Christine has 25+ years’ experience in investment management, research & consulting, with a focus on technology, governance and sustainability.

Her PhD thesis on responsible investment was short-listed for a United Nations award in Sweden for industry relevance and academic excellence.  She is a board member of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), an organization led by investors responsible for assets under management of around $US 77 trillion from over 39 countries and territories. She was appointed an honorary adviser to the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council (AFRC) Hong Kong in April 2021, and the Convenor (Chair) of the AFRC Sustainability and Climate Action Task Force (SCATF) in February 2022.

She is an Emeritus Governor of the London School of Economics (LSE), following the completion of her six-year term as a Member of Court and Investment Committee (2015-2021). She was a member in the Data Governance Task Force of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Artificial Intelligence (2018 – 2021); and an Adjunct Professor in Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2014 – 2016), where she established the first tri-modal graduate course on social entrepreneurship and impact investing, supported by funds from family foundation and the Hong Kong government.

In 2019, She was named top 30 Inspirational Women in the City of London.  In 2020, She won the Finance Monthly Women in Finance Award as the Investment Management Leader of the Year (Asia). In 2022, she won the Sustainable and ESG Investment Woman of the Year Women in Investment Award (large firms) of InvestmentWeek.

Christine is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. She completed an executive education course on financial engineering at Stanford University.

Her most recent role was Managing Director, UBS Asset Management, bringing together the global stewardship, thematic research and impact engagement teams at UBS with Credit Suisse Asset Management.  Prior to joining the UBS Group, she was the global Head of Stewardship at HSBC Asset Management and a board member of HSBC Asset Management UK Limited.

Graham has more than 20 years of experience working across energy, climate change and sustainability. Graham has worked in various roles in energy efficiency, the UK electricity market, the strategy team at the Carbon Trust and, most recently, as an independent strategy consultant helping small, growing organisations across the sustainability sector.

Alice Chapple is an economist and a specialist in impact investment and impact assessment. She established Impact Value, a business and investor advice organisation, in October 2012. Alice used to head up the financial services sector work at Forum for the Future, a not-for-profit adviser on sustainable development.

Alice has worked on projects exploring the scope for innovative financial instruments, more effective valuation techniques, better risk assessment, and longer-term investment strategies. Before her time at Forum For the Future, Alice worked at development finance institution CDC in various roles, including financial analyst, fund manager, and social and environmental advisor. She also worked for Actis, the emerging markets private equity firm. Alice has an MA in economics from Cambridge University and is a chartered accountant.

Deputy Chief Executive, Conduit Capital

Meg has over 20 years’ experience in sustainability and impact investment and leads Conduit Capital’s Business Development activities globally. Prior to joining the team, she led marketing and product strategy at Impax Asset Management, as well as co-leading sustainability reporting across the firm. An alumni of Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics, she has previously held roles at Citi Investment Research, the Global Impact Investing Network and the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance Association.

Environmental Economics (PhD.), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Dr. Tauni Lanier has been named as a non-executive director of Carbon Tracker and recently interim Chair. Lanier, formerly Executive Director of IMPACT2030, the only private sector-led initiative with the United Nations and other stakeholders to unite companies in their corporate volunteering efforts on the Sustainable Development Goals, is Sustainability Director at World Wide Generation (WWG), a UK fintech firm. Earlier in her career she was the first Managing Director of the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index and subsequently, Senior Project Manager for the Sustainable Development Reporting Project with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Natasha is currently a Partner and Head of Stewardship at the asset manager Sarasin & Partners LLP, where she steers the integration environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters in the investment process; voting and company engagement; and public positioning on key sustainable investment matters. Since 2017, she has spearheaded Sarasin’s flagship Climate Active strategy. Natasha is a member of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council’s Investor Advisory Group, is a member of the Disclosure and Transparency Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network and sits on the Consultative Advisory Group to the International Audit and Assurance Standards Board. Natasha is currently a member of the Investment Committee for the Cambridge Assistants Contributory Pension Scheme. Prior to joining Sarasin & Partners, Natasha spent six years as the Senior Analyst leading ESG integration and several areas of policy work at the Universities Superannuation Scheme’s Investment Management arm; and four years in Budapest working with OTP Fund Management and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Before moving into finance, Natasha spent a number of years working on sustainable development issues in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Natasha started her career as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow, working as the Chief Economist in the Guyana Forestry Commission.

