Sam Fankhauser is Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and  Research Director of Oxford Net Zero.  He is also an Official Fellow of Reuben College, where he leads the college’s environmental change theme. Before moving to Oxford, Sam was Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He has also worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility. He was an inaugural member of the UK Climate Change Committee and a Non-Executive Director of CDC Group (now British International Investment), the UK’s development finance institution.