Departments of Geography at King's College London and the National University of Singapore. Her doctoral thesis studies the development of climate finance in three Asian financial centres: Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Prior to commencing her PhD, she has conducted research in regulating sustainability reporting in Hong Kong and Singapore. In addition to her graduate studies, she is also involved in research projects on nature-based climate solutions and transboundary haze in Southeast Asia.
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Research Associate in Sustainable Cooling Production Networks
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- Honorary Research Associate
Giulio Boccaletti, PhD, is an Honorary Research Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, where he pursues research on a broad set of issues, from the economics of sustainability to the role of history in decision making.
Over the past two decades his career has spanned academia, the private and not for profit sectors. He started out as a physicist and climate scientist. He earned his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, working at its Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He subsequently was a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His peer-reviewed work covered a variety of issues from turbulence theory, to mesoscale oceanography, to large-scale climate phenomena.
He left academia to join McKinsey & Company, where he eventually became a partner. He was one of the leaders of the firm's Sustainability and Resource Productivity Practice, and a co-founder of its Water Practice. He served clients across the private sector on strategy, and served international institutions on natural resource security and infrastructure strategy. While at McKinsey he also worked on a number of landmark public reports, including "Everyone's Business", a climate mitigation strategy for the UK released by the CBI's Task Force on Climate Change, "Smart 2020" a report by The Climate Group and a number of ICT companies on the role of the sector in the low carbon transition, and "Charting Our Water Future", a report on the global water crisis by the 2030 Water Resources Group, a coalition of companies, the World Bank Group, and the World Economic Forum.
In 2013, he left McKinsey to join The Nature Conservancy, the largest environmental conservation organization in the world, overseeing its water programs across 35 countries. He was responsible for growing the organization's work on ecosystem services, on hydropower siting, and on water markets. He then became TNC's Chief Strategy Officer. In that capacity he led the performance transformation of the institution, creating business and strategy processes to manage close to 4,000 people and a billion dollars a year for measurable outcomes, and establishing the use of machine learning and remote sensing to monitor and evaluate the outcomes delivered by the organization.
He left TNC in 2020 to dedicate his time to a number of media projects and advisory work. His first book Water: A Biography - published by Pantheon Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House - will be released in September 2021. He is now working on his second book. He also collaborates with a number of documentary makers: the series "H2O: The Molecule that Made Us" features his work on water and was broadcast by PBS in the US in April 2020; "The Age of Nature," a PBS/BBC Worldwide co-production on which he was series consultant, was released in the US in October 2020.
His work on sustainability has been widely recognized. In 2014, he was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He has been a member of the Global Agenda Council on Water and of the Global Futures Council on Natural Resource Security at WEF, and of the OECD/World Water Forum High Level Panel on Infrastructure Financing for a Water-Secure World. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change in Italy. In his free time, he is a musician and ocarina player with the Italian group G.O.B., with which he has recorded and toured for over 30 years. The group's 2019 Japan Tour was sold out within hours of going on sale.
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- Global Head of Market Analytics at Marex Spectron
Dr Wolf is the Global Head of Market Analytics at Marex Spectron, one of the world's largest brokers of financial products in the commodities sector. He oversees the firm's data initiatives which encompass algorithmic execution design, quantitative research and alternative data. Marex works with a number of partners, primarily in the field of geo-spatial analysis, to develop environmental monitoring and intelligence products for commodity market participants. A CFA charterholder, Dr Wolf holds a MSocSci and PhD in Economics from the University of Cape Town, focused on Game Theory, and read PPE at Exeter College, Oxford.
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Associate Professor and Social Scientist
- Associate Professor of Real Estate
- Honorary Research Associate
- Honorary Research Associate / Associate Professor of Real Estate, School of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana ( USA )
Jesse M. Keenan is an Associate Professor and social scientist within the faculty of the School of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA). As a globally recognized thought leader, Keenan's research focuses on the intersection of climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects of design, engineering, regulation, planning and financing. Keenan formerly served as the Director and Area Head for Real Estate and Built Environment on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as the Research Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate on the faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Keenan's research has partnered with a variety of global actors, including the AIA, Audi, Carnegie Corporation, City of New York, EPA, Goldman Sachs, Google, ICC, Knight Foundation, MoMA, Mori Foundation, Lennar Foundation, NASA, National Security Council, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Regional Plan Association, RAND Corporation, States of California and Massachusetts, the White House and the U.N. Keenan's books include Blue Dunes: Climate Change by Design (Columbia University Press), Climate Change Adaptation in North America: Experiences, Case Studies and Best Practices (Springer) and Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California (Routledge). Keenan holds degrees in the law (J.D., LL.M.) and science of the built environment (M.Sc.), including a Ph.D. from the Delft University of Technology.
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- Director of Academic Programs, Planet
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- Research Associate
- Honorary Research Associate
Dr Johanna Koehler is Research Associate and Water Programme Manager at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. Her research examines the interplay of water risks and institutional change in terms of political and institutional transformations in the water sector as well as new professional rural water service delivery models emerging across sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, she investigates how risks and responsibilities can be re-conceptualised and re-allocated in pluralist arrangements between the state, market, and communities.
Her work as part of the Smith School Water Programme has also contributed to developing a business model for maintaining drinking water infrastructure in marginalised areas of Kenya (FundiFix), which serves over 70,000 people with reliable water services. She holds a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford (Clarendon Scholar), and previously worked at the United Nations Office in Geneva. In 2017, her research appeared in The Economist, and in 2018 she was joint winner as part of the Smart Water Systems group of the inaugural University of Oxford's Vice Chancellor's Innovation Award. In 2019 she was appointed water and sustainable development expert on the World Economic Forum Expert Network.
Koehler, J. (2018) Exploring policy perceptions and responsibility of devolved decision-making for water service delivery in Kenya's 47 county governments. Geoforum, 92: 68-80.
Koehler, J., Thomson, P. and Hope, R. (2015) Pump-priming payments for sustainable water services in rural Africa. World Development, 74: 397-411.
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- Lead, Agriculture, Spatial Finance Initiative and Senior Research Associate, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Senior Research Associate, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Juan Sabuco leads work on agriculture as part of the Spatial Finance Initiative. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group.
Juan obtained a BSc and MSc from Universidad Miguel Hernández and a Masters in Physics and Modelling of Complex Systems from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He completed his PhD at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory developing a new control method for chaotic systems, called Partial Control. He was also Assistant Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos where he worked on modelling and control of microeconomic systems.
He was recently involved in the Systemic Risk of Modelling project at the Institute for New Economic Thinking in Oxford. In this project, he demonstrated the huge gains in resilience and risk spreading arising when there is a diversity of risk models in the market. He has also been involved in the HESTIA project, which allows researchers around the world to share their environmental impact assessments, supporting the new science required to deliver sustainable food.
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- Reseach Assistant, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Research Assistant at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Research Assistant, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Kevin is a Research Assistant at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group working on spatial finance. His research looks at the impacts of Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure projects and investments on climate change, the environment, and sustainable economic development in recipient countries across Asia.
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- Departmental Lecturer and Course Director, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Research Associate in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Research Associate, Machine Learning and Data Science, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Lucas Kruitwagen is part of the Machine Learning and Data Science cluster in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. His research examines how technology is changing the availability of company environmental risk information.
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- Postdoctoral Researcher in Ethnography
Grasham, C.F., Korzenevica, M. and Charles, K.J. (2019) On considering climate resilience in urban water security: a review of the vulnerability of the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Senior Research Associate in Complex Systems Economic Modelling
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- Lead, Heavy Industry, Spatial Finance Initiative and Research Associate, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Lead, Spatial Finance, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Matthew McCarten leads work on heavy industry as part of the Spatial Finance Initiative. His main areas of research include corporate finance, financial regulation and ESG related issues.
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- Lead, Data Science and AI, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Research Associate, Machine Learning and Data Science, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Nataliya Tkachenko is part of the Machine Learning and Data Science cluster in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Her interests like in prediction and mitigation of climate risks, models of sustainable production and consumption and socio-environmental adaptation.
