LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Kenya CCG Network Project Assistant
Anne Nganga is a young dedicated professional, driven by a profound passion for advancing renewable energy solutions. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Renewable Energy Technology at Kenyatta University. With a Bachelor's degree in Geomatics and Geospatial Information Systems from Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Anne Nganga brings a strong foundation in data analysis and research methodologies. Having honed skills in GIS, remote sensing and statistical analysis, Anne is committed to leveraging their expertise to contribute meaningfully to the Climate Compatible Growth agenda. With a focus on fostering sustainable energy transitions and a deep-seated desire to make a positive impact on the environment, Anne is poised to drive transformative change in the renewable energy sector.
Job Titles:
- Postgraduate Researcher
- Researcher in the Geography & Environment Department
Carla is a postgraduate researcher in the Geography & Environment Department at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on energy modelling tools to support evidence-based policymaking. In 2021, she was the co-director of the "Summer School of Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development" organized virtually with ICTP Centre and other International Organizations. She holds a double-degree Master of Science from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, as part of the EIT InnoEnergy Master School. Before starting her postgraduate studies, she obtained her Bachelor in Energy Engineering from the University of Bologna. During the undergraduate period, she won two competitive Erasmus scholarships to study at the University Carlos III of Madrid and the University of Seville.
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- System Design Lead - Principal Investigator / Imperial College
Adam Hawkes leads the CCG System Design Workstream. He is a Reader in Energy Systems at Imperial College London, Director of the Sustainable Gas Institute, and Programme Lead for Energy Modelling at the Grantham Institute. He is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition journal, a new partner open access journal to the high impact Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. A Chartered Engineer, Dr Hawkes has more than 20 years' experience of technical leadership and management in the field of greenhouse gas mitigation approaches, energy technology assessment, and systems design and modelling. Adam has worked on key emerging challenges in energy systems such as global mitigation pathways, methane emissions, the future roles for conventional and low-carbon fuels, heat decarbonization, mass-market integration of renewables, and the role of carbon capture in sustainable energy systems. He frequently provides strategic advice to UK and international governments, industry, multilaterals, NGOs, and other energy stakeholders on topics ranging from technology appraisal through to policy impact assessment.
Alex Money leads the CCG Investment Pipelines Workstream. He is the founding MD of an early stage company focused on earth observation, and he concurrently directs an academic research programme at the University of Oxford. He is also an undergraduate tutor in geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He has around 25 years of practitioner experience in investment and industry. His previous data venture was backed by Oxford's Said Business School seed fund and venture capital. Prior to academia, he co-founded a capital markets ESG advisory firm, working with companies from £100 million to £100 billion by market value. He spent the first ten years of his career as an emerging markets equity fund manager in the City.
Job Titles:
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Geospatial Energy System Modelling / University of Oxford
- Researcher in the Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford
Alycia Leonard is a postdoctoral researcher in the Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford. She works on the CCG "Advancing GIS Modelling of Integrated Systems Analysis" workstream (WS3a), where she presently focuses on subnational energy systems planning as it relates to social and economic development in Kenya and Zambia. Prior to CCG, Alycia completed her DPhil in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, preceded by her B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland under full scholarship. Alycia's research investigates the design of sustainable and inclusive energy access systems which account for local community needs. Her work is multi-method and multi-disciplinary, combining data-driven spatial analysis and machine learning with nuanced consideration of policy context and stakeholder perspectives. It is informed by her experience working in power utilities, NGOs, and social enterprises in Canada and Ghana. Alongside her research, Alycia is a Stipendiary Lecturer at Christ Church College. She has taught undergraduate students at the University of Oxford in circuit analysis, digital electronics, communication networks, computer vision, signal analysis, project management, and engineering ethics.
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- CCG Research Associate / Imperial College
- Research Associate at Imperial College London
Ariane Millot is currently a Research Associate at Imperial College London, where she supports the Research Workstream 3 on System Design within the Climate Compatible Growth programme. She is also involved in projects related to Kenya and Zambia. Her research interests include energy system modelling and the economic and social impacts of the energy transition. She holds a PhD in energy modelling from Mines Paris - PSL, where she developed pathways for the French energy transition with a bottom-up optimization model (TIMES). She also worked at the International Energy Agency on the buildings sector for the World Energy Outlook, where she provided insights for several reports including the special Net Zero report.
