Samuel Fankhauser

SAMUEL FANKHAUSER is an economist and climate change specialist at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics He is also a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change, a government watchdog that monitors UK climate change policy. A former Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Sam served on the 1995, 2001 and 2007 assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He studied economics at the University of Berne and the London School of Economics, and holds a PhD from University College London.