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- Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance
- Deputy Director, UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and Head of Sustainable Finance Research for Development, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Nicola Ranger is Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and Head of Sustainable Finance Research for Development at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Her research focuses on the financial and fiscal implications of climate and environmental change and the role of sustainable finance in strengthening resilience. She has a particular interest in emerging and developing economies and works at the intersection of science, risk analytics, finance, economics and policy.
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Senior Research Associate
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- Departmental Research Lecturer in the Economics of Environmental Change
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- Honorary Research Associate
Dr Radhika Khosla presented her work co-leading the new Oxford Future of Cooling programme. Radhika set out the challenges that exist across the cooling system and the research to address these hurdles. Dr Alex Money set out his latest work analysing the options for Africa's future energy direction entitled Africa's Energy Transition: Leapfrog or Lock-in.
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- Senior Research Fellow & Director of Research, Electricity Programme, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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- Research Associate, Economic Analysis of Technological Change
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- Head of International Financial Architecture, Financial Stability Division, De Nederlandsche Bank
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- Senior Research Associate in Water Security and Society
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- Departmental Research Lecturer in Environmental and Resource Management
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- Executive Director, Oxford Net Zero and CO 2 RE
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- Head of Machine Learning Research and Data Science, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Steve is head of the Machine Learning Research and Data Science cluster in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. His team exploits and further develops state-of-the-art machine learning for mapping and characterising assets world-wide that exhibit both environmental and financial risk. Current work is focussed on creating asset level datasets of the world's most polluting industries using remote sensing and unstructured text reports.
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- Honorary Research Associate
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- Director, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme Associate Professor of Law and Finance, Faculty of Law
Thom is an Associate Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford, and Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme (SLP). At Oxford, he is also affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, the Oxford Martin School, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.
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- Lead, Performance, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Lead, Sustainable Finance Performance, Transition Finance Research and Research Associate, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Dr Xiaoyan Zhou is part of the Transition Finance Research cluster in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and leads work on sustainable finance performance, including the Energy Transition Risk and Cost of Capital Project.
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- Honorary Research Associate
- Fellow, Instructor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Aisha is on the SLP management team and directs the Executive Education program. She also takes part in the SLP's research on the legal attribution of climate change.
Elisabeth is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main and a Visiting Student at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. Her research focuses on the integration of sustainability risks and the legal framework for risk management of financial institutions.
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- REACH Communications and Knowledge Exchange Manager ( Maternity Cover )
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- Director, Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative
Ellie is Executive Director of the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), where she leads a radical collaboration between partner organisations across the globe, including Oxford University, environmental law charity ClientEarth and commercial law firm MinterEllison.
Evi Steyer is an investor focused on building a regenerative and just agricultural system. She is currently with Astanor Ventures and was previously with Generation Investment Management. She is a climate activist.
Frances served as Natural Resource Defense Council's president from 2006 to 2015. Prior to her role as NRDC president, Frances was the organisation's executive director for eight years. In 2010, she was appointed by President Obama to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. She was a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy's advisory board from 2012 to 2016. She currently serves on the advisory board of the MIT Energy Initiative, as well as the boards of the NRDC Action Fund, ClientEarth, the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, and the World Resources Institute.
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- Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London
Friederike (Fredi) is a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, one of Imperial's six hubs for research, innovation and influence on global challenges. Her main research interest is on extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves and storms, and understanding whether and to what extent these are made more likely or intense due to climate change.
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- Graduate Student, School of Geography and the Environment
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- REACH Programme Administrator
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- Communications Manager, Oxford Net Zero and CO 2 RE Hub
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- Vice President, Investment Management Division, Goldman Sachs ( Based in San Francisco )
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- Partner at McKinsey & Company
Hauke Engel is a Partner at McKinsey & Company. He serves clients across sectors on sustainability and strategy topics and co-leads McKinsey's work on climate change globally. In addition to his client work, Hauke regularly leads major research efforts. He is a lead author of McKinsey's recent flagship report on socio-economic impacts of physical climate risk and has been responsible for studies on country decarbonization pathways, building an integrated energy demand model and forecasting CO 2 emission pathways. Hauke holds a PhD in astrophysics from LMU Munich and a Master's in physics from Oxford.