Job Titles:
- Co - Investigator / Imperial College
- Co - Investigator at CCG
Aruna Sivakumar is a co-investigator at CCG. She is a senior lecturer in consumer behaviour and urban systems at the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London. She is also director of the Urban Systems Lab at Imperial and leads several smart city and systems modelling initiatives. As PI, she has attracted funding worth over £2m over the last 7 years from national and international sources such as EPSRC, ESRC, Shell Inc in the UK, and SMRT Singapore. Over a career spanning 15+ years Aruna has published more than 40 peer reviewed journal papers, made over 100 conference presentations, and published several book chapters. She has an h-index of 20 (google scholar)/16 (Scopus), i10 index of 30, and her review paper on urban energy systems has been cited nearly 500 times over the 9 years since it was published. Her research on activity based microsimulation models of urban resource demands is internationally renowned. Aruna is a member of several scientific committees, including subcommittees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in the US and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS). She is an editorial board member of Transportation Letters and a founding stakeholder of the Zephry Foundation for Advancing Travel Analysis Methods.
Job Titles:
- Decarbonizing Transport Co - Lead / University of Oxford
James is a research fellow in transport-energy systems in the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford. His research looks at the challenges and opportunities of integrating sustainable transport systems with high-renewables electricity systems, to accelerate transport-energy decarbonization pathways in different contexts around the world. James is a Chartered Engineer, having worked as a technical advisor to the UK Government on low-carbon energy systems, and as a manufacturing engineer in the aerospace and nuclear industries. [Read more]
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- Sector Interactions Co - Lead / University of Cambridge
Dr Jonathan Cullen is the University Lecturer in Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure at the University of Cambridge. He leads the Resource Efficiency Collective (www.refficiency.org) and has a reputation for top-down studies of resource systems, bringing skills in developing new metrics to reflect both energy and material consequences of materials production. Jonathan studied Chemical and Process Engineering in New Zealand and began his career as a Process Engineer in heavy industry. After 5 years, he moved to Lima, Peru, where he was involved in projects with ITDG (Intermediate Technology Development Group) and UNALM (Universidad Nacional Agraria de La Molina) to develop biodiesel energy… [Read more]
Dr Jonathan Cullen is the University Lecturer in Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure at the University of Cambridge. He leads the Resource Efficiency Collective (www.refficiency.org) and has a reputation for top-down studies of resource systems, bringing skills in developing new metrics to reflect both energy and material consequences of materials production. Jonathan studied Chemical and Process Engineering in New Zealand and began his career as a Process Engineer in heavy industry. After 5 years, he moved to Lima, Peru, where he was involved in projects with ITDG (Intermediate Technology Development Group) and UNALM (Universidad Nacional Agraria de La Molina) to develop biodiesel energy source options for Peru, including a mid-size plant to process used cooking oil in Lima and small-scale conversion of jungle seeds to biodiesel in isolated Amazon jungle communities. He also contracted Glidepath and Bechtel Overseas to design and install baggage handling and x-ray screening equipment at Lima and Santiago International Airports. After 10 years in industry and development work he moved to Cambridge to undertake the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development and complete a PhD on the Engineering Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency, before taking up roles of Research Associate and then University Lecturer. Jonathan currently leads C-THRU: carbon clarity in the global petrochemical supply chain (VKRF, US$4m). He is currently a co-investigator on: S2uPPlant: Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging from Plants (UKRI, £1m), UK FIRES: Locating Resource Efficiency at the heart of Future Industrial Strategy (EPSRC, £5.2m), and CirPlas: Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste (UKRI, £1.25m). He is a Lead Author for the IPCC AR6 Industry Chapter, an Expert Adviser to the IEA Technology Roadmaps, and co-authored the book Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open, which pioneered the concept of material efficiency for energy-intensive industries.
