Ben Caldecott is a British expert in

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, and founding director of the sustainable finance programme at the

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. and a supernumerary fellow at

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. Caldecott is also the founding director of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI), established by UK Research and Innovation in 2021 as the national centre to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally. He is a Trustee of the Green Alliance.

Biography

Caldecott has authored, co-authored and edited publications on energy, climate change and sustainability, although none in top journals.Caldecott Benjamin, Who's Who, 2013
Who's Who, Oxford University Press, UK, 2012 Prior to joining the

, Caldecott was head of policy at investment bank Climate Change Capital and before that was research director of environment and energy at

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. Caldecott read economics and specialised in development and China at the

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and

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. He has a doctorate in economic geography from the

. He was first included in the 2013 edition of

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and in that edition was the youngest non-sportsperson included on merit (i.e. not entered automatically through the possession of a hereditary title). He is a member of the board of the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), an independent forum for conservatives who support conservation and decarbonisation. Caldecott is co-chairman of The Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), together with Professor Rob Bauer (Maastricht University). Founded in 2017 by a network of global research universities, the Alliance aims to promote rigorous and highly impactful academic research on sustainable finance and investment. The Alliance is composed of 25 members.

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