Niall joined the Tracker Group in May 2025 as Director of Research, overseeing the delivery of Carbon Tracker & Planet Tracker research programs.

Niall has 30 years of experience in global debt and equity markets, both as an investor and in research roles, at: Goldman Sachs (from 1990 to 1997), KBC Financial Products (2000-2010), Avoca Capital/KKR (2010-2016) and Man GLG (2017-2021). Niall has invested in & researched most corporate and financial sectors, and produced a variety of thematic research including an innovative model for assessing credit default risk, pricing subordinated bank & insurance capital, and integrating material ESG risk assessment into credit investing. Niall’s growing conviction of the materiality of sustainability saw him join NGO ShareAction in 2022, where he was Head of Investor Standards, lead author of their Responsible Investment Standards & Expectations papers (on net zero targets, escalation pathways and fossil fuel company stewardship) and developed a model for bondholder stewardship of sustainability issues.

Niall has a BA in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University

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.

Ilmi Granoff is an expert on the transition to a net-zero, resilient economy, with over two decades of experience across public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit institutions. His work focuses on the policy, financing, and market conditions needed to accelerate decarbonization and understand the financial consequences of climate change and the energy transition.

He is Managing Partner of Climate Technology Group, Executive Chair of Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker, a Senior Advisor at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. He also serves on the advisory boards of Asset Impact and InfluenceMap.

Previously, Ilmi founded and led the Finance Program at ClimateWorks Foundation, served on the U.S. Government’s Climate-Related Financial Risk Advisory Committee, was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, headed the Green Growth Business Unit at the Overseas Development Institute, served as Special Counsel for Climate and Environment at the African Development Bank, practiced law in the global energy and infrastructure group at Freshfields, and worked at the United Nations Development Programme.

He holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, master’s degrees in international relations and environmental science from Yale University, and a B.A. with high honors from Swarthmore College.

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.

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.

Joy Williams is the head of Climate and Nature Frameworks at Athena Blue, formerly the technical lead at the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and at the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures. She brings a multi-disciplinary approach to climate change and nature strategy blending her experience in finance, government policy, strategic consulting, and private markets. Her prior experiences include work in carbon markets and climate strategy for large, mature asset owners such as Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and the New York State Common Retirement Fund. Joy is a Professional Engineer and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Laurie Laybourn is Executive Director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI), a think-do tank that develops capabilities for securing a better world as complex, environment-driven risks escalate. An award-winning researcher, Laurie holds fellowships at Chatham House, the University of Exeter, and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Laurie is also an advisor to the UK Climate Change Committee and adelphi think tank, and sits on the boards of Carbon Tracker and the Economic Change Unit, an organisation he founded; he joined Carbon Tracker’s board in recognition of the value of Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker’s work in helping to clarify the scale of the challenges facing financial systems as a result of the Earth system crisis and in catalysing the response. Previously, he led the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and has worked at the LSE, Oxford University, and the UK Parliament. Laurie regularly writes for a range of publications and appears on TV and radio.

Dr Mario Abela FCPA FCMA is an expert advisor on Sustainability Reporting at Bain &Co working extensively with companies and government agencies. He has worked with organisations including United Nations, CERES, Value Balancing Alliance and the Capitals Coalition. Mario is a Professor of Accounting at John Jay College, CUNY. He is the past Chair of World Intangible Capital Initiative and has held multiple roles on advisory boards for global accounting bodies. Mario is a recognized expert in accounting, reporting and governance. Mario holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of London, an MSc from Linkoping University, Sweden and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has held senior executive positions in both the public and private sector and for the last decade has been working in the area of sustainability promoting the importance of accounting and governance in developing sustainable business models. He regularly speaks at international conferences and seminars on the role that accounting and governance can play in supporting more sustainable businesses.

Guy joined Carbon Tracker in 2022 and now leads the Energy Supply 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.

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.

Saidrasul is an analyst in the Energy Supply team.

He focuses on executive remuneration and the downstream segments of the oil and gas value chain, including aviation fuels and petrochemicals. He authored the latest two editions of Crude Intentions and is the lead author of Absolute Impact 2023, Petrochemical Imbalance, and Awaiting Take-Off.

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.

Olivia joined Carbon Tracker’s Energy Supply 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. 

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.

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.

Barbara Davidson joined Carbon Tracker in 2020, where she heads the Capital Markets Transparency team and is the lead author of the Flying Blind report series.  Her team focuses on increasing stakeholder awareness of the need to improve climate-related disclosures in financial reporting and performing Climate Accounting and Audit Assessments for the Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark, Transition Arc’s governance metric and Climate Engagement Canada. Prior to this, Barbara worked as an independent consultant on a climate accounting initiative sponsored by the PRI.

