Ian is a sustainability leader and policy expert with over 20 years’ experience working at the intersection of climate policy and corporate sustainability. He supports corporate and public sector organisations design and implement their sustainability journeys including assessing their exposure to climate and nature risks; building bespoke scenario and pathways analysis; and developing the associated policies and strategies to help them with the transition to a low carbon economy. He spent 10 years with the international consultancy Guidehouse where he established their decarbonization solutions team, helping design and implement transformational programs, including Guidehouse’s Sustainability as a Service (SaaS) offering, Low Carbon Pathways tool and methodologies around climate and nature risks and opportunities.

Prior to Guidehouse, Ian spent 10 years as a policymaker in the UK government as the head of the global carbon markets team and led the negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Earlier he was the First Secretary (Climate Security) for the British Embassy Moscow running projects building links between the UK and Russia on climate and energy, and developed policy focused on industrial and household energy efficiency. He holds a PhD that explored how companies integrate biodiversity and natural capital risks into their corporate strategies which developed the "Beyond Stakeholder" theoretical model for systemic nature-risk mitigation.

Areas of expertise:

• Developing and communicating decarbonization scenarios and pathways

• Corporate and public sector climate policy impact assessments

• Corporate climate governance and risk assessment

• National and international climate policy

• Climate and energy policy implementation support