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Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Enterprise

Background

Craig's research focuses on how to finance nature restoration and ecosystem services, especially carbon removals. He posts regularly on LinkedIn about this topic, see examples below.

He also has several non-exec roles with the Scottish Land Commission, RSPB Scotland and the Financial Reporting Council.

Craig has had a long career in asset management, working as head of sustainable investment at Friends Ivory Sime, Insight and Scottish Widows, head of strategic asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management and a climate portfolio manager at abrdn plc. In these roles he also helped shape the development of FTSE4Good, the UN PRI and the GRI as well as serving on boards at IIGCC, UKSIF and Accountability.

In parallel to his investment career, Craig has worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Business School, where he set up the Centre for Business and Climate Change (now BCCaS) and helped launch the MSc programmes in Carbon Management and Climate Change Finance and Investment, on which he teaches. 

Research Interests

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