About Us – Oxford Net Zero
Oxford Net Zero is an interdisciplinary research initiative based on the University of Oxford’s fifteen years of research on climate neutrality. Our research fellows recruited from partner institutions from around the world are working to track progress, align standards and inform effective solutions in climate science, law, policy, economics, clean energy, transport, land and food systems and Greenhouse Gas Removal.
Our aim is to address the issue of how we limit the cumulative net total CO2 in the atmosphere, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, while acknowledging that it is now inevitable that more CO2 will be generated from energy, industry and land-use change than our goals allow.
Our mission is to inform effective and ambitious climate action among those setting net zero targets in institutions and governments across the globe. Oxford coordinates with other academic institutions and research hubs around the world to undertake a series of engagement exercises with publics and with key stakeholders in policy, industry and civil society/ climate action circles. We are engaging net zero committers through principles and policies, practical tools, and progress tracking.
We share our mission with the ZERO (Zero-carbon Energy Research Oxford) Institute in bringing researchers together to elevate the University of Oxford as a centre of research excellence and leadership on the zero-carbon transition.
For general enquiries, contact netzero@ouce.ox.ac.uk
For media enquiries, contact george.hope@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Our DIRECTors
PROF MYLES ALLEN
DIRECTOR, OXFORD NET ZERO
PROF Sam Fankhauser
RESEARCH DIRECTOR, OXFORD NET ZERO
Dr Steve Smith
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OXFORD NET ZERO
Our CO-Investigators
Dr Aoife Brophy
LECTURER IN INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE
Dr Ben Caldecott
DIRECTOR OF THE OXFORD SUSTAINABLE FINANCE GROUP
PROF TOM HALE
PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY
PROF CAMERON HEPBURN
PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
DR RADHIKA KHOSLA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PROF MIKE KENDALL
PROFESSOR OF GEOPHYSICS
dr JAVIER LEZAUN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PROF MICHAEL OBERSTEINER
DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE INSTITUTE
Prof Lavanya Rajamani
PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
PROF ROS RICKABY
PROFESSOR OF BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
PROF NATHALIE SEDDON
PROFESSOR OF BIODIVERSITY
DR THOM WETZER
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW AND FINANCE
Our Fellows & RESEARCHERS
Dr SELAM KIDANE ABEBE
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN NET ZERO LAW
Kaya Axelsson
POLICY ENGAGEMENT FELLOW | ENGAGEMENT TEAM LEAD
DR CONOR HICKEY
RESEARCH FELLOW IN SCENARIOS AND BUSINESS MODELS FOR THE TRANSITION TO NET ZERO
Camilla Hyslop
RESEARCHER | DATA CO-LEAD, NET ZERO TRACKER
STUART JENKINS
RESEARCHER IN PHYSICAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUPPLY-SIDE MITIGATION POLICY
INJY JOHNSTONE
RESEARCHER IN NET-ZERO ALIGNED OFFSETTING
Dr Tom Kettlety
RESEARCH FELLOW IN GEOLOGICAL CARBON STORAGE
DR DONGHYUN LEE
RESEARCHER
NATASHA LUTZ
RESEARCHER | DATA CO-LEAD, NET ZERO TRACKER
FULVIA MAROTTA
RESEARCHER
alexis mcgivern
NET ZERO STANDARDS MANAGER
DR SARA NAWAZ
RESEARCH FELLOW IN GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY OF OCEAN CARBON STORAGE
DR Jessica Omukuti
RESEARCH FELLOW IN INCLUSIVE NET ZERO
DR EMILIEN RAVIGNÉ
RESEARCHER
DR ALINE SOTERRONI
RESEARCH FELLOW IN NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
DR SUGANDHA SRIVASTAV
RESEARCHER
DR JOSE MARIA VALENZUELA
RESEARCH FELLOW IN GOVERNANCE AND STANDARDS FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY
TRISTRAM WALSH
RESEARCHER
jessica zionts
RESEARCHER
Our SENIOR Associates
DR ABRAR CHAUDHURY
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
prof doyne farmer
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | OXFORD MARTIN SCHOOL
DR STEVE HATFIELD-DODDS
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
DR MARY johnstone louis
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
TIM KRUGER
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | ORIGEN
CHARMIAN LOVE
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
DR NICOLA RANGER
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
PROF Juliane Reinecke
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
MARTYN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
DR GIREESH SHRIMALI
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | OXFORD SUSTAINABLE FINANCE GROUP
PROF CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Our Associates
DAN BARLOW
ASSOCIATE | BSI
mirte boot
ASSOCIATE
DR EMILY COX
ASSOCIATE | CO2RE
KATE CULLEN
ASSOCIATE
EMILY FAINT
ASSOCIATE | BSI
jimmy jia
ASSOCIATE | SMITH SCHOOL OF ENTERPRISE AND ENVIRONMENT
IEVGENIIA KOPYTSIA
ASSOCIATE
DR FRANCOIS LAFOND
ASSOCIATE
TOM MAIDMENT
ASSOCIATE | HILTON FOODS
ELI MITCHELL-LARSON
ASSOCIATE | CARBON GAP
INGRID SUNDVOR
ASSOCIATE
Our PROGRAMME Team
Our programme team ensures the smooth day-to-day delivery of the programme and associated communications.
CATH IBBOTSON
PROGRAMME MANAGER
GEORGE HOPE
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
HEATHER WALLER
ADMINISTRATOR AND PA TO PROF MYLES ALLEN
Our collaborators & funders:




















PROF MYLES ALLEN
DIRECTOR, OXFORD NET ZERO
Myles Allen is Professor of Geosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics, University of Oxford. He served on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its 3rd, 4th and 5thassessments, and was a Coordinating Lead Author for its special report on ‘the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’.
He is the Director of Oxford Net Zero, the University of Oxford’s interdisciplinary research initiative on net zero, and founded the Climate Prediction project, the world’s largest climate modelling experiment. Myles’ research concentrates on how human and natural influences contribute to observed climate change, as well as the risks of extreme weather and quantifying their implications for long-range climate forecasts.
As well as developing statistical methods to quantify the human influence on climate and first observing that cumulative emissions of CO2 largely determine global mean surface warming, Myles is actively working on innovative approaches to incentivise carbon capture and storage.


