Prof Tim Lenton
EEIST Director, Exeter
Professor Tim Lenton is the Director of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. Tim’s research focuses on understanding the behaviour of the Earth as a whole system, the complex web of biological, geochemical and physical processes that shape the chemical composition of the atmosphere and oceans, as well as the climate of the Earth. His award-winning work identifying Tipping Points in the climate system has led him to examine Positive Tipping Points within our social systems which could help accelerate progress towards a sustainable future. He is a member of the Earth Commission and is a Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher. Tim has twice been cited in lists of the world’s most influential climate scientists.
Prof Michael Grubb
EEIST Strategy & Evidence Director, UCL
Michael is Research Director and Professor of Energy and Climate Change at University College London’s Institute for Sustainable Resources.
A former Senior Advisor to UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (the energy regulator, Ofgem). Michael also chaired UK Government’s Panel of Technical Experts on Electricity Market Reform, and he was previously Chief Economist to UK Carbon Trust, and Head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House.
Dr Jean-Francois Mercure
EEIST Strategic Advisor, World Bank
Jean-Francois is Associate Professor in Climate Change Policy and Assistant Director of Policy Impact at the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute.
He pioneers models and methods for public policy appraisal in low-carbon innovation based on complexity science, and for assessing the macroeconomic impacts of low-carbon, energy and climate policies.
Dr Peter Barbrook-Johnson
EEIST Technical Modelling Lead, Oxford
Pete Barbrook-Johnson is a Departmental Research Lecturer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Environmental Change Institute, and the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. His research interests sit at the crossroads of social science and economics, complexity science, and environmental and energy policy. He uses a range of methods in his research including agent-based modelling, network analysis, and systems mapping, to explore applied social, economic, and policy questions, and to support complexity-appropriate policy evaluation, but is equally interested in more theoretical aspects of complex adaptive systems.
Simon Sharpe
EEIST Policy Impact Lead, S-Curve Economics CIC
Simon is Managing Director of S-Curve Economics, a new non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing understanding of the economics of the low carbon transition. He is also Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team, and author of Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change, which was listed by the Times and Financial Times as one of the best environment books of the year 2023. Simon was previously Deputy Director of the UK government’s COP26 Unit, where he led international campaigns on energy, transport, land use, science and innovation. His other roles in government included leading international climate change strategy, developing the approach to clean growth in the UK’s industrial strategy, and serving as head of private office to Ministers of State for Energy and Climate Change. He also served on diplomatic postings to China and India. Simon has published academic papers on climate change science and economics, and policy reports on climate change risk assessment, economics, and diplomacy.
Dr Cristina Peñasco
EEIST Evaluation Lead, Cambridge
Christina is a University of Cambridge Lecturer in public Policy at POLIS (Department of Politics and International Studies). At Cambridge, she is also a Fellow at Queens’ College, a Centre Fellow at Centre for the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), and an associate researcher of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy.
Her research is multidisciplinary in nature, bringing together aspects of environmental economics, innovation policy and energy economics in green and energy efficiency technologies, with a focus on policy instruments enabling the transition to low-carbon economies.
University of Exeter Programme Coordination
Jacqui Richards
Programme Manager, Exeter
As well as studying for her first degree at Exeter, Jacqui has worked on the EEIST project since its inception and is now the lead Project Manager of this innovative and globally impactful research programme. This role builds on her experience teaching Spanish, examining and writing and she has a broad spectrum of customer –facing publishing, advertising and client management experience in the educational environment. Jacqui’s role is based within the University’s Impact, Innovation and Business department where she is well placed to drive maximum impact from EEIST project, supporting better decision making in government and businesses worldwide and contributing to the University’s aim to lead meaningful action against the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
Sarah Board
Project Officer, Exeter
Sarah joined the EEIST team in June and supports all areas of the project. Prior to going on maternity leave, she had previously worked in the law sector as a family law paralegal for 12 years. She decided she wanted a change in career. She joined the University as an Administrator for Professor Tim Lenton of the Global Systems Institute on a temporary contract. Sarah very much enjoyed this area of work and wanted to continue in this field. She was successful in obtaining her post as the EEIST Project Officer which is based within the University’s Impact, Innovation and Business Department.