Barbara has over 25 years of advisory, accounting, relationship and stakeholder management experience from working in the US, France, Hong Kong and the UK. She formerly headed the investor engagement team at the International Accounting Standards Board, where she founded and implemented their Investors in Financial Reporting programme and secured significant relationships in the global investment community. Barbara’s experience in accounting policy, transaction advisory and audit comes from working at international organisations including Morgan Stanley, Nomura, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte. Her background has provided her with significant insight into the financial reporting requirements of the investment community, including, but not limited to, environmental policy and climate-related risks.

Barbara is a US Certified Public Accountant with an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tino joined Carbon Tracker’s Capital Markets Transparency 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.

Emma Dai is an Analyst in Carbon Tracker’s Capital Markets Transparency team, where she focuses on improving transparency in financial statement disclosures of climate-related financial impacts (including in the audits thereof). She began her career at EY, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, before moving to Lloyds Banking Group as an Internal Audit Manager, where she specialised in data risk. Emma holds a BSc in Accounting and Finance from Lancaster University.

Richard Folland has been Carbon Tracker’s policy and government affairs adviser since 2014 and in 2023 joined as the Head of Capital Markets Policy. 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.

Joel Benjamin is the Financial Policy and Advocacy 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.

Amy works as a Capital Markets Policy Analyst. 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.

Chris joined Carbon Tracker from Trucost, an environmental data and analytics company owned by S&P Global, where he was leading their positive impact work. He was responsible for building, managing, and developing data sets and models for Trucost as well as for corporate, investor, and public sector clients.

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.

Nicole is a professional with experience working at the intersection of business strategy, sustainable finance and financial technology. Prior to joining Carbon 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.

Chris brings experience from working in the responsible investment industry. Prior to joining Carbon Tracker, he was an Outreach Analyst at the FAIRR Initiative, responsible for deepening investor engagement with the investor network, and raising awareness about the material ESG risks and opportunities present in the global protein supply chain. Chris holds an MSc in Global Challenges from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in Economics, Finance and International Business from Oxford Brookes University.

Marina is a sustainability professional with strong expertise in sustainable finance and ESG regulation. Before joining Tracker Group, Marina worked in Deloitte’s Sustainability & Climate Risk Advisory team in Athens, where she led EU Taxonomy, SFDR, and CSRD compliance projects, supported sustainability-related disclosures for financial institutions, worked on public green finance initiatives, and helped integrate sustainability into both strategy and reporting. She holds a BSc in Accounting and Finance and an MSc in Sustainable Management and Finance from Bayes Business School in London.

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.

Alessandra brings over two decades of communications experience across international development, clean energy access and human rights, having held senior roles and led multi-country teams and agency partners across Africa, Latin America and Europe. Before joining Carbon Tracker, she directed communications at Energy 4 Impact (now part of Mercy Corps), delivering a full rebrand and merger communications, and managing multilingual internal and external channels. Her expertise spans strategic communications and brand positioning, media relations, digital strategy and analytics, report editorial and launches, website/CMS delivery, stakeholder and donor engagement, and team leadership.

Hannah joined Carbon Tracker in 2024 as 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.

Beatrice holds a BA in History, an MSc in International Development from the University of Bristol, and an MA in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development from SOAS, University of London. She has previously reported for The Conduit and contributed feature articles to advaya. Currently, she works as an editor at the Atlas Institute for International Affairs.

Dominika joined Carbon Tracker in January 2021 as a Team Assistant supporting the Senior Team. Dominika has previously spent over 2 years working at RBB Economics as an Assistant to The Founder and COO, also as an Office Manager. Her diverse experience from previous roles where she was also looking after recruitment, marketing, events as well as working closely with HR is a helping hand for Carbon Tracker. Before directly supporting senior teams, she has been working in corporate customer service sector managing multiple teams in London. Dominika is passionate about making the world environmentally a better place for future generations, which is why she chose to work at CTI.

Dominika holds a Masters in International Tourism from Katowice School of Economics in Poland, where she also gained BA Hons in Hospitality Management.

Ayo is the Assistant Accountant at Carbon Tracker, where she supports the day-to-day finance operations with a focus on accuracy, compliance, and teamwork. With a background in the not-for-profit sector, she is passionate about using her skills to support mission-driven work.

Ayo is AAT-qualified and a member of the Chartered Institute of Administration (Nigeria).

Nikki is responsible for funding partnerships at Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker, and for deepening relationships within the ecosystem.  Her expertise comes from 20+ years of leading teams and philanthropy programmes across the environmental and international development sectors, including at WWF, UNICEF and FILE.  She has a degree in Environmental Science and is a Trustee of the Right To Education Initiative.

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.