PROF Sam Fankhauser
RESEARCH DIRECTOR, OXFORD NET ZERO
Sam is Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the School of Geography and the Environment. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, which he directed before joining Oxford Net Zero. Sam’s academic interests are in the policy interventions and governance arrangements needed for a smooth transition to net zero. Outside academia, he is an Associate Director at economics consultancy Vivid Economics. Earlier in his career, 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.


DR RADHIKA KHOSLA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Dr Radhika Khosla is the Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development and Research Fellow at Somerville College; and an Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, School of Geography and the Environment, at the University of Oxford. She works on examining the productive tensions between urban transitions, energy services consumption and climate change, with a focus on developing country cities.
Radhika is the Principal Investigator of the Oxford Martin School’s interdisciplinary and multi-country programme on the Future of Cooling. Alongside she leads complementary research projects on urban transitions and space cooling consumption (focussing on India), and on cold-chains. She also leads the climate change research under DFID’s India-UK Global Partnership Programme on Development, which includes co-directing an executive education programme on Leadership in a Climate Emergency for business leaders. She is a contributing author to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and lead author of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report (2020).
Her other academic affiliations are at University of Pennsylvania, and the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Radhika serves on government policy committees, and boards of journals and book presses.
The two sets of interrelated questions underlie her research priorities. First, how does consumption of energy-related services change as cities urbanize? What are the socio-technical drivers, systems and institutional structures that shape (and can reconfigure) energy and carbon emission pathways? Second, what forms of governance and political rationalities characterize the varied urban responses to climate change in rapidly developing cities, given their (often competing) objectives to provide urban services? Her broader interdisciplinary research examines how cities in transition manage the tensions of meeting growing energy needs for development while protecting the local and global environment.
Previously, she has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, and Staff Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. At the latter, she helped set up the organization’s work on clean energy and climate change in India and led research and implementation on building energy policies in Indian states.
Radhika holds a PhD in the Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate and master’s degrees in Physics from the University of Oxford.


PROF CAMERON HEPBURN
PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Cameron Hepburn is the Director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment and 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, a Fellow at New College, Oxford, and a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics.
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 is on the editorial board of Environmental Research Letters and is the managing editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Cameron’s research is often referred to in the printed press, and he has been interviewed on television and radio in many countries. Cameron provides advice on energy and climate policy to government ministers (e.g. China, India, UK and Australia) and international institutions (e.g. OECD, UN organisations) around the world.


PROF NATHALIE SEDDON
PROFESSOR OF BIODIVERSITY
Nathalie Seddon is Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. She has broad interests in understanding the origins and maintenance of biodiversity and its relationship with global change. Nathalie trained as an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Cambridge and has over 20 years of field experience in tropical forests. Her research now focusses on determining the ecological and socioeconomic effectiveness of nature-based solutions to societal challenges, and how best to increase the influence of robust biodiversity and ecosystem science on the design and implementation of climate and development policy.
In 2017, she founded the Nature-based Solutions Initiative (www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org), a programme of interdisciplinary research, policy advice, and education aimed at bringing the equitable protection of nature to the centre of the sustainable development agenda.
She is a Senior Associate of the International Institute for Environment and Development and a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Martin School.


PROF MIKE KENDALL
PROFESSOR OF GEOPHYSICS
Mike Kendall is Professor of Geophysics Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. Mike’s research interests cover pure and applied seismology, with connections to mineral physics, geodynamics and engineering. Current research concentrates on the nature of the core-mantle boundary, continental cratons, continental rifting, mid-ocean ridges, and subduction zones
Mike has led seismic field experiments in a range of geologic settings. Techniques developed to study wave propagation in the deep Earth have also been applied to his research in exploration seismology. His interests lie in microseismicity and passive seismic monitoring, rock-fracture characterization, and linked geophysics, geomechanics and fluid-flow modelling. He has managed a number of large industry-funded consortia.


Dr SteVE Smith
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OXFORD NET ZERO
Dr Steve Smith joins the Smith School from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) where he co-led the Climate Science Team for two years. He played a key role in the legislation of the Net Zero emissions target last year, and on developing the Government’s approach to greenhouse gas removal. As well as advising ministers and policy teams he oversaw several areas of climate research, including the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, the Greenhouse Gas Removal Programme co-funded with UKRI, and understanding of carbon sources and sinks on land for the UK emissions inventory.
Before joining BEIS, Steve was Head of Science at the Committee on Climate Change. There he was involved in setting the UK’s 2050 target and carbon budgets, as well as starting up the committee’s work on climate adaptation. He gained a PhD in atmospheric physics from Imperial College London after studying Physics at Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and of the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy.


dr ben caldecott
DIRECTOR OF THE OXFORD SUSTAINABLE FINANCE GROUP
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. He has authored and edited a substantial number of publications related to sustainability and is an experienced media commentator and public speaker. His expertise and expert evidence have been recognised in high profile legal cases, including in the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of England and Wales. He is a regular peer reviewer and has a number of trustee, board, and advisory panel appointments, including serving on the UK Climate Change Committee’s Adaptation Committee, DBS Bank’s Board Sustainability Committee, UK Export Finance’s Export Guarantees Advisory Council, and as a Trustee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
He has conceived and initiated a 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 (P3SA) at the University of Oxford, a global centre of learning on sustainable finance for the public and third sectors. Ben is also a Co-Director for the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery where he leads its work on finance.
Ben is Co-Head of the Secretariat for the high-level Transition Plan Taskforce established by HM Treasury in 2022. From 2019, he was seconded part-time to the UK Cabinet Office for two years to work on COP26 in Glasgow as the COP26 Strategy Advisor for Finance. He has also served on the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee, the UK Government’s Green Technical Advisory Group, and in his capacity as a Member of the UK Green Finance Taskforce, chaired its Workstream on Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Implementation.
Ben is an advisor to financial institutions across different parts of the financial system internationally, including as a Senior Advisor at Global Infrastructure Partners and by serving on Neuberger Berman’s ESG Advisory Council, Columbia Threadneedle Investments’ Responsible Investment Advisory Council, ATLAS Infrastructure Partners’ Climate Advisory Board, and Climate Impact X’s International Advisory Council.
Ben teaches and supervises a wide range of students at the University of Oxford and beyond. In addition to supervising Ph.D./D.Phil. students, he established and leads B.A., M.Sc., and M.Phil. options and electives on finance and sustainability. He is an experienced lecturer and tutor and has created and course directs a number of executive education courses at Oxford each year, including the Sustainable Finance Executive Programme. He contributes to training and capacity building across different finance professions internationally, including as the Academic Advisor to the CFA UK Certificate in Climate and Investing and as lead author of the Global Association of Risk Professional’s Sustainability and Climate Risk Certificate textbook. He has previously served as an Academic Associate at the Chartered Banker Institute and on the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ ESG Investment Working Party.
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 Stanford University and Peking University, and held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Sydney, and the University of Melbourne. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. Ben is also a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Payne Institute for Earth Resources at the Colorado School of Mines.