Dr Femke Nijsse
Femke is a lecturer in Energy, Climate and Innovation. She has been working on improving the representation of electricity production in the E3ME-FTT model, in specific the modelling of renewables and storage technologies. Her current focus is on the potential of triggering cascading tipping points to accelerate decarbonisation.
Cormac Lynch
I am a PhD research student at the Global Systems Institute at Exeter University. My research looks at how climate policy and technological innovation can lead to structural economic change and how socio-economic disparities and post-industrial decline can emerge from this.
Prof Cameron Hepburn
Cameron Hepburn is Director of the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE).
He has published widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across a range of disciplines. Cameron is Professor of Environmental Economics at the Smith School and at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.
Prof Doyne Farmer
Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the Oxford Martin School.
He is also a Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His current research is in economics, including agent-based modelling, financial instability and technological progress.
Dr Peter Barbrook-Johnson
Technical Modelling Lead
Pete Barbrook-Johnson is a Departmental Research Lecturer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Environmental Change Institute, and the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. His research interests sit at the crossroads of social science and economics, complexity science, and environmental and energy policy. He uses a range of methods in his research including agent-based modelling, network analysis, and systems mapping, to explore applied social, economic, and policy questions, and to support complexity-appropriate policy evaluation, but is equally interested in more theoretical aspects of complex adaptive systems.
Alex Clark
Alex is a PhD researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, where his research focuses on the identification and transmission of fossil-fuel related economic risks in the public sector, and how governments and their agents should respond to these risks, with a focus on China. Alex supports Oxford’s engagement with China through the Economics of Energy Innovation and Systems Transition (EEIST) project. Alex is a Global China Initiative Fellow at Boston University, a Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Europaeum Scholar, and a 2021 Summer Programme fellow at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Alex has also worked as a consultant to the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). He holds an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from Oxford University, and is a former holder of the Henry Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he focused on energy geopolitics and policy, electric mobility and international law.
Anna Berryman
I am a PhD research student at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford on the InFoMM CDT. My research focuses on the labour market and the effects of the post-carbon transition; we use a network structure and agent-based model to gain insights into the direct and indirect effects to jobs during the transition.
Dr Arabella Miller-Wang
Arabella Miller-Wang provides China engagement support on the EEIST Project to facilitate the collaboration and coordination between the University of Oxford and its Chinese partners. She also provides research support for the project.
Arabella has been engaged in policy research in China and the UK for nearly a decade, providing policy analysis and market insights in the Chinese energy sector. Her main interests are renewable energy, hydrogen, and international cooperation in the energy field
Joris Bücker
Joris is a PhD student at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on future changes to occupations and skills, as well as global trade patterns, during the post-carbon transition. He uses quantitative methods borrowed from complex systems modelling, such as network science.
Joris holds an MSc in Complex Systems Modelling from King’s College London, and a BSc in Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam.
Lennart Baumgärtner
Lennart is a DPhil student at the Institute of New Economic Thinking, Oxford. His research focusses on Energy system modelling in connection to hydrogen-based decarbonization. This includes modelling the production of hydrogen and hydrogen-based fuels, as well as studying the implications for energy-intensive sectors in terms of profitability and risk.
Previously, Lennart has worked as a consultant for the Automotive, Mining and Energy sector at McKinsey & Co. in Munich. He holds a Masters degree in Physics from ETH Zurich where he concentrated on Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Theory.
Benjamin Wagenvoort
Benjamin Wagenvoort is a DPhil student at the School of Geography and the Environment at University of Oxford. He is a part of the Economics of Sustainability and Complexity Economics groups. He holds a MSc in Mathematical Sciences from University of Oxford and a BSc in Liberal Arts and Sciences from Amsterdam University College.
