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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.

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 He has managed and organised major international reviews of research and has authored over 100 published/unpublished science policy papers.

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.