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Author of many academic peer-refereed articles, book chapters and reports on energy and climate change topics. He is one of the most highly cited global researchers on controversies in energy and climate policy. He has submitted analysis and testimony to the UK’s House of Commons and House of Lords, and the US House of Representatives, Senate and Supreme Court. He was also a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, published in 2022.

An economist interested in measuring and delivering sustainability, wellbeing, and productivity. He regularly consults for governments and scientific organisations on topics of natural capital, ecosystem services, and sustainability. He works across sectors and disciplines, and maintains active research networks around the world and throughout the UK. He is a regular media contributor to outlets including Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, and Channel 4 News.

Head of the working group Land Use, Infrastructures and Transport at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, and Chair of Sustainability Economics at Technische Universität Berlin. He was Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report and a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report.

Professor Creutzig joins the Bennett Institute for Innovation and Acceleration from September 2024.

Professor Klusak is a co-founder and director of Wealth Fair Economics, Professor in Accounting and Finance at Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University; Affiliated Researcher at Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-founder of climaTRACES Lab at Kings College Cambridge.

Her research investigates the behaviour and regulation of credit ratings agencies (CRAs), and their effects on financial systems. She is internationally recognised as one of the top women in sustainable finance and has established a niche in using novel methods to combine environmental science with economics to address important, action-ready topics in finance. This is evidenced by her research outputs, a global media profile with over 250 citations globally including Bloomberg, Forbes, Reuters FT, NYTimes, and direct engagement with governments, central banks (including the Fed), financial institutions (including investment banks, ratings agencies, the World Bank, and the IMF), and multilateral development banks (AIIB, IDB). Her research on the effects climate change and biodiversity loss on sovereign debt markets has been nominated for the Frontiers Future Planet Prize 2024, and has potential to attract major research grants and philanthropic funding.

Prof Klusak holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance and a BA in Banking and Finance from Bangor University, and an MPhil in Real Estate Finance at Cambridge University.

Karoline Rogge is Professor of Sustainability Innovation and Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School, and principal investigator of the EMPOCI project on governing the acceleration of sustainable energy-mobility transitions. She was Co-Director of the Sussex Energy Group from April 2017 until August 2021, and inaugural Course Director of SPRU’s online MSc in Energy Policy in 2018/19. Karoline joined SPRU in November 2013 from the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Fraunhofer ISI) in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she has been working on energy and climate policy since 2004 and continues to be affiliated with as senior researcher – and since July 2019 as Deputy Head of the Competence Centre Policy & Society.

Karoline’s inter- and transdisciplinary research combines insights from economics, innovation & transition studies and policy sciences to investigate the interplay between policy and innovation, with a focus on the electricity and transport sectors. Karoline’s research ranges from evaluating the innovation impact of single policy instruments, such as the EU emissions trading system – the topic of her PhD at ETH Zurich – to analysing the effects of comprehensive policy mixes for promoting the transition of the energy system to climate neutrality. Currently, Karoline’s main research focus lies on the acceleration of sustainable energy-mobility transitions in the UK, Germany, the USA and China in her European Research Council-funded project EMPOCI (2020-2026).

Dr. Williams is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose research focuses on sociotechnical and knowledge controversies; public perceptions of and engagement with science, technology, and innovation; and the establishment of epistemic authority. His current research, funded by the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers programme, seeks to understand how fact-checkers produce and justify their verdicts, how this my change due to the development and application AI technologies, and how public audiences respond to the different approaches taken by fact-checkers. 

With over 25 years working in science policy and research management, Dr Hayter is an experienced programme manager, having led EPSRC’s Materials Science and Energy Programmes, established Interdisciplinary Research Centres in Nanotechnology and contributed nanotechnology policy advice to the UK Government. He has also managed Innovate UK’s Open Innovation Programmes relating to business knowledge exchange. He has managed and organised major international reviews of research and has authored over 100 published/unpublished science policy papers.