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Biography

Associate Professor in Economics and Policy, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK , Director, Global Executive MBA Programmes, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK, Co-Founder and Director, King's Entrepreneurship Lab, University of Cambridge, UK, Venture Partner, Uma Ventures, California, USA, Senior Consultant (Advisor), The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA , Advisory Board Member, Oxford Edge: Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Oxford, UK 

Kamiar Mohaddes is an expert in the macroeconomics of external shocks and sustainability at the University of Cambridge, where he is the Founding-Director of the Centre for Space, Earth and Energy, a new interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Director of the Global  a²Ô»å  at King’s College, Cambridge, where he co-founded and directs the . Over the last 4 years Kamiar has raised more than US$15 million to support research and innovation programmes, as well student activities at the University of Cambridge. Kamiar is also a Venture Partner at a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specialising in early-stage investments in high-growth technology companies. 

In addition to climate change and sustainability, Kamiar’s research covers energy economics, economics of the Middle East, and applied macroeconomics more broadly. He is among the top 1% authors globally in IDEAS/RePEc (based on last 10 years of publications). His articles have been published in a number of edited volumes (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge) as well as in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has also been covered in major international news outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. 

Kamiar has worked 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). He is a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and has previously served as a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada. He has worked closely with colleagues at these institutions to, for instance, develop tools to help examine and disentangle the size and speed of the transmission of different global, regional, and national macroeconomic shocks. 

Kamiar is 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 and Sustainability Leadership Programme. He has 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 has contributed to dozens of Executive Education programmes at Cambridge and beyond. 

Brought up in Sweden, Kamiar moved to England to study, initially for an undergraduate degree at Warwick and then moving to Cambridge to do an MPhil and PhD in economics as a . He's stayed in Cambridge ever since.  

Degrees

BSc in Economics from University of Warwick 

MPhil in Economics from University of Cambridge 

PhD in Economics from University of Cambridge

Honours

• , Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK 
• , The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford), University of Oxford, UK 
• Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar 

Major Awards and Prizes 

•  (the FT said “using artificial intelligence to merge climate models with financial data, the team has uncovered how environmental changes influence corporate and public borrowing costs, plus credit ratings and default risks, for more than 100 countries… the result is a road map for embedding environmental science into the financial systems that underpin the global economy”), Financial Times, 2025 
• , for work on “Overturning Consensus on the Country-Specific Economic Costs and Financial Risks of Climate Change”, University of Cambridge, 2026 
• We Create Human Alchemy Award (in appreciation of the ability to bring diverse people, disciplines, and perspectives together to spark new ideas, insights, opportunities, and powerful collaboration to move Cambridge Judge forward), Cambridge Judge Business School, 2026 

Specific Research interests 

Climate Change and Sustainability; Energy Economics; Applied Macroeconomics; Economics of Middle East; Entrepreneurship and Innovation