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- Policies & Investment Lead / University College London
Julia Tomei leads the CCG Policies for CCG Investment Workstream. She is a Lecturer in Energy, Resources and Development at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Her research advances understandings of the human and political dimensions of energy and resource use in developing countries. Her work engages with research users from policy, academia, and industry and examines the practical and policy mechanisms that can advance sustainable development. She draws on a range of social science theories and methods in her research and regards her experience and outlook as truly interdisciplinary. She has published more than 20 papers in a range of leading peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Energy, The Lancet, and Energy Policy, and has worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Kabwe Mubanga holds a PhD in Environment and Society from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is a lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA) and serves as a climate change specialist under the National Technical Committee for Climate Change and a climate change negotiator for Zambia. He sits on the Adaptation and Means of Implementation and Disaster Management sub-committees for Zambia. Kabwe is also a Director at the Centre for Climate Change Policy and Integrated Research (CCCPiR).
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Global Equality
- National Engagement Lead / CEO, Centre for Global Equality and University of Cambridge
Lara Allen is the CCG National Engagement Lead. She is the CEO of the Centre for Global Equality (CGE), a Cambridge-based civil society organization that enables the evolution of innovative solutions to global challenges by facilitating productive interactions between academia, civil society, government, business, and under-resourced communities in developing countries. She is also an Affiliated Lecturer in Inclusive Innovation at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, where she directs the Inclusive Innovation Programme. She has more than ten years of experience as an international development practitioner, having worked as a consultant, employee, and volunteer with grassroots Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and national and international NGOs, in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ireland, and the UK. Prior to this she was an academic with nine years of post-PhD experience at the University of Cambridge and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. As head of CGE, she has led the evolution of the organization's approach to Inclusive Innovation. This is premised on facilitating productive collaborations between academic researchers and key actors in civil society, government, and business to ensure that innovations stemming from research are appropriate for the intended end-users and are diffused and scaled effectively.
Lara Allen, chief executive officer of Centre for Global Equality, and Elizabeth Tennyson, country programme manager, were joined by Oliver Ballhatchet MBE Deputy High Commissioner and Vice-Chancellor of Anna University Dr R Velraj for the signing of the collaboration agreement.
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Senior Research Fellow & CCG Policies and Investment Co - Lead / University College London
Meron Tesfamichael is co-lead of the policies and investment research workstream within CCG. Meron is a senior research fellow and lecturer of political economy at the Department of Science, Engineering, Technology and Public Policy (STEaPP) at the University College London. Her work focuses on the political economy, social feasibility and just transition implications of CCG policies and initiatives. [Read more]
Dr Nguyen Hoang Nam is a lecturer and a senior policy advisor, his research interests range across areas of judgment & decision making, ecosystem valuation, cost-benefit analysis, carbon markets and circular economy. Dr Nam provides related trainings to government officials and currently work as a policy advisor for the National Action Plan for Circular Economy Implementation. He has worked with projects funded by international agencies such as Australian Award, Asian Development Bank, USAID, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Foundation for Science. Dr. Nam also acts as coordinator for several national and international projects in Vietnam and in the Philippines.
Job Titles:
- Researcher at Strathmore Energy
Patrick Mwanzia is a researcher at Strathmore Energy Research Centre with more than six years of experience in conducting research in the sustainable energy sector.
In this capacity, he has researched and managed projects covering diverse aspects of sustainable energy and community development, including energy provision in humanitarian settings. He holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and an MSc degree in Energy Policy and Management from Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Science (PAUWES), Algeria.
He is also a registered graduate engineer with the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK). His research interests are renewable energy technologies and the energy policy and regulatory framework.
Job Titles:
- Economics and Policy Co - Lead / University of Oxford
Philipp is a co-lead of the Economics and Policy research workstream in CCG, focusing on potential green high-impact economic opportunities for low-income countries (e.g. power-to-X, servitisation approaches, energy for productive use) as well as the business models and policy mixes to enable these opportunities. Philipp is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Chair of Operations Management at RWTH Aachen University, and an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography at Oxford. He has a decade of experience in the energy sector of emerging and industrialised economies, working for the University of Oxford as well as for McKinsey & Company and Ashoka International as a strategy consultant. Among others, he has consulted the Ugandan, Ghanaian, Zambian, Kenyan, UK and German governments, the European Union, IRENA, the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank as well as various different African private sector start-ups on issues relating to energy for sustainable development.