Benjamin is undertaking research with Doyne Farmer, Peter Barbrook-Johnson and Matthew Ives on energy systems modelling and the green transition. His research includes energy systems modelling while maintaining heterogeneity in the demand and supply side of the system. His interest lies in using agent-based modelling and network theory to model the effect of policies to achieve a green transition.
Prof Andrea Roventini
Andrea is full Professor at the Institute of Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy), and Research Fellow at OFCE Sciences Po (France). Andrea provides Complexity Economics expertise to the EEIST Programme.
He holds a PhD in Economics and Management from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. His main research interests include complex system analysis, agent-based computational economics, business cycles, economic growth and the study of the effects of monetary, fiscal, technology, innovation and climate-change policies. He is currently the principal investigator and consortium coordinator of the Horizon 2020 GROWINPRO project financed by the European Commission. He has been involved in the projects IMPRESSIONS, DOLFINS, and ISIGrowth financed by the European Commission. He is editor of Industrial and Corporate Chance – Macro Economics and Development and advisory editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
Giovanni Dosi
Giovanni is Professor at the Institute of Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
He also serves as co-director of the Industrial Policy and Intellectual Property Rights task forces at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. Giovanni is included in the ISI Highly Cited Research list, denoting those who made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and technological change, industrial economics, evolutionary theory, economic growth and development, as well as organizational studies.
Prof Francesco Lamperti
Francesco is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics and the EMbeDS Department at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute of Economics and the Environment based in Milan.
Francesco has research expertise in macroeconomics, agent based and integrated assessment modelling, climate change economics and dynamics of natural disasters.
Prof Francesca Chiaromonte
Francesca is Professor of Statistics at the Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
She also works at Penn State University, USA, in the Department for Statistics. In 2019, Francesca was named the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences. Francesca is a statistician developing methods for the analysis of large, high-dimensional and complex data, applying such methods in several scientific fields – including contemporary “Omics” sciences, Meteorology and Economics.
Matteo Coronese
Matteo Coronese is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics and EMbeDS Department at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
His main research interests includes macroeconomics, agent-based modeling, climate-change economics and impacts of natural disasters.
Prof João Carlos Ferraz
João Carlos Ferraz is Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) Institute of Economics.
Prof Ferraz was Vice-President and Executive Director at the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), responsible for Economic Research, Corporate Planning and Risk Management (2007- 2016). He was also Director of the Division of Productive Development, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations (2003-2007).
Kaio Glauber
Kaio Glauber Vital da Costa is Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) Institute of Economics.
His research expertise includes international trade, structural change, environment and sustainable development, graph theory, and structural analysis based on input-output matrices.
Prof Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young
Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young is Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) Institute of Economics.
His teaching and research expertise spans environmental and natural resource economics, covering environmental policy, ecosystem services valuation, deforestation determinants, conservation policy, climate change economics, and green accounting.
Helder Queiroz Pinto Jr
Helder Queiroz Pinto Jr is Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) Institute of Economics.
His research experience covers many topics in industrial economics, energy economics, and economic regulation. Prof. Queiroz Pinto was the Director of the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels (ANP) and a Member of the Electric Sector Monitoring Committee (CMSE) (2011-2015).
Matheus Trotta Vianna
Matheus’ research experience spans macroeconomics, with an emphasis on monetary economics, economic dynamics, and economic simulation models.
Carolina Dias
Carolina Dias is a project manager at the University Federal of Rio de Janeiro’s (UFRJ) Institute of Economics.
Andrea Cabello
Andrea Cabello is an Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia since 2012. She has done extensive work on Education and Innovation, with a focus on training, research, policy and more specifically, the space sector.
Prof José Maria F. J. da Silveira
José Maria is Professor at the Institute of Economics at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
He is lead researcher of two biofuel-related projects and has led several national and international projects sponsored by FAPESP, CNPQ, World Bank and IDRC. His works have been published in high impact journals such as Scientometrics and Research Policy. His main research interests include innovation economics, adaptive complex systems, complex social networks, agriculture and biotechnology, and sustainable energy and biofuels.
