Dr Ben Caldecott
Biography
Dr Ben Caldecott is the founding member Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme. He is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, a Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, a Visiting Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
Ben is also Senior Advisor to the Chair and CEO of the UK Green Finance Institute (GFI). He currently serves on the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee. In his capacity as a Member of the UK Green Finance Taskforce, he chaired its workstream for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) Implementation. He has conceived and initiated several initiatives related to sustainable finance.
Ben has been a member of EGAC since February 2020. His appointment is due to end on 1st February 2026.
Member, Export Guarantees Advisory Council
Export Guarantees Advisory Council (EGAC) provides advice to UK Export Finance and its ministers on the policies UK Export Finance applies when doing business including:
- environmental impacts and human rights
- sustainable lending
- bribery and corruption
- disclosure, including freedom of information requests