Job Titles:
- Researcher at the Sustainable Gas Institute
- Researcher in Energy System Modelling and System Design / Imperial College
Pooya is a researcher at the Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on using mathematical optimization and whole system modelling approaches for infrastructure planning, supply chain modelling, and studying the implication of climate change mitigation and development targets on the energy system transition. Pooya is part of the System Design Workstream (WS3) at CCG. She leads the IRENA FlexTool modelling and training and is also part of the National Partnership teams in Viet Nam and Kenya. Pooya completed her PhD at the Centre for Environmental Policy and Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. In her PhD she developed a whole-system modelling tool for the coordinated operation and investment planning of electricity and gas grids and analysing different transition pathways for decarbonising heating.
Job Titles:
- Research Manager
- Research Manager & Advanced GIS Modelling Co - Lead / University of Oxford
Stephanie Hirmer is the CCG Research Manager and leads the Advanced GIS modelling workstream. She is a Senior Researcher in Energy Systems at the Energy and Power Group at the University of Oxford where she looks at integrating community viewpoints into energy-related decision-making. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge where she completed her PhD and now delivers a course on Energy, Development and Rural Livelihood. She is a co-founder and Director of Research and Innovation at Rural Senses Ltd., a social enterprise that uses AI-enhanced data analysis and user-centric data collection to make it easy for project developers to understand rural community needs and evaluate project impacts efficiently and accurately. Previously, Stephanie worked as a researcher for the Smart Villages Initiative and lived and worked in rural Uganda and Germany, where she worked as a consultant for the German Development Agency (GIZ). As part of this work she designed and implemented community-run hydropower schemes with local governments, worked on an up-scaling strategy for pico-hydropower and solar PV, and developed and implemented operation and maintenance procedures for the same projects. She has also successfully delivered projects for clients such as KfW, Dorsch Consulting, Arup, etc.
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- Contract & Public Goods Project Manager / University College London
Steve Pye is the CCG Contract & Publics Goods Project Manager. He is an Associate Professor of Energy Systems at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London (UCL). Steve has 15 years' research experience on energy and climate modelling and policy analysis. His research concerns the challenge of energy system decarbonization, using different whole system energy modelling approaches, with a particular focus on scenario modelling of national and global low-carbon pathways, uncertainty assessment, and the equity and health dimensions of energy transitions. Steve's research track record is reflected in over 40 peer review journal articles and numerous technical reports and papers. Steve has led multiple research projects for a range of funders including the Energy Technologies Institute, the UK Committee on Climate Change, and the European Commission. Most recently, he has been a researcher co-investigator on the CREDS Heat Decarbonisation Challenge, focused on how models consider features of Energy System Architecture. Steve has also been involved in a range of major international initiatives, including the Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Initiative, Lancet Countdown, and the UNEP Production Gap report.
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- Platform Manager & Principal Investigator / KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Will Usher is the CCG Platform Manager. He is an experienced modeller and researcher of energy and infrastructure systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he works as a Professor of Integrated Systems Analysis for Sustainable Development. He joined the division in 2019 and brings his experience of leading large open-source research projects to the home of OSeMOSYS, CLEWS, and OnSSET. Will Usher's research interests bridge three related themes: model integration and infrastructure system-of-systems; energy systems optimization modelling and transition pathways; and decision-making under uncertainty and uncertainty quantification. His research approach is grounded in engineering, but highly interdisciplinary, bringing together economics, environmental, and social sciences, a necessary response to the unique research challenges facing us today. As well as authoring peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Energy Policy, Climatic Change, and Energy Strategy Reviews, Will is the author of multiple open source software packages, including the widely used global sensitivity analysis library, SALib. He is a trained Software Carpentry instructor and advocate for the principles of open-science and reproducible research. Dr Usher completed his PhD in Energy and Modelling at University College London, where he extended national techno-economic energy systems models to explore greenhouse gas mitigation pathways under decision dependent uncertainty. Also at UCL he contributed to the quantification of the UK's 4th Carbon Budget for the Committee on Climate Change. Prior to this, Dr Usher was awarded an MSc Environmental Technology with Distinction from Imperial College London.
