Kamiar Mohaddes

I'm an expert in the macroeconomics of climate change and sustainability at Cambridge University, where I’m Director of the climaTRACES Lab, a new interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Cambridge focusing on climate, nature, and sustainability.

I'm also the Director of the Global Executive MBA programme at Cambridge and Fellow in Economics at King’s College, Cambridge, where I co-founded and direct the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). At the E-Lab our aim is to foster innovation and cultivate a community of entrepreneurial minds at the heart of the University of Cambridge. We strive to be a pioneer in entrepreneurship and innovation education, learning, and research. We achieve our purpose through a wide range of activities spanning both commercial and social ventures.

Over the last four years I have raised more than $14 million to support research and innovation programmes, as well student activities.

In addition to climate change and sustainability, my research covers energy economics, innovation and entrepreneurship, economics of the Middle East, and applied macroeconomics more broadly. My articles have been published in a number of edited volumes as well as in leading academic journals, and have been covered in major international news outlets. My work has been cited extensively by policymakers, including by more than 25 members of the United States Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, the White House, Attorneys General of 22 U.S. States and the District of Columbia, as well as Chief Legal Officers of 9 Local Governments (U.S. cities and counties). I’m among the top 1% of authors in IDEAS/RePEc rankings based on last 10 years of publications. In 2025, I received the Financial Times Award for Academic Research with Impact.

I work extensively on issues related to climate change and sustainability with both the public (including the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, IDB) and the private sector (BCG, BNP Paribas, KPMG and many others). I’m currently Senior Consultant at the World Bank, have been a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, and have previously served as a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada.

I’m also an Academic Programme Director at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education, designing and leading pioneering programmes including BNP Paribas Leadership for Change programme for 600 executives, the Presidential Fellowship in Economics and Business Leadership programme with participants handpicked by the Indonesian President, and the Cambridge–Dhirubhai Ambani Global ESG & Sustainability Leadership Programme. I have also co-designed the global ESG training initiative for KPMG’s 223,000 employees, which has reached more than 10,000 participants so far, and have contributed to dozens of Executive Education Programmes at Cambridge and beyond.

Brought up in Sweden, I moved to England to study, initially for my undergraduate degree at Warwick and then moving to Cambridge to do MPhil and PhD in economics as a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar, and have stayed in Cambridge ever since. 

While you are here check out a new Oxford University Press video below on my research on the Economics of Climate Change with over 400K views (how did that happen)!