Ben Caldecott

Ben Caldecott is Head of Policy. He directs the CCC ThinkTank and advises clients and funds on climate change, clean energy and sustainability and on the development of policy-driven markets. Ben has been recognised as a leader in his field by the US Department of State and Who's Who, and as "a leading thinker of the green movement" by The Independent. He is a regular commentator for major national newspapers and has authored and edited numerous publications.

During his time at CCC he has worked on secondment at a senior level in the Strategy Directorate of the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change, as a Sherpa to the Green Investment Bank Commission and as an Adviser to the Conservative Party's Implementation Unit before the 2010 General Election. Prior to CCC, Ben was Research Director, Environment and Energy at Policy Exchange, a leading UK based think tank.

In addition to his role at CCC, Ben is a Trustee of the Green Alliance and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE), where he has established the Oxford futures programme on asset stranding. He has a number of other board and advisory level appointments with organisations working on environment policy, including the Carbon Tracker Initiative, and is a regular peer reviewer, latterly for the IEA, OECD and CDKN. Ben read economics and specialised in development and China at London, Peking and Cambridge universities and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, Royal Geographical Society and LEAD International.

Selected media experience includes: Associated Press, BBC News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service, Bloomberg, Business Week, CNBC, ENDS, International Herald Tribune, Investors Chronicle, ITV, Metro, Platts, Point Carbon, Press Association, Reuters, Sky News, The Economist, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Independent, The New York Times, The Scotsman, The Telegraph and The Times.