Ben has deep expertise in climate change: he was a founding team member of the UK’s Climate Change Committee in 2008, a Co-Principal to the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate in 2014, and in 2018 joined the Advisory Board to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change. In 2020 he was a launch Director of the Transform to Net Zero global cross-sector initiative, and was a core representative for WBCSD’s global Vision 2050 agenda, launched in 2021.
Ben is a dual UK-US citizen and holds an MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London.