Dimitri Zenghelis is Special Advisor for the Wealth Economy Project, at the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge, which he previously co-founded and led, and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. He is Chair of the Responsible Wealth Committee at Capital Generation Partners and is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

He was until recently Head of Policy at the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE and Acting Chief Economist for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. Previously, he headed the Stern Review Team at the Office of Climate Change, London, and was a lead author on the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown. He was also Senior Economic Advisor to Cisco’s long-term innovation group and an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Climate and Sustainability

• Why the science of climate change makes transitioning to net zero inevitable.
  
• Can we be green and grow? Is sustainability and the net zero transition a threat to growth or a driver?
  
• How to model structural change and technology tipping points?
  
• What is the role of social norms and social expectations in driving policy, investment and lowering the costs of decarbonisation?

Innovation and Structural Transition

• Understanding the changing economic, technology and policy landscape
  
• Understand the process of rapid structural change and the drivers of systemic innovation, including looking out for and recognising the fast-growing opportunities.
  
• Do Moore’s law and Writes law apply to clean technologies?

Business Recommendations

• What the low-carbon transition means for portfolio theory and why diversification in a path-dependent world is not always beneficial
  
• Managing the transition and profiting from the changing landscape of risk and opportunity in a resource-efficient, low-carbon and digital world.
  
• Beyond carbon disclosure: how to build climate and transition into business risk-management and hedging strategies.
• Exploring leadership values, thinking and practice required to deliver change and overcome barriers (by re-evaluating assertions like “this is just the way we have always done things”)

The Geopolitics of Change

• Can we afford to invest in a clean transition? What does macroeconomics and the global market for saving and investment tell us?
  
• Will new geopolitical alliances induce more active economic strategies to support investment? What will it mean for global productivity and sustainability?
  
• Will the post-Ukraine energy crunch slow or accelerate the low carbon transition?