Will Usher is the CCG Platform Manager. He is an experienced modeller and researcher of energy and infrastructure systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he works as a Professor of Integrated Systems Analysis for Sustainable Development. He joined the division in 2019 and brings his experience of leading large open-source research projects to the home of OSeMOSYS, CLEWS, and OnSSET. Will Usher's research interests bridge three related themes: model integration and infrastructure system-of-systems; energy systems optimization modelling and transition pathways; and decision-making under uncertainty and uncertainty quantification. His research approach is grounded in engineering, but highly interdisciplinary, bringing… [Read more]
Dr. Le Huy Huan graduated with a Ph.D. in Economic Management from National Economics University, Vietnam and is now a lecturer. Dr. Huan has more than 10 years of experience in key research areas including sustainable development, natural resources & environment management, agriculture and rural development, regional planning, and circular economy. He has also participated in many projects funded by international organizations such as UNDP, GIZ, FAO, and SNV.
Assoc Prof Nguyen Thanh Hieu has 25+ years of teaching experience at NEU, and many years in management positions such as Dean of Faculty of Business Administration (2013 - 2021) and Institute Head of International Training Institute (2021 - 2023). Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Hieu is a member of the Party Committee and a member of the School Council. Assoc. He is an alumnus of Business Administration at National Economics University. He graduated in 2010 with a doctorate from East University. Anglia - UK, and has a master's degree from UTCC Thailand in 2003
Job Titles:
- Country Programme Manager
Job Titles:
- Decarbonizing Transport Lead / CEO, Sustain 2030
Holger Dalkmann advises CCG on their national and international partnership strategy as well as leading the research on electrifying transport. He has over twenty-five years of experience working in the field of transport, cities, sustainability, and climate change. He is founder and CEO of his own business (Sustain 2030) based in Berlin, Germany. He operates as an independent consultant providing strategic and technical advice for a variety of organizations like the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Volvo Research Foundation (VREF), UNCRD, and Agora Verkehrswende. For FCDO, he works as a Senior Advisor… [Read more]
Holger Dalkmann advises CCG on their national and international partnership strategy as well as leading the research on electrifying transport. He has over twenty-five years of experience working in the field of transport, cities, sustainability, and climate change. He is founder and CEO of his own business (Sustain 2030) based in Berlin, Germany. He operates as an independent consultant providing strategic and technical advice for a variety of organizations like the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Volvo Research Foundation (VREF), UNCRD, and Agora Verkehrswende. For FCDO, he works as a Senior Advisor on High Volume Transport (HVT) where he recently published several documents on COVID-19 impacts on the transport sector. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at international events. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the World Conference for Transport Research Society. Holger is one of the co-founders of the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLOCAT). He has been on the SLOCAT board since 2013 and acted as Interim Secretary General in 2018. From 2011 until 2017 he worked for the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. He was Director for its Sustainable Mobility programme (EMBARQ), which catalysed environmentally and financially sustainable urban transport solutions to improve quality of life in cities with six offices around the world. He was responsible for more than 150 employees. During his former work at the UK-based consultancy, TRL, and for ten years at the Wuppertal Institute for Energy, Climate and Environment (Germany), a world respected think tank, Holger worked in more than thirty countries on mobility, environment, and climate change. Holger holds a Master's degree in Geography and taught at the University of Duisburg and University of Trier. He has published over 100 articles including the influential Avoid-Shift-Improve concept.
Clement Sichimwa is a lecturer and researcher, with an MSc in Environmental Ecology and pursuing a PhD in Tourism Management. His research interests include Tourism, Gender, and Climate Change. Nearing completion of his PhD at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Clement is excited to be supporting research efforts with the Climate Compatible Growth programme.
Martin Mutembei works on initiatives in Consultancy, Research and Training. He worked at Africa Nazarene University as a lecturer and Telkom Kenya in ICT projects management spheres. He is passionate about promoting adoption of energy solutions that are clean, reliable, and sustainable through training and designing solutions that enable sustainable energy transitions.
Currently he is working with the CCG National Partnerships team to coordinate the research activities in the Kenya CCG Network. This entails supporting researchers, influencers and decision-makers, working together in Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to co-create and implement research that harness CCG-derived evidence, tools and frameworks.
