OUR EXPERTISE
Sustainability
Sustainability team:
Senior Associate
Dimitri Zenghelis
Dimitri heads our Sustainability practice Area and is also a core member of our Macroeconomics and Financial Markets team.
An internationally reputed economist, Dimitri advises governments, banks, financial institutions, NGOs, and other international organisations and corporations on sustainability, climate change, innovation, economic modelling, and clean urbanisation.
He set up the Wealth Economy Project at the Bennett Institute at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), Chair of the Wealth Committee for Capital Generation Partners, and a member of the London Sustainable Development Commission.
Prior to this he served as Head of the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE and Chief Economist for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.
He was also lead author on the ground-breaking Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and worked at HM Treasury as Head of Economic Forecasting.
Dimitri holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MSc from the University of Bristol.
Senior Associate
Simon Commander
He holds an MA from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University.
Senior Economist
Silja Sepping
Senior Associate
Martin Fraenkel
Dimitri Zenghelis
Senior Associate
Simon Commander
Senior Associate
Silja Sepping
Senior Economist
Martin Fraenkel
Senior Associate
Businesses and governments are increasingly committing to ‘net zero’ targets and to climate transition plans.
The need to decarbonise by 2050 is a strategic imperative that is already having major consequences for all sectors of the economy. Technology-driven innovation is creating new markets, and wiping out old ones. This brings with it disruption and associated political challenges.
Because of the scale and pace of change – actual and future – conventional analytic and business tools are mostly not up to the task. Understanding and mastering these challenges necessitates appreciation of the interconnections between technological, behavioural, and political change and, with it, of forward-looking risk and opportunity. Independent Economics provides the relevant analytical and policy tools that enable clients to meet these new strategic challenges.

Independent Economics offers a combination of a wide range of expertise, as well as deep specialist knowledge relating to the shift to a carbon- and resource-constrained future.
Our advisers offer a mix of capital market, policy, business and academic experience and insight.
- We advise governments, companies, financial institutions, central banks, and NGOs to help them secure policy-led market solutions for attaining carbon-free and ESG goals.
- With our experience of working in International Financial Institutions, we are in touch with key decisionmakers at the highest levels, helping investors to connect ESG opportunities with international development resources.
- We work with a rich network of academic and policy experts, including from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, London School of Economics, the UK Committee on Climate Change as well as former senior finance ministry and central bank officials.

We advise clients on:
- The economics and politics of sustainability and climate change including specific regulatory and energy policy as they affect corporate and investment strategies.
- Market-shaping tipping points, based on our understanding of carbon and energy markets and anticipation of technological, behavioural, and institutional innovation.
- Advancing beyond reliance on climate scenarios, based on static models that currently inform the regulatory approach, to account for system-wide changes in behaviour and technologies.
- Helping clients understand and respond to the rapidly evolving regulatory environment in both advanced and emerging markets.
- Designing long-term investment strategies in asset management that reflect climate science and other sustainability pressures, such as biodiversity loss and nature markets.
- Development of risk management and hedging strategies in asset allocation and investment in the light of company-specific and economy-wide climate scenarios.
- Designing ESG strategies for companies including preparing for imminent and wide-ranging changes in disclosure and sustainability reporting.
- The design of corporate and sovereign funding strategies, including through green bonds, that can respond to shifting investor mandates and preferences.
- Harnessing carbon markets in achieving ESG goals and the energy transition.
- Advising on energy policy and pricing issues to align with sustainability goals, including devising politically-sensitive pathways to reduce or eliminate energy price subsidies.

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