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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford

Sam Fankhauser is Professor of Climate Change Economics and Policy at the University of Oxford, where he is affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the School of Geography and the Environment. He is also Research Director of Oxford Net Zero and a Fellow of Reuben College.

Before moving to Oxford, Sam was Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, where he remains a Visiting Professor. He was an inaugural member of the UK Climate Change Committee and served as a non-Executive Director of CDC Group (now British International Investment).

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, University of Oxford
  • 2008–2021
    Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of Economics

Education

  • 1994 
    PhD, University College London