Impax champions sustainable finance at Climate Week NYC 2024

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.

Before joining lmpax in 2022, Charlie was Professor of Practice at Imperial College London and Founding Executive Director of lmperial’s award-winning Centre for Climate Finance and Investment. In his corporate career, Charlie was Head of Structuring and Valuation for Global Power at BP plc and part of the team that launched BP Alternative Energy in 2005 with an $8 billion funding commitment. He began his career as an Energy Policy Analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration.

Charlie is co-author and editor of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, now in its second edition. He holds a BA from the University of Washington, an MBA from Vanderbilt University, and gained a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) in finance from IE Business School.

Previously, Shahbano was an Engagement Manager at Vivid Economics and McKinsey, advising governments, corporates and financial institutions on energy transition pathways, low-carbon technology innovation and sustainable finance strategy.

Shahbano holds an MSc in International Economics and Public Policy at Sciences Po, Paris, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford.