Jimmy is the Lead, Saïd Business School–Smith School, Initiatives where he is engaged with creating new programmes. His research is on the data structures of climate and financial accounting, in order to reconcile them for the improvement of capital deployment into 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 is a fellow at Chapter Zero and 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 and DPhil from the University of Oxford.