Ian Simm

Founder & CEO

Ian Simm is the Founder and Chief Executive of Impax Asset Management Group plc, one of the world’s leading investment managers dedicated to investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy, with offices and clients in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region.

Outside Impax, Ian is a member of the UK government’s Net Zero Council, which provides strategic leadership to support delivery of the government’s low carbon objectives, and its Net Zero Innovation Board, which provides strategic oversight of public sector funding of energy innovation programmes.  He is a board member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the European membership body for investor collaboration on addressing climate change a commissioner with the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of leaders developing transition roadmaps to achieve net-zero emissions, and the chair of the Net Zero Committee of the Confederation of British Industry.  His past roles include being a board member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK’s leading funding agency for environmental science, and a Commissioner with the Severn Estuary Commission.  Prior to Impax, Ian was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company advising clients on environmental strategy.

Ian has a first-class honours degree in physics from Cambridge University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University.  After his first degree he initiated and led an expedition to complete the first summer crossing of the Sahara Desert by tandem bicycle.