Natasha has Masters in Economics from Cambridge University, an MSc in Natural Resource Economics from University College London, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Nick joined the Grantham Research Institute in February 2018 as Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance. Nick leads the sustainable finance research theme. The focus of his work is on how to mobilise finance for climate action in ways that support a just transition, promoting the role of central banks and regulators in achieving sustainable development and investigating how the financial system can support the restoration of nature.

Nick is author of The Road to Net Zero Finance for the UK’s Climate Change Committee and co-founder of the Financing the Just Transition Alliance and is also a Commissioner on Scotland’s Just Transition Commission. He leads the finance platform for the Place-based Climate Action Network, and is co-chair of the International Network for Sustainable Finance Policy Insights, Research and Exchange (INSPIRE).

From 2014 to 2018, Nick was co-director of UN Environment’s Inquiry into a Sustainable Finance System. As part of this, Nick established the Sustainable Insurance Forum of regulators and the Financial Centres for Sustainability network, as well as leading country activities in Brazil, the EU, India, Italy and the UK.

Before joining UNEP, he was Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC. Prior to HSBC, Nick was head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds at Henderson Global Investors. Nick has also worked at the International Institute for Environment and Development, the European Commission and the Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Nick is co-founder of Carbon Tracker and also co-founder of Planet Tracker. Nick has published widely and is the author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational‘ (2005) and co-editor of Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long-Term Performance (2008). He is currently working on an ecological history of England and a book on finance, climate change and justice. He has a BA in History from Cambridge University and an MSc in International Relations from LSE.

Mike joined Carbon Tracker in 2019, and now leads the Oil, Gas and Mining research team, focused on developing metrics and tools to enable investors to assess the financial implications of the energy transition on these sectors, alongside assessment of corporate climate-alignment.

Key outputs include Managing Peak Oil, Navigating Peak Demand and the Paris Maligned series alongside overseeing data and analytics outputs and the development of the refreshed company profiles. Other research themes include executive remuneration and broader financial system implications, covered in the Petrostates series.

Prior to joining Carbon Tracker, Mike worked as a geologist for BP for 10 years on projects across the Upstream value chain, from access to development. Mike has experience working in petroleum basins across the world, including time spent working in Norway, with expertise in unconventional exploration and in leading technical project teams.

Mike has an MA and MSci in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and is a Chartered Geologist (CGeol).

Ben joined Carbon Tracker in 2022 focussing on the Automotive sector.

Prior to Carbon Tracker, Ben worked at MUFG Bank in London providing financial and industry analysis on the automotive sector to help manage the bank’s credit exposure and risk appetite. He has also worked directly within the automotive industry at Aston Martin Lagonda. Ben started his career at IHS Markit where he led the E-Mobility research service, focussing on decarbonisation and emissions legislation.

Ben holds a degree in Physics from the University of Leeds.

Richard Folland has been Carbon Tracker’s policy and government affairs adviser since 2014 and in 2023 joined as the Head of Policy and Engagement. Richard has over 30 years’ experience as a diplomat and advocate, operating at the highest level, based in Europe and elsewhere. He has worked on the climate and energy agenda, as a policymaker and as a private sector advisor, for 15 years. A former head of international energy policy at the UK Foreign Office, Richard has also been JPMorgan’s European Advisor on Energy and Climate Change, the Executive Director of the Climate Markets and Investment Association (CMIA), and the Head of Energy and Environment at Inline Policy. He was Co-Founder of the strategic advisory firm, Sustineri, working with institutional investors on climate and sustainability issues.

