Meet the team

Sam Fankhauser leads the CCG Economics and Policy Workstream. He is Professor of Climate Change Economics and Policy at the University of Oxford, where he is affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the School of Geography and the Environment. He is also Research Director of Oxford Net Zero and a Fellow of Reuben College. Outside academia, Sam is a Non-Executive Director of CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, and an Associate Director at economics consultancy Vivid Economics. He was an inaugural member of the UK Committee on Climate Change, on which he served from… [Read more]

Philipp is a co-lead of the Economics and Policy research workstream in CCG, focusing on potential green high-impact economic opportunities for low-income countries (e.g. power-to-X, servitisation approaches, energy for productive use) as well as the business models and policy mixes to enable these opportunities. Philipp is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Chair of Operations Management at RWTH Aachen University, and an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography at Oxford. He has a decade of experience in the energy sector of emerging and industrialised economies, working for the University of Oxford as well as for McKinsey & Company… [Read more]

Julia Tomei leads the CCG Policies for CCG Investment Workstream.  She is a Lecturer in Energy, Resources and Development at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. Her research advances understandings of the human and political dimensions of energy and resource use in developing countries. Her work engages with research users from policy, academia, and industry and examines the practical and policy mechanisms that can advance sustainable development. She draws on a range of social science theories and methods in her research and regards her experience and outlook as truly interdisciplinary. She has published more than 20 papers in a range… [Read more]

Holger Dalkmann advises CCG on their national and international partnership strategy as well as leading the research on electrifying transport. He has over twenty-five years of experience working in the field of transport, cities, sustainability, and climate change. He is founder and CEO of his own business (Sustain 2030) based in Berlin, Germany. He operates as an independent consultant providing strategic and technical advice for a variety of organizations like the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Volvo Research Foundation (VREF), UNCRD, and Agora Verkehrswende. For FCDO, he works as a Senior Advisor… [Read more]

Alex Money leads the CCG Investment Pipelines Workstream. He is the founding MD of an early stage company focused on earth observation, and he concurrently directs an academic research programme at the University of Oxford. He is also an undergraduate tutor in geography at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He has around 25 years of practitioner experience in investment and industry. His previous data venture was backed by Oxford’s Said Business School seed fund and venture capital. Prior to academia, he co-founded a capital markets ESG advisory firm, working with companies from £100 million to £100 billion by market value. He spent… [Read more]

Carla is a postgraduate researcher in the Geography & Environment Department at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on energy modelling tools to support evidence-based policymaking. In 2021, she was the co-director of the “Summer School of Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development” organized virtually with ICTP Centre and other International Organizations. She holds a double-degree Master of Science from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, as part of the EIT InnoEnergy Master School. Before starting her postgraduate studies, she obtained her Bachelor in Energy Engineering from the University of Bologna. During the… [Read more]

Satheesh Krishnamurthy is the CCG Open Education Lead. He has over 20 years’ research experience in renewable energy within academia and industry. He specializes in the laser and plasma processing of renewable energy materials and chemical vapour deposition of semiconductor nanomaterials. His research is widely published with over 80 publications in scientific journals and book chapters, some with impact factor of 8 to 35, and over 7000 citations. He is committed to the practical application and sustainability of research through commercialization of renewable energy technologies and strengthening the capacity of academics and entrepreneurs in developing countries. Professor Krishnamurthy has successfully… [Read more]

Aruna Sivakumar is a co-investigator at CCG. She is a senior lecturer in consumer behaviour and urban systems at the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London. She is also director of the Urban Systems Lab at Imperial and leads several smart city and systems modelling initiatives. As PI, she has attracted funding worth over £2m over the last 7 years from national and international sources such as EPSRC, ESRC, Shell Inc in the UK, and SMRT Singapore. Over a career spanning 15+ years Aruna has published more than 40 peer reviewed journal papers, made over 100 conference presentations, and… [Read more]

A former Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action and Executive Director of EarthAction, Nick has long experience of organizing innovative global political networks. He worked as a consultant on political engagement for the United Nations and has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio and other celebrities on climate campaigns. Nick was co-recipient of the first Indira Gandhi Prize, presented by the President of India for his work on convening a group of heads of government to help end the Cold War called the Six Nation Peace Initiative. He is a citizen of Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa. [Read more]

Cameron Hepburn is the Director of 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. 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 has served in an editorial capacity for Environmental Research Letters, the European Economic Review, and has served as the managing editor of the Oxford Review… [Read more]