PROF MICHAEL OBERSTEINER
DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE INSTITUTE
Michael Obersteiner is Director of the Environmental Change Institute and joins the institute from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Obersteiner joined the IIASA Forestry Program in 1993 and has been leading and developing the ESM Program, which is currently the largest research program at IIASA with over 100 staff, since 2011. His background includes the fields of global terrestrial ecosystems and economics, having completed graduate studies both in Austria (BOKU University and Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna) and abroad (Columbia University, New York and Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk). His research experience stretches from biophysical modelling in the areas of ecosystems, forestry and agriculture to economics, finance and integrated assessment. Under his leadership several national and international organizations, including inter alia the European Commission, WWF, OECD, and other national and international institutions have received science-based policy advice using quantitative modelling techniques. He is author of over 250 scientific papers covering many disciplinary science fields.


Prof Lavanya Rajamani
PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter’s College, Oxford. She was formerly a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, where she now holds a Visiting Professorship. Lavanya serves as Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on ‘International Cooperation’ in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She has also served as Rapporteur for the International Law Association’s Committee on Legal Principles Relating to Climate Change, and as Research Director for the Hague Academy of International Law’s Centre for Studies and Research.
Lavanya’s academic work on the international climate change regime is informed by extensive practice. She has worked on and tracked the climate negotiations in different capacities, including as a negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, and legal advisor to the UN Climate Secretariat, the Danish Ministry of Climate Change and the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests. She was part of the UNFCCC core drafting and advisory team at the 2015 Paris negotiations, and, was identified by Climate Home News as one of the ‘Women to watch ahead of the UN’s 2015 Climate Summit.’ She is also involved in differing capacities, but in particular in providing the evidence base, in current and prospective climate cases before national and international courts.


DR THOM WETZER


DR JAVIER LEZAUN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Javier Lezaun is Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS).
Javier’s research lies at the intersection of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). His work explores the interplay of scientific and political change. Specifically, Javier is researching the development and governance of new technologies that might be used to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. He directs the Greenhouse Gas Removal Instruments and Policies project, focused on the international politics of large-scale carbon dioxide removal, and is part of the new H2020 project Ocean NETs, which will explore the feasibility of ocean-based interventions to tackle climate change.


prof TOM HALE
PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY
Thomas Hale is Professor of Global Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government.
Prof Thomas Hale’s research explores how we can manage transnational problems effectively and fairly. He seeks to explain how political institutions evolve – or not – to face the challenges raised by globalisation and interdependence, with a particular emphasis on environmental and economic issues. He holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, a master’s degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics, and an AB in public policy from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. A US national, Hale has studied and worked in Argentina, China and Europe. His books include Beyond Gridlock (Polity 2017), Between Interests and Law: The Politics of Transnational Commercial Disputes(Cambridge 2015), Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge 2014), and Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing when We Need It Most (Polity 2013).


PROF ROS RICKABY
PROFESSOR OF BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
Ros has pioneered an interdisciplinary blend of biology and chemistry to resolve questions of past climates, evolution, and the future of the phytoplankton. Ros leads the OceanBUG research group developing inventive ways to reconstruct oceans of the past, and to understand the adaptation of organisms to changing ocean chemistry in the past and modern perturbed world. Ros has authored over 100 papers and co-authored a book “Evolution’s Destiny: Co-evolving chemistry of the environment and life”.
She has lead 2 ERC grants, 3 NERC standard grants, a BBSRC IB-Carb, and co-Ied 9 further NERC-funded projects. Her research work towards net zero has focussed on approaches to accelerate weathering and/or manipulate ocean chemistry to sequester carbon. She co-authored a GESAMP report on proposed marine geoengineering techniques and has tackled the response of marine calcifiers to elevated alkalinity through the NERC funded GGREW project. She will co-host a Net Zero Research Fellow in Earth Sciences and contribute collaborative expertise on the geochemistry of CO2 storage.


Dr Aoife Brophy
LECTURER IN INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE
Aoife holds a joint appointment between the Saïd Business School and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She studies the role of business in contributing to system transitions for sustainable development and net-zero. Her research focuses on new business models and forms of collaboration between different organisations (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. 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.


Charmian Love
CO-FOUNDER & CHAIR AT B LAB UK
ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE, SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Charmian believes in the power of business as a force for good. She is the Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her areas of focus include the rise of profit and purpose business models, regenerative and circular economic systems and how to mobilise a ‘Movement of Movements’.


Kate Cullen
ASSOCIATE | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Kate Cullen is a PhD Student in the Energy & Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Drawing on a background in earth sciences and public policy, her research takes a data-driven approach to key questions of the global governance of climate mitigation and local operationalization of adaptation in the water sector in mountain regions. She arrives to the role of Associate following a year of research with ONZ that included co-authoring the net zero global stocktake, leading a US net zero working paper and serving on the Oxford organizing teams for the UN Race to Zero criteria consultations and UK Net Zero All-Party Parliamentary Group decarbonisation series. Kate’s current work includes co-leading an Oxford/Berkeley research group on operationalizing equity in net zero targets, among other projects. She holds an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford and a dual BA in Earth Sciences and History from Wesleyan University. Kate is a Fulbright Fellow and NSF Food-Energy-Water Nexus Fellow.



