Directorate

Mark Howells is the CCG Programme Director. He  is jointly appointed at Loughborough University and Imperial College, London. Previously at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden he set up their prestigious Energy Systems Analysis programme. He led the development of some of the world's premier open source energy, resource, and spatial electrification planning tools; published in several Nature Journals; coordinated the European Commission's think tank for Energy; is regularly used by the United Nations as a science-policy expert; and is a key contributor to UNDESA's 'Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development Policies' initiative. His work has contributed to efforts for… [Read more]

Stephanie Hirmer is an Associate Professor of Climate Compatible Growth within the Energy and Power Group at the University of Oxford, focusing on integrating community perspectives into energy decision-making processes. She currently holds the position of Interim Research Director at CCG, where she leads the Advanced GIS Modelling of Integrated Systems Analysis. Prof. Hirmer co-founded Rural Senses Ltd., a social enterprise that emerged from her PhD research in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Sustainable Development. This enterprise specialises in AI-enhanced data analysis and user-centric data collection, assisting project developers in efficiently and accurately addressing… [Read more]