Martin holds a Master's Degree in Strategic Management. He also has training in Enterprise Design Thinking (IBM Training), Solar PV Standalone and Solar PV Grid Tie Systems training.
Job Titles:
- Green Grids Initiative Lead / Climate Parliament
A former Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action and Executive Director of EarthAction, Nick has long experience of organizing innovative global political networks. He worked as a consultant on political engagement for the United Nations and has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio and other celebrities on climate campaigns. Nick was co-recipient of the first Indira Gandhi Prize, presented by the President of India for his work on convening a group of heads of government to help end the Cold War called the Six Nation Peace Initiative. He is a citizen of Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa. [Read more]
Paxwell Damptey Adjei is a researcher who specialises in crop processing technologies, postharvest engineering, and biomass waste management. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Food and Postharvest Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. With more than four years of research experience, he has worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant and a Project Research Assistant at the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. Mr. Adjei's goal is to lead research efforts focused on generating energy from biomass waste to enhance food processing and preservation technologies.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Coordinator
- Co - Coordinator of CCG
Francis Kemausuor is a co-coordinator of CCG activities in Ghana. Francis is an Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at KNUST. He is also a fellow of The Brew-Hammond Energy Centre (the unit that coordinates CCG activities) at KNUST. His work focuses on Energy Policy and Planning, Rural Energy Systems and Bioenergy Technologies. Together with Dr Joseph Oppong Akowuah, Francis coordinates CCG activities in Ghana.
Job Titles:
- Co - Investigator / University of Oxford
- 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… [Read more]
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 organizations) 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.
Job Titles:
- Programme Deputy Director
Ed Brown is the is the CCG Programme Deputy Director. Ed's research interests lie in the fields of governance and international development issues with current research outputs focusing upon: energy access and low-carbon energy transitions; questions of transparency and corruption; and financial globalization and the financial needs of the poor. Ed has also long had a particular interest in the Central American region where he has explored the political economy of state reforms as well as the broader impacts of neoliberal globalization. Recently, much of Ed's activity has been focused on issues surrounding the uptake of low-carbon energy technologies within the Global South. He is PI on a new multi-million DFID-funded research programme on Modern Energy Cooking Services which are running in collaboration with a range of UK universities, ESMAP and the Clean Cooking Alliance. Ed is the Co-Coordinator of the UK Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (LCEDN) which builds bridges between the divergent branches of academia working on energy and international development issues. Through this Ed also leads the LCEDN's involvement in DFID's Transforming Energy Access initiative. He is (or has recently been) PI on three EPSRC/DFID-funded projects in this field. One involves networking the projects funded under the RCUK Understanding Sustainable Energy Solutions (USES Network) programme, whilst the other two are research projects, one exploring the implications of political decentralization for energy governance in Africa (READ) and the other exploring the potential of solar nano-grids in the contexts of Kenya and Bangladesh (SONG).
Ed Brown is the is the CCG Programme Deputy Director. Ed's research interests lie in the fields of governance and international development issues with current research outputs focusing upon: energy access and low-carbon energy transitions; questions of transparency and corruption; and financial globalization and the financial needs of the poor. Ed has also long had a particular interest in the Central American region where he has explored the political economy of state reforms as well as the broader impacts of neoliberal globalization. Recently, much of Ed's activity has been focused on issues surrounding the uptake of low-carbon energy technologies within… [Read more]
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- Sector Interactions Co - Lead / University of Oxford
Jim Hall co-leads the CCG Systems Integration Workstream. He is Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford and is Director of Research in the School of Geography and the Environment. Before joining the University of Oxford in 2011 to become Director of the University's Environmental Change Institute, Prof. Hall held academic positions in Newcastle University and the University of Bristol. Prof. Hall is internationally recognized for his research on risk analysis and decision-making under uncertainty for water resource systems, flood and coastal risk management, infrastructure systems, and adaptation to climate change. Professor Hall is a member of the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology and is Expert Advisor to the National Infrastructure Commission. He is Chair of the Science Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He was a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019.