DR EMILY COX
ASSOCIATE
Emily Cox is a researcher on responsible innovation and societal engagement at CO2RE. Emily is a researcher in environmental policy and social psychology at Cardiff University and the University of Oxford. She is an expert on technologies to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, focusing on social science dimensions such as public perceptions, policy, and ethics. Her work aims to embed principles of public engagement and responsible innovation in technology development. She is currently researching public attitudes to negative emissions technologies, and has also published papers on the ethics and policy of CO2 removal, ocean-based technologies, and the social and psychological impacts of major disruptive events. She is affiliated with numerous research centres examining energy infrastructures and carbon dioxide removal, and leads a project looking at public perceptions of new renewable energy technologies. Emily is a part-time lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University, and previously taught MSc Climate Change and Energy Policy at the University of Sussex.


Kate Cullen
ASSOCIATE
Kate Cullen is a PhD Student in the Energy & Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Drawing on a background in earth sciences and public policy, her research takes a data-driven approach to key questions of the global governance of climate mitigation and local operationalization of adaptation in the water sector in mountain regions. She arrives to the role of Associate following a year of research with ONZ that included co-authoring the net zero global stocktake, leading a US net zero working paper and serving on the Oxford organizing teams for the UN Race to Zero criteria consultations and UK Net Zero All-Party Parliamentary Group decarbonisation series. Kate’s current work includes co-leading an Oxford/Berkeley research group on operationalizing equity in net zero targets, among other projects. She holds an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford and a dual BA in Earth Sciences and History from Wesleyan University. Kate is a Fulbright Fellow and NSF Food-Energy-Water Nexus Fellow.



Dr Jessica Omukuti
RESEARCH FELLOW ON INCLUSIVE NET ZERO
Jessica is a Research Fellow on Inclusive Net Zero, working with the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Together with Prof Javier Lezaun and Dr. Radhika Khosla, Jessica will lead ONZ’s research on how net zero can be made to be more inclusive to the Global South and to diverse groups within the Global South and Global North. She will lead ONZ’s engagement with stakeholders in the Global South to outline pathways to inclusive net zero strategies, policies and actions. Jessica comes to this role with extensive research and practitioner experience. Jessica has led research on climate finance, climate justice and equity climate finance and governance of climate change adaptation. She has also managed development and resilience programming in the Global South. She has previously worked with international finance institutions such as the Green Climate Fund and international NGOs such as Mercy Corps and CARE International, and has developed a regional expertise from work in Sub-Saharan Africa. Jessica has a PhD in climate justice and equity in climate finance from the University of Reading (2020). She has also been appointed as the Oxford Net Zero Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford.


Kaya Axelsson
POLICY ENGAGEMENT FELLOW | ENGAGEMENT TEAM LEAD
Kaya Axelsson is the jointly appointed Net Zero Policy Engagement Fellow, working with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the Environmental Change Institute to support the practical application of net zero research insights. Kaya leads a team of researchers to aggregate and clearly communicate resources for defining and achieving net zero and host regular engagement events with the business and policy community. Kaya comes to this position from her post as the Vice-President at the Oxford Student Union where she helped to the University of Oxford develop its own sustainability strategy, including outlining a pathway to net zero. Kaya consults regularly for organizations seeking to raise their ambition in response to the climate crisis. She holds an MPhil in Comparative Government from the University of Oxford, earning distinction for her thesis on unlikely political coalitions in the renewable energy transition. Kaya began working in environmental activism and political campaigns at the age of 15 and comes to this work from the perspective ‘does the planet care’.


cath ibbotson
PROGRAMME MANAGER
Cath Ibbotson is the Programme Manager for Oxford Net Zero and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the initiative.
Cath is a Chartered Engineer and comes to the University from industry where she has 15 years’ experience in the development of commercial-scale onshore wind farms. Her most recent role was as Director of a specialist independent development company, working with multi-national joint venture partners to deliver onshore wind energy projects throughout the UK. She is also a Director of a community owned onshore wind farm in the North West of England in a voluntary capacity.


Christian Schroeder de Witt
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE | BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT & PRODUCT LEAD
Christian is currently a senior DPhil student at the University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science, specialising in deep multi-agent reinforcement learning and AI applications to climate change. He holds distinguished master’s degrees in physics, as well as computer science (both University of Oxford). Before returning to Oxford for his DPhil, Christian served as Head of Engineering of one of Germany’s largest voucher and coupon eCommerce companies, where he led a team of web developers. Subsequently, he has gained work experience at a variety of high-profile work environments, including Google AI, Man AHL and the ESA Frontier Development Lab. As local policy officer of a UK political party with a strong environmental focus, Christian ideated and co-founded the Oxford Climate Policy Forum (OxCPF), a cross-party initiative of young representatives of major UK political parties working on cross-party consensus on regional climate policy baselines. A trained classical concert pianist, Christian enjoys public speaking and performing for large audiences.


Tristram Walsh
RESEARCHER
Tristram currently researches climate science at the University of Oxford, supervised by Prof Myles Allen, specialising in quantifying global warming sensitivity to anthropogenic emissions, and its implications for net zero emissions budgets – this work continues from his masters research at the University of Oxford, where he recently graduated with a double First-Class MPhys Physics. Alongside his research, Tristram holds advisory positions at Oxford Climate Policy Forum and Oxford Climate Society (OCS), following his two years of multiple-award-winning Presidency of OCS. Tristram has experience generating net zero engagement from a variety of initiatives: he co-designed, with Dr Thomas Hale, an intergenerational policy dialogue method between policy leaders, academic experts, and youth voices; he co-founded the Oxford Climate Action Plan, providing solutions to institutions’ barriers in adopting and achieving net zero plans; he hosted large-scale events translating the latest insights from the academic to public spheres, and is connecting businesses on climate by building alumnus networks. Tristram also enjoys opportunities for regular public speaking, for example giving a keynote speech at the Oxford Climate Assembly, being interviewed for leadership education sessions, and featuring on podcasts such as FutureMakers to talk about climate policy.