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- CEO of Lombard Odier Investment Managers
- Senior Managing Partner, Lombard Odier
Hubert Keller is CEO of Lombard Odier Investment Managers and has been a Managing Partner of the Lombard Odier Group since 2006. He leads the firm's work on sustainable investment, including aligning investment strategies to a new economic model known as 'CLIC'TM - Circular, Lean, Inclusive and Clean. He is also leading efforts to develop a broad range of investment solutions dedicated to the CLIC economic transition. Under his leadership, Lombard Odier has built its own ESG framework to integrate best business practices across all its strategies.
Hubert started his career at Compagnie Financière Tradition and SG Warburg Group. He subsequently moved to Deutsche Bank, working in corporate finance and capital markets before assuming global responsibility for Equity Capital Markets and becoming a member of the Executive Committee of its Global Banking division.
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- Administrative Support Officer
- Administrative Support Officer, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme
Iain supports the project management and day-to-day organisation of the programme and provides administrative assistance to the programme director. He has a background in admin and team support for development organisations and non-profits. Past roles include Fundraising Coordinator for Climate Outreach. Prior to that he worked at Oxfam International and Oxfam GB, including as administrator for OI's global GROW Campaign to build a better food system for all.
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- CEO of Marex Spectron Group
Ian Lowitt is the CEO of Marex Spectron Group, a leading independent global commodity specialist providing clients with access to financial and physical markets across Metals, Energy and Agricultural products. He has over 30 years' experience in financial services including 14 years at Lehman Brothers and 3 years at Barclays. Ian's tenure at Lehman Brothers included a variety of senior global roles including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administration Officer, Global Treasurer, Global Head of Tax and Head of Strategy. Prior to joining Lehman he was an Engagement Manager at Management Consultant McKinsey and Company.
As a leader in Commodities, Ian believes that Marex Spectron has an important role to play in promoting and supporting environmental initiatives and sustainability. To address this, Ian is championing investment in the renewables business at Marex Spectron as well as driving a series of ESG projects throughout the company's global network. A Rhodes Scholar, Ian has an MSc in Economics, and a MA in Economics, Philosophy and Politics from the University of Oxford, and a BSc and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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- Graduate Student, School of Geography and the Environment
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- Research Assistant, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
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- Member of the Affiliated
- Mathematics
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- Senior Research Associate in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
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- Global Head of Sustainability, BNP Paribas Asset Management
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- PA to Director
- PA to the Director of the SSEE
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- Head of Impact at Rede Partners
Jeremy is Head of Impact at Rede Partners, bringing Rede over 20 years' experience of investment and capital raising focused on sustainability and impact. He is a co-founder of Berkeley Energy a leading private equity firm focused upon renewable energy in emerging markets. He started his career at Credit Suisse in M&A. Jeremy is a co-founder of CDP, the world's leading disclosure system focused on environmental reporting, supported by investors representing $98 trillion of AUM.
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- Graduate Student, School of Geography and the Environment
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- Early Stage Researcher
- Research Project on Rural Water Finance in Africa, With Fieldwork in Rural Mali and in Cooperation With UDUMA
Johannes Wagner's research examines the payment behaviours of rural consumers and facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa to attract non-traditional funding. His field-based study focuses on policy and governance issues informing how rural consumers pay for water across service delivery models, payment methods, and political spaces using both qualitative and quantitative methods. He is adopting an interdisciplinary approach to analyse the interplay of professional rural water services, consumer behaviour and sustainable financing. His work will contribute to global knowledge on performance-based models for reliable rural water services. Johannes' research is part of the NEWAVE project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, led by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Prior to joining his PhD program, Johannes worked for four years as a policy advisor on behalf of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) for the sustainable development of the water and sanitation sector in Mali. His work focused mainly on sector steering, pro-poor regulation and performance monitoring mechanisms as well as drinking water quality by ensuring capacity development of public, private sector and civil society actors. He holds a binational MA and BA in Empirical Political and Social Sciences from the University of Stuttgart and Sciences Po Bordeaux (with distinction).
