Former Chairman of Group G8 | Senior Policy Fellow for Energy and Mitigation at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
Bio
Neil Hirst is the Senior Policy Fellow for Energy and Mitigation at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. After being a government official in the UK, he was the Director for Technology and then the Direct for Global Dialogue at the International Energy Agency. Most recently he has been working with China’s Energy Research Institute on China’s role in international energy governance.
Mr Hirst has been the Energy Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington and the Chairman of the G8 Nuclear Safety Working Group. He has worked on energy finance on secondment to Goldman Sachs in New York, and undertaken consultancy for the World Bank.
He is the author of The Energy Conundrum; Climate Change, Global Technology, and the Tough Decisions we Have to Take.
Mr Hirst holds a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford and an MBA from Cornell.