injy johnsTonE
RESEARCHER IN NET-ZERO ALIGNED OFFSETTING
Injy is the Net-Zero Aligned Offsetting lead within the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. She is a final stage PhD Candidate in International Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington and an Enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Her PhD research focuses on conceiving Net-Zero as a source of new legal norms and delving into their substance. Injy gained an LLM in Environmental and Energy Law as a Fulbright scholar from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She also holds an LLB (First Class Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington and a BSc in Physical Geography and Economics from the University of Otago. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia and Edinburgh Law Schools.
Injy has worked with and advised a range of public, private and third-sector entities, including the Global Center on Adaptation, UNESCO and the UN MGCY. While at New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment, she was the Project Administrator for New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Act. In 2022, she ran a project entitled ‘Net-Zero New Zealand’ to conceive Net-Zero norm development on a community level. In 2023 she was selected as part of an inaugural cohort of Early Career Scholars for an Inclusive Stocktake under the Paris Agreement.
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María Lemos González
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
María is a Colombian graduate student at the University of Oxford where she is currently completing her MSc in Environmental Change and Management. Before doing her masters, she worked for four years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia on climate change, forests and environmental governance where she followed national implementation of commitments and joined the Colombian delegation in multilateral environmental fora. She was the leading voice on climate finance for the Independent Association of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC), a grouping of eight countries in international climate negotiations. Currently, she is also an associate at Transforma, a Colombian Think Tank where she focuses on developing diplomatic strategies around COP26 to increase ambition in Latin America. She is looking forward to beginning her Master’s in Public Policy at Oxford in September 2021 and is honoured to be a member of the Oxford Net Zero’s outreach team.


DR MARY JOHNSTONE-LOUIS
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Dr. Mary Johnstone-Louis is a Senior Fellow in Management Practice at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. She is Co-Director of Oxford’s Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme, served as Founding Director of the Ownership Project at Oxford, and has worked on five continents including fieldwork in Bangladesh, South Africa, and across Latin America. She has been a World Economic Forum Global Futures Council Fellow and currently serves as Chair of the Board of B Lab UK.


HEATHER WALLER
ADMINISTRATOR and pa to prof myles allen


Sophie Littlewood
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Sophie is studying for an undergraduate Masters in Chemistry at the University of Oxford. She is interested in development economics and the intersection of media and climate action, and has written on sustainability and entrepreneurship. She was President of the Oxford University Media Society and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University’s science magazine, and is delighted to be part of Oxford Net Zero.


George Hope
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
George Hope is the Communications Manager for Oxford Net Zero and the CO2RE Hub. George is part of the core management team for Oxford Net Zero and ensures effective communication of high impact research and engagement to the programme’s key target audiences.
Prior to joining the University of Oxford, George led Imperial College London’s flagship policy engagement programme. He was responsible for managing and developing Imperial’s relationships with key stakeholders in government and the third sector on a range of science policy issues, and communicating academic research to support evidence-informed policy through events and communications. He also helped establish the comms and engagement around Imperial’s Transition to Zero Pollution initiative. He holds a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Southampton and an MA in International Relations from the University of Sussex.


DR TOM KETTLETY
RESEARCH FELLOW IN GEOLOGICAL CARBON STORAGE
Tom Kettlety is the Oxford Net Zero Research Fellow in Geological Carbon Storage, working within the Department of Earth Sciences. Tom studies earthquakes triggered by fluid injection, and methods to mitigate induced seismicity. This has involved using a range of techniques from observational seismology, geomechanical modelling, and earthquake statistics to analyse microseismic datasets from injection operations around the world.
Tom’s work has looked at fluid-fault interaction and the geologic controls of fault activation. His current research involves using seismological techniques to better quantify the state of stress and seismic hazard around developing and prospective CO2 reservoirs, leading to improved assessment of risks to longterm geologic CO2 storage. His work has lead to frequent interaction with industry and regulatory stakeholders. He completed his MSci in Physics at the University of Bristol in 2016, and his PhD in Geology at Bristol in 2020.


DR SELAM KIDANE ABEBE
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN NET ZERO LAW
Selam Kidane Abebe is a Senior Research Fellow in Net Zero Law at Oxford Net Zero. She is also a member of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. Her research focuses on net zero law, including designing legal frameworks for implementing net zero commitments and understanding the multiple layers of net zero governance under domestic and international law.
Selam has extensive experience working on multilateral environmental agreements. She led the legal and procedural negotiations of the Paris Agreement for the African Group and negotiated the rule book of the Paris Agreement. She continues to serve as the legal advisor to the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Selam is a member of the Article 15 Committee of the Paris Agreement that facilitates the implementation and promotes Parties’ compliance with the obligations of the Agreement. She is also an advisor to African constituency Board Members of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Before that, she worked for the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forest of Ethiopia as the director of the environmental law and policy department, where she led the development of environmental laws, policies, and climate strategies of the country. Selam has advised governments, international organisations, and UN agencies on climate change laws, policies and financing for the implementation of climate action.
Selam received her PhD in Law from the University of Reading as a Leverhulme Scholar in climate justice.


DR ALINE SOTERRONI
RESEARCH FELLOW ON NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
Aline Soterroni is a Research Fellow on Nature-based Solutions at ONZ. Together with Prof. Nathalie Seddon and Prof. Michael Obersteiner, she will investigate the socioeconomic and ecological outcomes of different pathways to net zero with a particular interest in understanding the value and the limits of nature-based solutions in achieving net-zero over the long term. She aims to understand the timeframes and spatial scales over which restoration, protection and sustainable management of working lands can enhance carbon stocks and reduce GHG emissions whilst supporting biodiversity, human adaptation to climate change and food security. To this end, Aline will work on the establishment of an open-source land use model, to guide societal and policy decisions towards a sustainable development.
Aline has experience with regional partial equilibrium land use modeling for quantitative climate change policy evaluation in Brazil. Her research has provided science-based results to inform local stakeholders and policymakers. Aline has a PhD in applied mathematics from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (2012). She is also a Guest Research Scholar at the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program.


tom maidment
ASSOCIATE | HILTON FOODS
Tom Maidment is Group Product Sustainability Senior Manager at Hilton Foods, leading the development of the company’s supply chain decarbonisation strategy and providing LCA expertise across the company. He studied MEng Automotive Engineering & Sustainability at the University of Warwick. In his first year he began working for Jaguar Land Rover, spending five years developing their first electric vehicle before moving into the Product Sustainability team where he developed the company’s net zero strategy. He is also Founder and Technical Director of E.Mission, a consultancy specialising in improving public understanding of the carbon footprint of food.