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- Member of the Affiliated
- Law and Finance
John is a Senior Advisor to Allen & Company New York City. Previously, he was the Chief Executive of Citi's Investment Bank in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and he also served as Chairman of CVC's Investment Committee in Europe, Chairman of Euromoney, Chairman of UBN and Chairman of Glyndebourne. He is a Trustee of the Tate Foundation and Glyndebourne and Independent Board Member of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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- Member of the Climate Transition Finance Working Group of the International Capital Market Association
- Research Assistant, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
- Research Assistant, Transition Finance Research, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
José Luis is part of the Transition Finance Research cluster in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, researching transition finance and sustainability-linked debt. His research focuses on how sustainability performance targets can support credible decarbonisation strategies of carbon-intensive industries.
José Luis is a DPhil student at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE) and a Research Assistant in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, researching transition finance and sustainability-linked debt. His research focuses on how sustainability performance targets can support credible decarbonisation strategies of carbon-intensive industries.
Alongside his work at Oxford, José Luis is a member of the Climate Transition Finance working group of the International Capital Market Association. He is also the founder of ESG Latam, a think tank focusing on sustainable finance innovations in Latin American markets. Previously, José Luis gained over six years of professional experience as a risk management advisor at Berkeley Research Group and the Government of Mexico City.
José Luis holds an MA (with distinction) in Economics and Policy from University College London and a BA in Political Science and Government from El Colegio de México.
Juliet is the Founder and a Non-Executive Director of Good Energy Group plc - a renewable energy company with a mission to power a greener, cleaner future together with its customers.
Juliet was Good Energy's CEO for 19 years, working on ideas to fight climate change and transform the energy sector for the better. In 2013, she was awarded an OBE for services to renewables. She currently sits on the board of the Renewable Energy Association and Innovate UK and is Vice President of the Energy Institute. In July 2020 she was appointed as a new board member of The Crown Estate. In addition, she sits on the advisory boards of leading UK think tanks, including Energy Systems Catapult, Aurora, Oxford Energy, and LSE's Grantham Institute.
Juliet has various scholastic credentials with academic organisations, including University of Wales, Imperial College, Bristol University, Birkbeck and LSE, where she has various roles and accolades, with the ambition of influencing the next generation to think about the energy transition and our low carbon future.
Juliet is passionate about creating a business that does good; one that can deliver the needs of society in a purposeful way. As part of this vision, she is working with the British Academy's Future of the Corporation project, thinking about a better future.
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- Research Assistant - Net Zero
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- Senior Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute
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- Member of the Affiliated
- Law and Finance
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- Programmes Manager, SSEE ( Maternity Cover )
Leo's key topic is Future Proofing, pinpointing the megatrends shaping both risk and opportunity for global business. A Judge for the FT Boldness in Business Awards, Leo is the co-author of "Turnaround Challenge: Business and the City of the Future" (Oxford University Press, 2013), described by Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at LBS, as "indispensable reading for the next generation of business leaders".
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- Digital Communications and Marketing Officer
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- Head of Strategic Communications, SSEE
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- Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director, Saïd Business School
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- Senior Advisor, Prudential Regulation Authority, Bank of England and Co - Chair G20 Green Finance Study Group
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- Hub Manager - Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub
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- Graduate Student, School of Geography and the Environment
Nanak is a lawyer, consultant and Australian Rhodes scholar undertaking an MSc in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford. He is a consultant at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. Nanak has worked at the intersection of law and policy in areas relating to climate change, the energy transition and sustainability. He completed his legal training at the Environmental Defenders Office in Sydney, focusing on climate change litigation, deforestation and land rights in Australia and the Pacific. Prior to coming to Oxford, Nanak worked as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, advising government departments on national energy policy and COVID-19 health responses. His previous academic research has focused on Australian forestry regulation.
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- Water Programme Coordinator
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- Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School
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- National Director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Politically David has served as National Director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, advisor to the Green Party of Ontario and election readiness trainer in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
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- Professor of Accounting, Saïd Business School
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- Member of the Affiliated
- Supervisor
- Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
- Professor of Environmental Economics at the University
Cameron Hepburn is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He also serves as the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.
