Meet the team

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]

Ariane Millot is currently a Research Associate at Imperial College London, where she supports the Research Workstream 3 on System Design within the Climate Compatible Growth programme. She is also involved in projects related to Kenya and Zambia. Her research interests include energy system modelling and the economic and social impacts of the energy transition. She holds a PhD in energy modelling from Mines Paris – PSL, where she developed pathways for the French energy transition with a bottom-up optimization model (TIMES). She also worked at the International Energy Agency on the buildings sector for the World Energy Outlook, where… [Read more]

James is a research fellow in transport–energy systems in the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford. His research looks at the challenges and opportunities of integrating sustainable transport systems with high-renewables electricity systems, to accelerate transport–energy decarbonization pathways in different contexts around the world. James is a Chartered Engineer, having worked as a technical advisor to the UK Government on low-carbon energy systems, and as a manufacturing engineer in the aerospace and nuclear industries. [Read more]

Meron Tesfamichael is co-lead of the policies and investment research workstream within CCG. Meron is a senior research fellow and lecturer of political economy at the Department of Science, Engineering, Technology and Public Policy (STEaPP) at the University College London. Her work focuses on the political economy, social feasibility and just transition implications of CCG policies and initiatives. [Read more]

Alycia Leonard is a postdoctoral researcher in the Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford. She works on the CCG "Advancing GIS Modelling of Integrated Systems Analysis" workstream (WS3a), where she presently focuses on subnational energy systems planning as it relates to social and economic development in Kenya and Zambia. Prior to CCG, Alycia completed her DPhil in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, preceded by her B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland under full scholarship. Alycia's research investigates the design of sustainable and inclusive energy access systems which account… [Read more]

Pooya is a researcher at the Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on using mathematical optimization and whole system modelling approaches for infrastructure planning, supply chain modelling, and studying the implication of climate change mitigation and development targets on the energy system transition. Pooya is part of the System Design Workstream (WS3) at CCG. She leads the IRENA FlexTool modelling and training and is also part of the National Partnership teams in Viet Nam and Kenya. Pooya completed her PhD at the Centre for Environmental Policy and Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London.… [Read more]