DR JOSE MARIA VALENZUELA
RESEARCH FELLOW ON THE GOVERNANCE AND STANDARDS OF CARBON NEUTRALITY
Jose Maria Valenzuela works on global and comparative studies on decarbonisation and energy transition with an emphasis in emerging economies. He joined InSIS as a postdoctoral researcher for the Governance and Standards for Carbon Neutrality (GASCONE) programme. He is Doctor in Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government with previous studies at El Colegio de Mexico, Tsinghua University, and the University of Chicago. Between 2011 and 2017, he worked for Mexico’s Department of Energy and WWF Mexico and consultant to UNIDO, UNEP, and the US-National Renewable Energy Lab. In 2021 he was awarded the Giandomenico Majone Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research for his research on expertise and regulation in electricity markets in Europe, China and Latin American. He is also an active member of the Oxford Scenarios Programme and the Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy.


DR CONOR HICKEY
RESEARCH FELLOW IN SCENARIOS AND BUSINESS MODELS FOR THE TRANSITION TO NET ZERO
Conor leads research under the Oxford Net Zero initiative identifying commercialisation pathways for negative emissions technologies and practices in the context of adaptive net zero mitigation scenarios. He is also a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.
Conor has previously and continues to lead projects which investigate phasing out carbon-intensive infrastructure in Asia and Europe, net-zero aligned offsetting and the climate-related risks to and environmental impact of corporations and financial institutions.
He holds a BCom and PhD in Finance. His thesis evaluated the impacts of legacy infrastructure and stranded assets on energy markets and utilities in low carbon energy systems. The methods for his doctoral work focused on integrating techno-economic energy system modelling methods into asset valuation techniques.
A list of Conor’s published work is available on Google Scholar.
For more information see Conor’s LinkedIn profile.


STUART JENKINS
RESEARCH FELLOW ON PHYSICAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUPPLY-SIDE MITIGATION POLICY
Stuart Jenkins is the Oxford Net Zero Research Fellow in physical climate change and supply-side mitigation policy, working between the Department of Physics and School of Geography. Stuart’s background includes research on the remaining carbon budget, quantifying non-CO2 contributions to recent and future climate change, and the design of novel GHG metrics for the comparison of various pollutants in terms of their physical characteristics.
More recently Stuart has developed the Carbon Takeback Obligation, a supply-side mitigation policy which requires extractors and importers of fossil fuels to recapture and store a progressively increasing fraction of the CO2 embedded within their products. He is studying how this policy could be implemented in national, regional and global climate policy. “We consider the CTBO acting as a backstop policy, requiring 100% of produced CO2 to be recaptured and geologically stored by mid-century, and creating a long-sighted investment environment where geological carbon storage capacity can grow to required levels before it is required”. Learn more about the CTBO policy here: carbontakeback.org. He is currently completing a PhD in the Dept. of Physics, having finished a Masters in Physics there in 2018.


DR SUGANDHA SRIVASTAV
ASSOCIATE
Sugandha is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
She is an affiliate of the Economics Department, an Early Career Research Fellow at Saïd Business School and a researcher for the Climate Compatible Growth Programme, where she leads the workstream on Economic Policy in low- and middle-income countries. Sugandha was awarded the Distinguished CESifo affiliate award for her work on bringing early-stage green technologies to market.
Sugandha has worked as an environmental and energy economist at Vivid Economics and ICRIER advising governments, private firms, and international organisations on a broad range of issues related to climate, energy, innovation, and natural resource management. She holds a DPhil in Environmental Economics from Oxford, and an MSc in Economics from LSE.


DR FRANCOIS LAFOND
ASSOCIATE
François is a lead researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and deputy director of the Complexity Economics group. His main areas of research are in the economics of innovation and productivity, environmental economics, networks and complex systems, applied econometrics and forecasting. His current research in environmental economics focuses on understanding the impact of the net-zero transition on aggregate productivity.


FULVIA MAROTTA
ASSOCIATE
Fulvia Marotta is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford, with a PhD in Economics and a background in Statistics. Her research interests lie at the intersection of time series climate econometrics, applied macroeconomics, and environmental economics.
Fulvia’s work revolves around the use of time series and macro-econometric methods to understand how climate change impacts economies and how countries can become more resilient to compound shocks. Her research focuses on the role of fiscal policy in building long-term resilience and sustainable development, and how green fiscal policy can be integrated with immediate crisis responses to fortify a country’s resilience. Fulvia has projects investigating the effect of climate change on energy and commodity prices, the optimal combination of environmental policy and green innovation for a net-zero economy, and the implications of policy-induced shifts in green innovation on firms and labour productivity.


mia clement
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Mia is a current second year geography undergrad at Christ Church college, University of Oxford. Mia is interested in the importance of communications in climate activism and the significance of representation and a just transition for all.
Mia also works with both environmental university societies and broader nature societies to understand how accessible media and information is key in improving individual agency.
Mia wants to continue researching the relevance of nature based solutions for biodiversity net gain and the implications for climate mitigation once finishing her degree.