Cameron has published widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across disciplines including engineering, biology, philosophy, economics, public policy and law, drawing on degrees in law and engineering (Melbourne University) and masters and doctorate in economics (Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar). He has co-founded three successful businesses and has provided advice on energy and environmental policy to government ministers (e.g. China, India, UK and Australia) and international institutions (e.g. OECD, UN).
Hepburn, C., Adlen, E., Beddington, J. et al. (2019) The technological and economic prospects for CO 2 utilization and removal. Nature, 575: 87-97.
Thomas, V., Albert, J.R.G. and Hepburn, C. (2014) Contributors to the frequency of intense climate disasters in Asia-Pacific countries. Climatic Change, 126(3-4): 381-398.
Dietz, S. and Hepburn, C. (2013) Benefit-cost analysis of non-marginal climate and energy projects. Energy Economics, 40: 61-71.
Chu, B., Duncan, S., Papachristodoulou, A. and Hepburn, C. (2012) Analysis and control design of sustainable policies for greenhouse gas emissions. Applied Thermal Engineering, 53(2): 420-431.
Duncan, S., Hepburn, C. and Papachristodoulou, A. (2011) Optimal harvesting of fish stocks under a time-varying discount rate. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 269(1): 166-173.
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- Supervisor
- Senior Consultant and Emeritus Professor, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
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- Executive Chair of Oxford Global Partnership
Ranjita is Executive Chair of Oxford Global Partnership, advising investors, businesses, and entrepreneurs on sustainable, inclusive and responsible value creation. Ranjita leads the Smith School's ESG engagement with companies and teaches the School of Geography and the Environment's MSc elective on "Essentials of ESG and DEI". She is also Founder of the Karta Initiative, a global social mobility movement, building technology, finance, and networks to bridge the divide between 'base of pyramid' youth and world leading universities and employers in Canada, India and UK.
Ranjita's raison d'être is identifying and shaping imaginative businesses as exemplars of value creation, responsible governance and equitable NZSD. In circa a decade at McKinsey & Co, she advised public and private businesses in retail, telecoms, energy, mining, banking, and technology on value creation. She was a founding member of the Climate Change Special Initiative, today McKinsey's Sustainability Practice. Ranjita started her career as a macroeconomist in the Global South, negotiating financing for structural adjustment and sustainable development projects. Her experience includes Europe, Latin America, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and North America. Ranjita is fluent in French and Spanish, holds MSc and BSc Econ degrees from the London School of Economics, and has co-authored papers on climate change mitigation, low carbon growth, social mobility and inequality in developing countries. Ranjita's prior/current non-exec roles include Global Action Plan, Huron University College and International Students House.
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- Aurora 's Research Director
Based in Oxford, Richard Howard is Aurora's Research Director and is responsible for managing and developing Aurora's suite of market intelligence services across European power markets, renewables, flexible and distributed energy, and global commodities. Before joining Aurora he was a Director and Head of Energy and Environment at Policy Exchange, where he authored a number of influential reports on energy and environmental policy and regulation. Prior to that he was the Chief Economist at The Crown Estate. Richard has a first class degree in Economics and an MSc in Environmental Policy.
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- Professor
- Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Saïd Business School
Robin Bidwell built and led the global environmental consultancy firm, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and currently chairs UNEP - WCMC (a Cambridge-based global biodiversity centre) and LOC (a London based global marine engineering consultancy). He chairs the investment committee of Insitor (an Asia focused social impact fund) and is on the board of two Kenya based charities. His previous positions include chair of the Green Alliance, member of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (OFGEM) and chair of their smart grids R&D funds and adviser to ZSL Conservation Programmes. He received a CBE for services to the environment in 1999.
Claire Perry O'Neill was a Government Whip and Transport Minister before becoming Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth. Claire wrote and implemented the UK's Clean Growth and Green Finance Strategies, created the global Powering Past Coal Alliance, oversaw the deployment of £3 billion of international Climate Finance and £200 million of cleantech innovation funding, negotiated the world's first public-private Offshore Wind Sector Deal and led the UK Carbon Capture and Storage taskforce. In 2019 she brought forward the country's ground-breaking Net Zero legislation and led the UK's winning bid to host the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). She served as COP26 President-Designate until she left politics in 2020 to lead the Climate and Energy team at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and create the WBCSD Business Manifesto for Climate Recovery launched at COP26. She now co-chairs the global Imperatives Advisory Board for WBCSD and has several global non-executive Director and senior Advisory roles.