Guy joined Carbon Tracker in 2022 as a Senior Analyst in the Oil, Gas and Mining team. He has since contributed to research highlighting transition risks at the company and country level, in reports Navigating Peak Demand and Petrostates of Decline. Guy has also written on the downstream refining sector and the UK North Sea.

Prior to Carbon Tracker, Guy worked in Commodity Insights at S&P Global (and previously IHS Markit) where he led a research team focused on the European upstream energy sector. Here he spent 8 years developing asset and company-level valuations alongside consulting on upstream oil and gas economic risk.

Guy holds a BSc in geology and MSc in petroleum geoscience. In 2014 he obtained a PhD in numerical stratigraphic forward modelling from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Durand is a data scientist at Carbon Tracker in the Power & Utilities team, with experience across a wide range of domains. Prior to joining Carbon Tracker, he was a freelance data journalist producing interactive visual stories, winning an Information Is Beautiful award along the way. He also worked on a PhD in computational stellar astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, until his lifelong obsession with climate & energy policy prevailed. He is interested in how machine learning can be used for social good and to bring about a just transition.

Durand holds a Masters in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Leeds.

Philip has 20 years’ experience in the asset management industry having previously worked as a global equity analyst and portfolio manager at Universities Superannuation Scheme and Old Mutual Asset Managers.

Philip holds a masters in IT from the University of Stirling.

Tino joined Carbon Tracker’s Regulatory Team as an Associate Analyst working on accounting and auditing climate disclosures. Prior to this, Tino spent years working in the accounting industry. There he gained experience and working knowledge of financial reporting for companies in a wide variety of sectors.

Tino graduated from Lancaster University with a BSc in Economics with a particular interest in environmental and development economics.

Saidrasul is an associate analyst with the Oil, Gas and Mining Team.

He focusses on corporate emissions targets and remuneration policies and has co-authored the latest edition of Absolute Impact and a primer on transition risks in the midstream sector.

Prior to joining Carbon Tracker, he worked as the managing editor of the Uzbekistan Energy Monitor, covering oil and gas, conventional power and renewables. He also worked as a correspondent and news presenter.

Saidrasul holds a BA in Commercial Law from Westminster International University in Tashkent and an MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.

Amy works as an Associate Analyst for Mark Campanale. Before joining Carbon Tracker, she worked as a Senior Public Affairs Executive in a membership organisation representing the publishing industry, leading on public affairs and sustainability work. She won PRWeek’s CCPA Public Affairs Newcomer of the Year Award in 2020.

She holds a master’s degree in International Security from Bristol University, where she also studied a bachelor’s degree in Politics and International Relations.

Olivia joined Carbon Tracker’s Oil, Gas & Mining Team as an Associate Analyst in 2023. Previously, Olivia managed a project on climate-related financial risk for the University of Oxford. She has also advised private equity, growth equity, and private credit investors as an ESG management consultant at Malk Partners, where she completed over 200 ESG due diligence reviews and co-developed the firm’s climate change due diligence framework and private credit service line. 

Olivia holds an MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise, and the Environment from the University of Oxford and a BS in International Affairs (majoring in International Economics) from Georgetown University. 

Rich joined Carbon Tracker in October 2023 as an analyst in the Oil, Gas & Mining team.

Prior to this, he worked as an editor and reporter at the climate non-profit organisation DeSmog, investigating misinformation, greenwashing and the influence of vested interests on climate and energy policy. He published stories alongside outlets including The Times, The Guardian and The Independent.

Rich holds an MSc in environmental and energy economics from University College London and a BA in French and Russian from Oxford University.