Prof Marcelo C. Pereira
Marcelo is Associate Professor at the IE, UNICAMP, Brazil.
He is also research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies- Pisa, Italy. He holds a PhD in Economics from UNICAMP. His main research interests include agent-based modelling, adaptive complex systems, complex social networks, innovation, business cycles and crises, endogenous growth and structural change, labor markets dynamics and climate-change policies.
Prof Zhang Xiliang
Zhang Xiliang is Professor and Director of the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University.
He is also Director of the Tsinghua-MIT China Energy and Climate Project, and Director of China Automotive Energy Research Center, Tsinghua University. Zhang has expertise across low-carbon energy economy transformation, integrated assessment of energy and climate policies, renewable energy and automotive energy. Since 2015, he has headed the expert group on China’s national carbon market design under the Department of Climate Change of Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
Dr ZHOU Li
Dr ZHOU Li is an Associate Professor of the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University, and Deputy Director of China Carbon Market Center (CCMC).
She is an expert in the field of key technologies and national policies related to climate change and energy issues. She was an author of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA) report, National Assessment Report on Climate Change, and China’s national assessment report on climate change. Some of the results were adopted as technical support for national policy making, like provincial carbon emissions intensity control targets and national carbon market design.
Dr Da Zhang
Dr Da Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University.
His main research interests are the economic and environmental analyses of China’s energy and climate policies.
Songli Zhu
Songli Zhu is Associate Professor at the Energy Research Institute, China.
Songli has expertise in theory, policy and countermeasures concerning energy and its environmental consequences. She provides technical support to decision-making to China’s National Development and Reform Commission and other ministries on issues of energy and environment coordination development. Songli has devoted herself to China’s mitigation policy analysis in her almost 20-year career.
Dr Kejun Jiang
Kejun Jiang is Director of the Energy System Analysis and Market Analysis Research Centre at the Energy Research Institute (ERI), China, and visiting professor at Tsinghua University.
His research interests concern energy systems planning for China, global energy and emissions scenarios, air pollution and informing climate policy nationally and internationally. He has been a contributing lead author in the IPCC process since the special report on emissions scenarios (SRES) in 2000. He was coordinating lead author of chapter 6 on assessing transformation pathways of the fifth assessment report (AR5), and will be lead author of Chapter 3 on mitigation pathways of the upcoming sixth assessment report.
Zhangang Han
Zhangang Han received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 1997.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Systems Science, School of Management, Beijing Normal University. He is the Chairman of his department and the Director of the System Analysis Laboratory. (Read more)
Dr Ajay Mathur
Ajay Mathur is Director General of TERI – The Energy & Resources Institute, and a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change.
He was Director General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in the Government of India from 2006 until February, 2016, responsible for bringing energy efficiency into homes, offices, and factories. He previously headed the Climate Change Team of World Bank in Washington DC, and was President of Suzlon Energy Limited. Ajay has been a key Indian climate-change negotiator, and was the Indian spokesperson at the 2015 climate negotiations at Paris.
Ulka Kelkar
Ulka is Director of World Resource Institute’s (WRI) India’s Climate Program.
She is an economist with 20 years’ experience in interdisciplinary research, capacity building, and outreach on climate change. At WRI her research focuses on national climate policy, sub-national climate governance, and carbon market mechanisms.
Deepthi Swamy
Deepthi is a Lead with the Climate Program at WRI India. Her work is primarily focused on energy-economy modelling and policy analysis for supporting a clean and just energy transition for India, using a systems approach.
Prior to this, she worked with the Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in various capacities. She conducted research studies on renewable energy potential assessments, electricity sector planning, development of tools for long-term energy planning, and evaluation of policy and regulatory frameworks for achieving national wind energy targets. She has contributed to the Draft National Wind Energy Mission for the Ministry of Renewable Energy, the India Energy Security Scenarios calculator for NITI Aayog, and provided policy inputs to state- and national level government agencies, distribution companies, and regulators.
Ashwini Hingne
Ashwini is a Manager with the Climate program of WRI India.
Ashwini leads WRI’s India’s work on carbon markets. Her work focusses on areas at the intersection of climate, economics and development, which comprises topics such as Carbon Pricing and Sustainable Development linkages of climate actions.
Prof Laura Diaz Anadon
Leads EEIST Empirical Evidence for General Principles for Policy-Making
Laura is Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge Centre of Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), and a Fellow at St John’s College.
She is also a research affiliate at the Harvard Kennedy School, holds a Senior Keynes Fellowship and is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua. Laura is an expert in energy and climate policy, innovation and science policy, program evaluation, decision making under uncertainty, technological change and integrated analysis and serves on various policy roles.
Dr Cristina Peñasco
Co-Lead: EEIST Empirical Evidence for General Principles for Policy-Making and Lead for Empirical Evaluation
Christina is a University of Cambridge Lecturer in public Policy at POLIS (Department of Politics and International Studies). At Cambridge, she is also a Fellow at Queens’ College, a Centre Fellow at Centre for the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), and an associate researcher of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy.
Her research is multidisciplinary in nature, bringing together aspects of environmental economics, innovation policy and energy economics in green and energy efficiency technologies, with a focus on policy instruments enabling the transition to low-carbon economies.
Prof Jorge Viñuales
Co-Lead: EEIST Engagement with Partner Countries
Jorge is Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge.
He is the founder and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). Chairman, Compliance Committee, WHO-UNECE Protocol on Water and Health. Director-General, Latin-American Society of International Law (Sao Paulo). Member of Panel of Arbitrators (Shanghai Centre).
Dr Sergey Kolesnikov
Sergey is a Research Associate at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).
Sergey is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in science and innovation policy studies, physical sciences, and technology-based economic development. His current research explores clean energy innovation dynamics and the role of public policy in it.
Dr Roberto Pasqualino
Dr Roberto Pasqualino is a C-EENRG Fellow and a Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, working on the science-policy interface to support systems transformation towards a more just and sustainable society.
Dr Pasqualino interdisciplinary background combines extensive training in complexity science, finance, mathematics, computer sciences, dynamic systems modelling, economics and public policy.
Prof Michael Grubb
EEIST Strategy & Evidence Director, UCL
Michael is Research Director and Professor of Energy and Climate Change at University College London’s Institute for Sustainable Resources.
A former Senior Advisor to UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (the energy regulator, Ofgem). Michael also chaired UK Government’s Panel of Technical Experts on Electricity Market Reform, and he was previously Chief Economist to UK Carbon Trust, and Head of Energy and Environment at Chatham House.
Dr Yaroslav Melekh
Research Fellow
Dr Yaroslav Melekh is Research Fellow at University College London’s Institute for Sustainable Resources.
Yaroslav’s experience comprises a combination of academic, consultant and international development work. His recent posts include programme management of climate and environmental development aid portfolio in Ukraine at the Embassy of Sweden in Kyiv and Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). He dealt with energy efficiency and district heating infrastructure projects and policies for climate adaptation and nature-based solutions. As a consultant, he advised on climate finance, investments in renewables and biomass value chain development to EU, USAID, NORAD, and EBRD projects. Yaroslav’s research interests sit in access to capital, cost of capital, and policy instruments for de-risking investments in renewables in developing countries
Professor Aled Jones
Aled is the Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. He is one of the acknowledged global leaders in public-private finance related to the green economy.
Aled is currently leading a team to build a global model to explore political fragility from resource crisis. He was lead author on the seminal report on resource constraints to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2013, and is a Co-Investigator on the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), the AHRC Debating Nature’s Value network and the EU H2020 MEDEAS project.
Dr Chris Foulds
Chris is a Principal Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University.
He is Principal Investigator on the EU Energy-SHIFTS project, the EPSRC Energy PIECES project and led the EU H2020 SHAPE-ENERGY project. Chris is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, with a keen interest in how people (households or professionals) respond to interventions that target reductions in how much they consume.