DR SARA NAWAZ
RESEARCH FELLOW IN GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY OF OCEAN CARBON STORAGE
Sara Nawaz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society working on OceanNETs, a project examining the feasibility of ocean-based negative emissions technologies (NETs) for addressing climate change. Sara’s work seeks to incorporate public perspectives and principles of responsible innovation into the design and governance of these technologies. She is also affiliated with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions where she contributes to the project Solid Carbon, which also investigates ocean-based NETs.
Sara completed her PhD in August 2021 at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, at the University of British Columbia (Canada), where she studied social dimensions of emerging gene editing, gene drive, and synthetic biology technologies for agriculture. Prior to her PhD, Sara worked as a researcher at the World Resources Institute and a consultant at Environmental Resources Management. She holds an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford University and a BA in economics from Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, U.S.).


eli mitchell-larson
ASSOCIATE | CARBON GAP
Eli Mitchell-Larson is a climate researcher and advocate based at the University of Oxford. As an Associate at Oxford Net Zero, his research focuses on scaling technologies and policies that can deliver global net zero emissions through equitable, responsible, and durable carbon removal. At Oxford his recent work has focused on defining net-zero aligned carbon offsetting and developing the Carbon Takeback Obligation policy concept. He led the launch at COP26 of Carbon Gap, a new climate not-for-profit dedicated to making Europe a leader in scaling the full spectrum of carbon removal techniques. Previously, he worked as an advisor to Fortune 500 companies on carbon removal procurement (Carbon Direct), an impact investor (New Island Capital) and off-grid solar entrepreneur (SunFarmer). He received his B.S. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale, and MSc and MBA from the University of Oxford. His PhD is supervised by Professor Myles Allen.


DR ABRAR CHAUDHURY
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | SAïD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Dr Abrar Chaudhury holds a research faculty post at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and a multi-year British Academy Fellowship. He is affiliated with Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and is a Fellow of Green Templeton College. Abrar’s research interests span challenges at the intersection of environmental management, climate leadership, sustainable development, climate finance and corporate purpose. He is a global professional with over 20 years’ experience in technology, consulting and research contexts across multiple continents and sectors. He works closely with governments, funders, private sector and research institutions to translate research into practice.
Under the prestigious British Academy Fellowship, Abrar is investigating the ways in which dedicated climate funding, such as the Green Climate Fund, and emerging technologies shape implementation and diffusion of climate action in emerging economies. He was on the core research team for a pioneering Oxford collaboration with EY Global, to understand how and why C-Suite and Boards from large global MNCs are again focused on corporate ‘purpose’ in a turbulent global economy.
Abrar is an experienced teacher and programme director leading Oxford’s Custom Education portfolio in Middle East and contributing to programmes on the MBA, EMBA and Executive Education.
Abrar holds a Doctorate in Environmental Change and Management (awarded best dissertation at 2017 Academy of Management, USA), and MBA and an MSc in Environmental Management with Distinction all from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant. Prior to Oxford, Abrar was a partner in a leading accounting firm in Pakistan.


ALEXIS MCGIVERN
NET ZERO STANDARDS MANAGER
Alexis McGivern is the Net Zero Standards Manager at Oxford Net Zero. She brings a policy background forged during her time at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Gallifrey Foundation, working on issues of plastic pollution. She created Plastic Free Campus, a programme to support schools to go plastic-free, and established partnerships with UN agencies to develop two educational comic books on plastic pollution, which have since been translated into eight languages.
Alexis was previously Education Director of the School of Climate Change, an eight-week course that covers the basics of climate science from the policy and legal challenges of climate change all the way through to the range of potential solutions. This course had over 2,000 participants from around the world during her tenure. She also co-founded 26,000 Climate Conversations, an initiative to encourage meaningful conversations about climate outside of the climate echo chamber and encourage grassroots change from a wider range of stakeholders.
She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews and an MSc/MPhil in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford. She is currently an MBA Candidate at the Saïd Business School as a Pershing Square scholar.


SASKIA STRAUB
RESEARCH ASSISTANT ON NET ZERO BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Saskia Straub is the Research Assistant for Net Zero Business Solutions at Oxford Net Zero. Coming from an interdisciplinary environmental background, she strives to use systems thinking to accelerate ambitious decarbonisation in the private and public sectors, through her work and research. Previously Saskia worked as a Research Assistant for the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) at LSE’s Grantham Institute for Climate Change where she determined the compliance of firms with the Paris Climate Agreement.
As the elected Student Union Environment and Ethics Officer of the LSE, Saskia also represented student opinion on the Sustainability Advisory Group, chaired by Lord Nicolas Stern. In this role, she was fundamental in contributing to decisions like LSE becoming the first carbon neutral university. As a member of the EY Future Leaders Board she also advised major corporations and high-level UK policymakers on how to create synergies to scale up environmental goals in the lead-up to COP26.
Saskia holds a BSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science for which she received a First Class Honours. Her dissertation on the oil and gas industry’s climate change discourse between 2010-2019 was nominated for the Royal Geographic Society Climate Change Research Prize. She is currently an MSc+MPhil student in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford.


dr steve hatfield-dodds
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | EY PORT JACKSON PARTNERS
Steve has a distinguished track record of working at the intersection of sustainability research, public policy and business strategy, including a senior executive roles in government, research and business.
Steve is an honorary Professor of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU), and an expert member of the UN International Resource Panel. He is an honorary Associate at Oxford Net Zero and the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, and the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at ANU. He is a member of the leadership team of the EY Net Zero Centre and consultant with EY Port Jackson Partners, a leading business strategy firm.
Steve brings deep expertise and experience in the design and assessment of climate and sustainability policies and scenarios. Specific expertise includes climate change and sustainability policy, environmental and ecological economics, integrated modelling and assessment, adaptive governance, and the science-policy nexus.
Steve’s previous roles have included Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), Chief Coordinating Scientist for integration science and public policy at CSIRO (Australia’s national science agency), and senior leadership and policy roles in Australian Government agencies including the Treasury and departments of Agriculture, Climate Change, Energy and Resources, Environment, and Industry.
Steve holds a PhD in Economics from the ANU, and has published more than 125 papers and reports, including articles in Nature, Science, Agricultural Systems, Ecological Economics, and Ecology and Society.


tIM KRUGER
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | ORIGEN
Founder and Chief Scientist, Origen
Co-founder, DryGro
Tim ran the Oxford Geoengineering Programme at the Oxford Martin School between 2010 and 2022. This multidisciplinary initiative assessed the technical, social and ethical issues associated with the full range of proposed Greenhouse Gas Removal and Solar Radiation Management techniques. He is a co-author of The Oxford Principles (Rayner et al., 2013) which proposed a governance framework for geoengineering research.
He is involved in two start-ups – Origen, which is developing a technology to decarbonise lime production and remove carbon dioxide from the air – and DryGro, which is developing technology to grow high-protein crops in arid environments using a fraction of the water required by conventional agriculture.