Job Titles:
- CCG Research Director
- Research Director / University College London
Jim Watson is the CCG Research Director. He is Professor of Energy Policy and Research Director at the Institute of Sustainable Resources, University College London (UCL). He was previously Research Director and Director of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2013 to 2019, and Director of the Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex from 2008 to 2013. Jim has over 25 years' research experience on climate change, energy, and innovation policy. This includes leading interdisciplinary research on the UK energy transition, international collaborations with colleagues in China, India, Ghana, and Zambia, and a period as a Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He frequently advises UK government departments and other organizations and has been a Specialist Adviser with three UK Parliamentary committees. He is chair of the technical advisory group to the World Bank's Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), a judge for the Queen's Awards (on sustainable development), and an executive committee member of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
Mark Howells is the CCG Programme Director. He is jointly appointed at Loughborough University and Imperial College, London. Previously at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden he set up their prestigious Energy Systems Analysis programme. He led the development of some of the world's premier open source energy, resource, and spatial electrification planning tools; published in several Nature Journals; coordinated the European Commission's think tank for Energy; is regularly used by the United Nations as a science-policy expert; and is a key contributor to UNDESA's 'Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development Policies' initiative. His work has contributed to efforts for NASA, IRENA, ABB, the World Bank, and others.
He sits on the advisory panels of leading US and European institutes. Prior to joining academia, Mark had an award winning career with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Mark's graduate and post-graduate studies were undertaken at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. While there he was an international research affiliate at Stanford's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and represented the World Energy Council's student programme.
Nilay Shah oversees the CCG COP engagement. He is Director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. He works on energy systems modelling and engineering, bio-based process systems, hydrogen infrastructures, supply chain modelling, process optimization, biochemical process design, and plant safety. He is particularly interested in the transfer of technology and expertise from academia to industry. [Read more]
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- Economics & Policy Lead / University of Oxford
Sam Fankhauser leads the CCG Economics and Policy Workstream. He is Professor of Climate Change Economics and Policy at the University of Oxford, where he is affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the School of Geography and the Environment. He is also Research Director of Oxford Net Zero and a Fellow of Reuben College. Outside academia, Sam is a Non-Executive Director of CDC Group, the UK's development finance institution, and an Associate Director at economics consultancy Vivid Economics. He was an inaugural member of the UK Committee on Climate Change, on which he served from 2008 to 2016. Before joining Oxford, Sam was Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, where he remains a Visiting Professor. Prior to that, he worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank, and the Global Environment Facility. He has studied economics at the University of Berne (Switzerland), the London School of Economics, and University College London.
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- Open Education Lead & Principal Investigator / Open University
Satheesh Krishnamurthy is the CCG Open Education Lead. He has over 20 years' research experience in renewable energy within academia and industry. He specializes in the laser and plasma processing of renewable energy materials and chemical vapour deposition of semiconductor nanomaterials. His research is widely published with over 80 publications in scientific journals and book chapters, some with impact factor of 8 to 35, and over 7000 citations. He is committed to the practical application and sustainability of research through commercialization of renewable energy technologies and strengthening the capacity of academics and entrepreneurs in developing countries. Professor Krishnamurthy has successfully assembled, led, and managed many multidisciplinary, multi-country research collaborations between UK/Irish and Southern hemisphere academic, NGO, and private sector partners to address the intractable global challenge of access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy. He was awarded UK India Research Excellence in 2016 by British Prime minister delegation to India.
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- Partnerships Director & International Engagement Lead / University College London
Yacob Mulugetta is in charge of the Partnerships Directorate for CCG. He is a Professor of Energy and Development Policy at the University College London and held an academic post at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK. He is a founding member of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) based in Ethiopia where he worked as Senior Climate & Energy Specialist (2010-2013). He has 25 years of research, teaching, and advisory experience specializing on the links between energy infrastructure provision and human welfare. His research is focused on three interconnected areas: energy systems and development; energy systems and climate change; and political economy of low-carbon development. He served as a Coordinating Lead Author of the Energy Systems chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (Working Group III on Mitigation), lead author in the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, and is currently lead author in the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (Demand, Services & Social Aspects of Mitigation). He recently led the chapter on Energy Transitions in UNEP's Emissions Gap Report (2019). Yacob Mulugetta is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).