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- Research Associate in Climate Science and the Law, Oxford Sustainable Law Programme
Rupert is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and helps to co-ordinate the SLP's research and engagement on climate science and its use in the law. His research focuses on the development of scientific evidence for environmental litigation and methodological advancements in climate change attribution science.
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- Founder of Neptune Energy
Sam is a founder of Neptune Energy and became its first Executive Chairman in 2015. Previously, Sam served as CEO of Centrica plc. He has also been a member of the UK Government's Energy Advisory Panel, President of the UK Offshore Operators Association, a member of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group, and a Non-executive Director of both HSBC Holdings plc and Hanson plc. Sam is a Non-executive Director of Rio Tinto plc and Chairman of the National Centre for Universities and Business.
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- Special Counsel, Minter Ellison Lawyers
In addition to a lengthy career in academia, John has also advised a number of governments and international organisations on issues specific to resource management, as well as the UK government on a broader range of scientific issues. From 2008-2013, John was Government Chief Scientific Adviser.
Sir Martin has been involved in the financial services sector for more than 40 years. After Oxford (physics) and Stanford (MBA) Universities, he spent time at Mckinsey, Citibank and Bankers Trust company. He then founded and served as senior partner of Phoenix Securities, becoming chairman of European investment banking for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) following the acquisition of Phoenix by DLJ in 1997. He was subsequently a founder of New Star Asset Management, and continues to have a number of other directorships and business interests, including chairmanships of Worldwide Healthcare Trust and GP Bullhound, a technology investment bank. His pro-bono interests include serving as a founder, Chairman and latterly Life President of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and terms as Chairman of English National Opera, board member of the Royal Academy of Music, the Glyndebourne Arts Trust and the Ashmolean Museum, and Deputy Chairman of the Science Museum. He is a Governor of Ditchley Park and Director of Client Earth. In 2008, he and his family founded the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University.
Sonia is Executive Director, Climate Change, at the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). Sonia oversees CIFF's Climate Change portfolio, which includes their work on Energy Decarbonisation, Air Quality, Industrial Decarbonisation and Land Use. Prior to joining CIFF, Sonia acted as Chief Operating Officer of a start-up company with a mission to connect Africa to the green energy economy by developing high-quality biomass supply chains deriving from existing plantations in West Africa.
Previously, Sonia worked at EcoSecurities, one of the largest carbon offset project developers in the world, from its start-up phase through to its acquisition by J.P. Morgan & Chase in early 2010. During a seven year period at EcoSecurities she held the position of US Country Director based out of New York and before that Global Head of Origination managing 20 local teams on five continents.
Prior to joining EcoSecurities, Sonia worked on climate change and energy issues at the United Nations Environment Program in Paris. Sonia holds a BSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Madrid, an MSc in Environmental Change and Management (specialisation in Energy and Environmental Economics) from the University of Oxford and an Executive MBA by the London Business School.
In 2009, Sonia was named a World Business Council for Sustainable Development Future Leader; in 2014, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; and in 2015, a Rising Talent by the Women's Forum for the Economy & Society.
Sonia sits on the Board of ClientEarth who use litigation to tackle climate change and protect the environment.
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- Programme Manager for the Oxford Programme on the Sustainable Future of Capital - Intensive Industries
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- Member of the Affiliated
- Essays on the Post - Carbon Transition
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- for Media and Press Enquiries
- Head of Strategic Communications
- Press Officer, SSEE
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- Head of Executive Education
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- Environmental Risks, Stranded Assets, and the Impacts of Regulation on Firm Productivity
Youcef is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford. His main areas of interest are financial regulation, environmental science and ethical philosophy. Youcef's DPhil focuses on how various financial market participants use sustainability service providers' data and ratings, and how the quality of the latter may be enhanced through regulation to better tackle climate issues.