DAN BARLOW
ASSOCIATE | BSI
Daniel Barlow is Head of Innovation Policy at BSI – the UK’s National Standards Body – and founded Our 2050 World. Our 2050 World aims to accelerate net zero action through standards and is a collaboration between the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the UN Race to Zero campaign and the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub.
In 2022 ISO published ISO Net Zero Guidelines which were sponsorship by Our 2050 World. Daniel’s interests are around purposeful transformation and net zero. Prior roles include trade strategy in the UK Government’s Department for International Trade and operations leadership at Rolls-Royce.


EMILY FAINT
ASSOCIATE | BSI
Emily Faint is the Net Zero Policy Manager at the British Standards Institution (BSI) and the Policy and Engagement Lead for the Our 2050 World collaboration. Emily manages the collaboration between the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the UN Race to Zero campaign and the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub, convened by BSI.
Emily was a lead facilitator of the ISO Net Zero Guidelines International Workshop Agreement process and a contributing author to the UNFCCC Climate Champions Pivot Point report. Her interests are focused on net zero governance and the role of standards in accelerating the transition from voluntary to regulated action on net zero. Before joining BSI, Emily worked at the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as a Senior Policy Advisor on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy and governance.


DR GIREESH SHRIMALI
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | OXFORD SUSTAINABLE FINANCE GROUP
Gireesh Shrimali is the Head of Transition Finance Research at Oxford University. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Stanford University and a Director at Climate Policy Initiative. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University as well as the Indian School of Business. His research is on the catalytic role of finance in getting to the 2C climate target. He also focuses on ESG issues, such as climate risk and net zero transitions. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, an MS from the University of Minnesota, and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology. Prior to his academic career, he has over nine years of industry experience.


DR NICOLA RANGER
SENIOR ASSOCIATE


camilla hyslop
ASSOCIATE | NET ZERO TRACKER DATA LEAD


mirte boot
ASSOCIATE


Jessica zionts
RESEARCHER
Jess Zionts is a DPhil student in the Environmental Change Institute working with Professor Myles Allen and external partners at the World Resources Institute to develop mitigation strategies for the UK land sector, with a specific focus on the beef industry. This is building on her previous work at Oxford as an MSc student in the Environmental Change and Management programme, where Jess wrote her dissertation with Professor Allen on the policy implications of applying flow-based greenhouse gas metrics to Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement. Jess’ DPhil research focuses on the application of novel emissions and land-use accounting metrics in the development of net-zero pathways to incentivise decisions that help feed the world without destroying it.
Between the MSc and DPhil, Jess worked at the World Resources Institute on the Food and Climate Programmes. With the Food Programme, Jess contributed to various reports on land-sector mitigation strategies, including a ‘climate neutral’ plan for the Danish land sector, and an analysis of the impact of increased demand for wood on land use and climate. In the Climate Programme, Jess was a member of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Secretariat, contributing to the Corporate Land Sector and Removals Guidance. Jess was the lead author for the chapters on agricultural emissions, land use change, and data collection and quality.
In addition to the MSc, Jess holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.


jimmy jia
ASSOCIATE | SMITH SCHOOL OF ENTERPRISE AND ENVIRONMENT
Jimmy is a DPhil Candidate studying the metric systems of climate and finance in order to improve decision making of capital deployment for investing in climate-resilient infrastructure. His interest is in tracking the flow of energy and carbon through financial transactions and seeing how they accumulate into assets and liabilities on the balance sheet. He is focused on capital intensive sectors, such as water and power, to help understand the value of assets towards achieving climate goals.
He sits on the board of the Center for Sustainable Energy, a San Diego-based non-profit that administers electric vehicle and solar programs across the United States. He also is the ESG Venture Partner at PiLabs, Europe’s largest and most active PropTech VC company. He received his BS and MS in Material Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Oxford.


PROF DOYNE FARMER
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | OXFORD MARTIN SCHOOL
Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
His current research is in economics, including agent-based modeling, financial instability and technological progress. He was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative automated trading firm that was sold UBS in 2006. His past research includes complex systems, dynamical systems theory, time series analysis and theoretical biology.
During the 1980s he was an Oppenheimer Fellow and the founder of the Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While a graduate student in the 1970s he built the first wearable digital computer, which was successfully used to predict the game of roulette.


INGRID SUNDVOR
ASSOCIATE
Ingrid Udd Sundvor is the Co-Founder and Director of Carbon Balance Initiative, a project born in Oxford in 2022 from conversations between Myles Allen, Mirte Boot, Stuart Jenkins and Ingrid. Carbon Balance Initiative focuses on increasing awareness and commitments for durable/geological net zero and producer responsibility on the fossil fuel industry (therein Carbon Takeback Obligation). At Oxford, her research has focused on cross-sector alliance building for Carbon Takeback Obligation in Norway and net-zero investment portfolios for development finance institutions (with Sam Fankhauser). Previously, Ingrid has worked as a CEO of a global educational not-for-profit start-up, as a researcher on the interconnections between climate scepticism, right-wing populism and the future of climate policy, and spent years in environmental activism in Norway. Ingrid holds a BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from King’s College London and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford.


prof Juliane Reinecke
SENIOR ASSOCIATE | SAïD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Juliane Reinecke is Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Research Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, from where she received her PhD. Her research focuses on mechanisms for achieving sustainable futures in organisations and in global value chains, such as through transnational multi-stakeholder governance, collective action, and social movements. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Research Policy, among others. Juliane’s research has been recognised with multiple awards from the Academy of Management and other professional organisations. She serves as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal and as a trustee of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). Juliane.Reinecke@sbs.ox.ac.uk