Nicole is a professional with experience working at the intersection of business strategy, sustainable finance and financial technology. Prior to joining Planet Tracker, Nicole was the EMEA Head of Client Relations at Bloomberg LP, where she was responsible for delivering a board-sponsored strategy to align the company’s external relations and philanthropy programmes for the benefit of Bloomberg’s core business. Nicole holds a MA in International Political Economy from King’s College London and a BA in European Studies from the University of Bremen. She has completed the CFA Level 4 certification in ESG Investing and is both a Young SDG Innovator graduate and a member of the UN Global Compact Network UK.

Simon brings over 20 years’ experience working in client facing roles at financial institutions. He was previously working at Japaninvest / Haitong International before joining our team where he was the Executive Director – Equity Research, ESG, Execution and Capital Markets Sales. Simon holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is a member of the CFA Society of UK.

Sally brings over two decades of communications experience, spanning both agency and in-house roles with leading global brands including American Express, Unilever, Ikea and Marks and Spencer. Before joining Carbon Tracker, she led responsible business communications at Kingfisher plc, overseeing internal and external sustainability communications across the group. Her expertise includes both traditional and digital communication strategy development, with a strong focus on sustainability communications.

Joel Benjamin is the Press & Communications Manager at Carbon Tracker. Joel has experience in social media, research and journalism – with work featured in C4 Dispatches, The FT and BBC.

Joel has researched the fossil fuel exposure of 100 local government Pension Scheme funds, culminating in the publication of the Reinvesting Pensions report in 2016. He has held roles as a Research Assistant for the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths University and been a campaigner for Move Your Money UK.

Previously, he has undertaken governmental environmental planning and consultancy roles for various organisations in Australia, New Zealand, Oman and the UK. He has a BSc in geography from Otago University & has studied towards a Masters in regional resource planning at Massey University, NZ.

Hannah joined Carbon Tracker in 2024 as an Events & Communications Officer. Before joining Carbon Tracker, she held various internship positions with sustainability NGOs in Washington, D.C. She also worked as an undergraduate research assistant, contributing to projects focusing on sustainability in the Arctic.

Hannah holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Environmental Studies and International Affairs from The George Washington University.

Mirabella is Carbon Tracker’s primary project manager. Part of the central team (production, fundraising and M&E), she works closely with project leads and research teams across the board to execute all publications. In addition, she helps with writing fundraising proposals and reports for Power & Utilities.

Before joining Carbon Tracker, Mirabella worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in research administration. She also served as a board member for Boston Rotaract, a chapter of Rotary International that focuses on local and international service projects. Mirabella has strong interests in education, philanthropy, and sustainability.

Mirabella has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she focused on disaster risk reduction using information communication technology. She also founded Women of Colour in Consulting, LSE’s first student-led organization to support professional women of colour. She has a BA in Journalism and Portuguese from UMass Amherst and a graduate certificate in Organizational Behaviour from Harvard.

Jon Grayson is a specialist in sustainable finance. Before joining Carbon Tracker in 2014, he was the founder-director of EnviroMarket, a niche consultancy focused on innovative financing mechanisms, particularly in forestry and soft commodities. From 2011 to 2014, Jon led operations at the Social Stock Exchange. His earlier career included roles as a strategy consultant with Mars & Co, a cash equities research analyst with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette International in the late 1990s, and a change consultant to the UK health service.

Jon provided technical support to Carbon Tracker’s team during the creation of the first Unburnable Carbon report in 2011 and formally joined in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer (COO). He became Director General in June 2018 and served as CEO until July 2024. He continues to contribute to Carbon Tracker’s mission as a Senior Advisor.

Jon holds a first-class BSc and a postgraduate degree in Engineering, and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, where he was awarded the ERM prize for his research on win-win business models for sustainability.

Kingsmill Bond, CFA, is a Senior Principal in the Strategic Analysis and Engagement team at RMI. He previously worked at Carbon Tracker as the Energy Strategist.

Kingsmill has worked as a sell-side City equity analyst and strategist for 25 years, including for Deutsche Bank, Sberbank and Citibank in London, Hong Kong and Moscow. He has written research on emerging market and global themes, including the wider significance of the shale revolution and the impact of US energy independence.

He has an MA in history from Cambridge University, qualified is an accountant (CIMA), and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.

Mark is the Founding Partner of Energy Transition Advisors

Mark has had 35 years experience in financial markets spanning three continents in London, New York and Sydney. As a recognized economist and market strategist at leading financial institutions including Citigroup, Salomon Bros and County NatWest, he has researched international economies, currencies, fixed income and equity markets. Mark has also held corporate strategy, finance and management roles including Head of Equity Research at Citigroup Australia and US.

Having a strong interest in the environment and sustainability, starting with a report on climate change and markets in 1991, Mark was head of research at DB Climate Change Advisors at Deutsche Bank from 2007 to 2012, where he produced thought leadership papers for investors on climate, cleaner energy and sustainability topics and advised investment teams in asset management.

From 2010 to 2012 he was Co chair of the UNEP FI Climate Change Working Group and in 2011 and 2012 was part of the technical committee of the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All.

He helped develop the Get Fit concept for scaling up renewable energy now deployed in Uganda. Mark was a member of the UK CMCI.

Mark is Chairman of the General Partner Advisory Board of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, a global investment manager focused on low carbon and renewable energy infrastructure assets in North America, United Kingdom and Australia

Mark is Chair of the Research Council at Carbon Tracker where he has authored a number of papers on fossil fuel risks; Special Advisor to the Climate Bond Initiative and to 2° Investing Initiative. He is project lead for the PRI commissioned “Inevitable Policy Response” and a member of the VCMI steering committee.

Mark has a BA in Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University.

Anthony was Chief Executive Officer of the Carbon Tracker Initiative from February 2014 to March 2019, and now is co-chair of the Advisory Board. Previously he was a partner and Global Head of the Sustainability & Climate Finance Practice at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Formerly he was General Counsel to the Climate Change Capital Carbon Fund and Director of Legal Policy for Climate Change Capital which he joined in September 2005.

Anthony specialised in climate change and clean energy law as well as UK, EU and international environmental law. He has played a key role in helping to design the UKs pilot emissions trading scheme and in developing key aspects of the EU ETS. Anthony was seconded to Norton Rose Fulbright’s Sydney office between 2010 and 2012 where he was heavily involved in the development of the emerging carbon and clean energy markets in Australia and Asia. He was a key figure behind the creation of the business advocacy group Businesses for a Clean Economy, a coalition of business arguing for a price on carbon.

Anthony was behind the creation of the business group Climate Markets & Investment Association. He sat on the board of the Verified Carbon Standards Association (now Vera) between 2007 and 2015. He currently sits on the Advisory Board to the Climate Bonds Initiative and the Global Footprint Network. Anthony holds a First-Class Honours Degree in Chemistry & Physics and an LLM in Environmental Law. He qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales in 1994.  He writes and speaks widely on climate risk and the financial sector.

Paul graduated from Oxford University with an MA in Chemistry in 1980. Later that year, he joined Dresdner Bank (then Grieveson Grant) analysing the financial performance of UK oil companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange. In 2005, he moved to HSBC, where he was Global Co-Head of Oil And Gas Research.

He was one of the first “conventional” oil analysts to publish research in to the potential cost of carbon for oil companies with two reports in 2008 and 2013, both called “Oil & Carbon.  He retired from HSBC in 2013, after 33 years as a financial analyst. He is now Research Advisor to Carbon Tracker.

Harry Benham has over 30 years international experience in the oil and gas industry with BP and Shell’s Upstream Projects, and several years working in an advisory capacity with EY Oil and Gas in the UK. He now works mainly in energy transition roles as Chairman of the London-based think-tank Ember-Climate, and as a transition advisor to Carbon Tracker.