Dr Sarah Royston
Sarah carries out interdisciplinary research on energy and sustainability, focusing especially on issues of policy, governance and social practice.
Dr Liliia Bilous
Liliia Bilous is a Research Fellow with the GSI and works in the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition project. Her research focuses on the management of energy resource factors of sustainable development such as energy efficiency, energy intensity, energy supply, energy independence, and environmental harmonization.
John Stenning
Lead of Environment, Cambridge Econometrics
Jon Stenning is an associate director at Cambridge Econometrics, where he leads the Environment team. He has sixteen years’ experience managing and delivering projects for a wide range of clients and presenting technical content to both technical and non-technical audiences.
His work focusses on the macroeconomic impacts of energy and climate policy, and he has worked with a range of national and international institutions seeking to better understand the potential macroeconomic and social implications of decarbonisation. His work applies a range of modelling frameworks, including the global E3ME-FTT model, and he specialises in assisting policymakers and other stakeholders in understanding key policy-relevant messages from such exercises.
Jennifer Dicks
Project Manager, Cambridge Econometrics
Jennifer Dicks is a Project Manager in CE’s environment team. She specialises in efficiently managing projects which examine the interactions between socioeconomics and energy and environmental policy, extracting policy-relevant messages from quantitative modelling and analysis, and providing written interpretation for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Michael McGovern
Michael McGovern is a Senior Economist at Cambridge Econometrics. He specialises in topics related to environmental economics, with a particular focus on the economic impacts of energy and climate policy. He has led a variety of research projects using Cambridge Econometrics’ E3ME-FTT and FRAMES models, and contributes to the development of those models. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Economics from SOAS University of London, where he won the Graduate Diploma Prize in Economics.
Pim Vercoulen
Pim Vercoulen is a Senior Economist at Cambridge Econometrics and a PhD student at the University of Exeter. His responsibilities include data processing and analysis, and maintaining and operating the E3ME model, including the suite of evolutionary technology diffusion models, collectively called FTT. Over the past years, he has developed an FTT model to simulate decision-making in the iron & steel sector and updated several of the other FTT models, most notably FTT:Power. His recent work at Cambridge Econometrics has had a particular focus on applying E3ME-FTT to investigate the socio-economic impacts of various contemporary policy questions. Of particular interest are the development of scenarios to explore net zero targets, the impacts of achieving zero carbon housing in Europe, and the impacts of stranded fossil fuel assets. Future work will involve developing diffusion models to simulate decision-making in the agriculture sector and the hydrogen supply sector, to expand our analytical power and explore additional policy relevant questions.
Andrzej Błachowicz
Andrzej Błachowicz is Managing Director of Climate Strategies. Andrzej has been involved in climate change and energy policy issues since 2001.
He served as a Cabinet Member and advisor on climate change to the Polish Minister of Environment during the Polish EU Presidency. Andrzej’s previous posts included managing international cooperation at the Polish National Centre for Emission Management (KASHUE-KOBiZE). Andrzej has been one of Poland’s leading experts during the negotiations of the EU climate and energy package, as well as in the UNFCCC process.
Julie-Anne Hogbin
Julie-Anne is the Programme and Communication Manager at Climate Strategies. She has extensive experience successfully delivering impactful projects across the commercial, public, academic and NGO sectors.
Previous roles include Project Manager for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she was involved in the delivery of air quality and clean energy projects. Before that, she worked as a Centre Manager at the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at the University of Surrey and as a Project and Institute Manager at the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University.
Brynn Hansen
Brynn supports EEIST communications and manages the project’s social media channels. She joined Climate Strategies in 2023 as a Communications and Members Associate.
Brynn previously worked in the Communications and Digital Office of the International Energy Agency, where she assisted with report promotion, graphic design, and partnership development. She also has experience as an editorial illustrator, having worked with the Columbia Political Review and various NGOs to produce original artwork.