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Sandile Mtetwa

Country Partnerships Co-ordinator

CCG

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Sandile supports the development of sustainable energy and transportation solutions, building equitable partnerships and strategies across low- and middle-income countries in the Global South. As Country Partnerships Coordinator, she strengthens research-to-policy collaboration and fosters inclusive knowledge exchange. She also leads engagement with the Kenya CCG network. Sandile holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, with a strong background in developing novel energy production and storage systems. She is a researcher and advocate for equitable and inclusive energy and climate futures, particularly for marginalised communities in Zimbabwe. [Read more]

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Tom is a Senior Research Software Engineer in the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, with interests in modelling infrastructure systems, spatial networks, spatial data analysis and visualisation. He leads the technical development of the Global Resilience Index (GRI) Risk Viewer at https://global.infrastructureresilience.org and the open-source infrastructure climate risk analysis framework Open-GIRA at https://github.com/nismod/open-gira funded by CCG and other projects. Tom is part of the Sector Interactions team with Prof Jim Hall. [Read more]

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Dr Giulia Ragosa

Research Fellow

UCL

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Giulia Ragosa is a Research Fellow at University College London (UCL), specialising in the political economy of climate policy, with a focus on climate finance, electricity system regulation, and renewable energy policy across Africa and Asia. Giulia earned her PhD at UCL’s Institute of Sustainable Resources under the supervision of Prof. Jim Watson and Prof. Michael Grubb. Her doctoral research examined the political economy of electricity market reforms in the UK, Italy, and California, investigating how these reforms facilitated the integration of high shares of renewable energy into power systems and the political economy dynamics characterising this process. Over her… [Read more]

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Bethan Adams

Research Associate

Smith School of Enterprise

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Bethan is a Research Assistant in Climate Compatible Growth at the Smith School of Enterprise, University of Oxford. Her background is in corporate sustainability action, entrepreneurship, and innovative finance for sustainable development. Working most recently in the water/WASH research space, Bethan has conducted research projects on the concept of sustainability in water project financing and implementation; and on valuation of ecosystem services. Her work at CCG will focus on funding and financing approaches for promoting capacity building and climate entrepreneurship, as key enablers of climate-compatible growth. She will also bring her experience in partnership and impact roles to support project… [Read more]

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Jeeno Soa George 

Research Associate in Climate Land Energy Water Modelling 

School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University 

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Jeeno enjoys exploring the applications of advanced tools and models for data-driven climate solutions.   After completing a postgraduate in City Planning from Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, she worked in consulting for a few years before enrolling in the PhD programme at the same university.  Her doctoral research focused on the risks of building on floodplains and on standardizing an approach to identify locations for nature-based solutions in cities, specifically examining road networks and stream channels.  Following her doctoral research, she worked with a civic tech start-up in India to strengthen the data… [Read more]

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Ginny Ip

Research Consultant

CCG

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Ginny is a Research Consultant based at Imperial, working with Vivien Foster on our climate finance track. [Read more]

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Francesco Gardumi

Principal Investigator

KTH

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Francesco is the KTH lead for our Sector Interaction work, focussing on CLEWs. His main expertise and interest lies in the model-based assessment of development pathways and strategies for the energy, water and land use sectors of developed and developing countries, at national and regional scale. Through his experience as Scientific Manager of the EC-funded REEEM project, member of the Scientific Committee of the energymodellingplatform.eu and participation in other European projects, he has worked in the development, application and linking of several multi-sectoral models for analysing the impacts of the EU decarbonisation transition. He has particular interest in the use… [Read more]

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Fynn Kiley

Research Assistant

CCG

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Fynn is a research assistant focussing on energy systems modelling using the OSeMOSYS and MAED tools. He is Model Curator for MAED which involves delivering training at our EMP events, building and maintaining the MAED database, and developing training material. Fynn is also Country Coach for the Sierra Leone project, guiding staff from key national institutions (Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Finance, University of Sierra Leone) through the Data-to-Deal process. This involved spending three months in Freetown, codeveloping an OSeMOSYS model with the Ministry of Energy. Fynn holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London and a BSc… [Read more]

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Camilla Lo Giudice

PhD Candidate

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

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Camilla is a PhD candidate at the Energy Department of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, specializing in energy systems modelling. Her research focuses on enhancing the CLEWs framework, which addresses the intricate interconnections between climate, land, energy, and water systems. She holds a master's degree in Energy for Development from Politecnico di Milano, where her passion for energy modelling began. During her studies, she explored various energy models, including Calliope, Hypatia, and OSeMOSYS, culminating in a master's thesis on near-optimal solutions for decarbonizing the Italian energy sector. She is passionate about teaching and is actively engaged in capacity-building… [Read more]

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Dr Chinagorom Ajike

Country Partnerships Coordinator

CCG and CGE

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Chinagorom Ajike holds a PhD in Thermal Engineering and a Masters in Public Policy (MPP). His academic and professional journey has equipped him with a strong foundation in research, cross-sector partnerships, policy formulation, stakeholder engagement, and project management. At CGE, Chinagorom will be contributing to the Climate Compatible Growth Country Partnerships Team and leading engagements with the Ghana CCG Network. Before joining CGE, Chinagorom was a Research Fellow at the Oxford SDG Impact Lab, focusing on initiatives aimed at tackling global sustainability challenges. His experience also includes roles in sub-national and national government in Nigeria, where he contributed to infrastructure… [Read more]

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