Lecturer in Climate Finance & Investment
Roles and Responsibilities
Ian is a part-time Lecturer teaching on the MSc Change Finance & Investment programme, part of the Accounting and Finance Group in the University of Edinburgh Business School. He is a member of the Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability (B-CaSS).
He is also the Head of Consultancy at Changeworks, a Scotland-based social enterprise where he works to accelerate decarbonisation through research, evaluation, dissemination and influencing.
Please note that due to his part-time role, Ian is not able at this time to take on additional PhD students.
Background
Ian holds a PhD in economics from Université Paris-Dauphine (France), a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) from Sciences-Po Paris (France) and a BA in Policy Studies from the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Public Affairs (USA). Before joining the University of Edinburgh, Ian held various roles at the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Ian has lectured in master's-level programmes at Sciences-Po Paris and Université Paris-Dauphine.
Research Interests
Ian has worked in the area of climate and environmental policy for close to fifteen years, focusing his expertise on the mainstreaming of climate-change related issues into decision making and institutional governance. He currently works on a broad range of investment-related issues, including Paris Alignment, the role of public financial institutions in the low-carbon transition; the environmental integrity of financial products; climate risk perception by financial actors; international and national climate-related financial flows; and the alignment of development finance and long-term climate change objectives.