Dr. Craig Mackenzie

Biography

Craig Mackenzie is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Business School, where he focuses on policy frameworks for financing nature restoration ecosystem services, with a particular emphasis on carbon removals. His research interests include trade in early modern Europe and he has held various non-executive advisory roles at organizations such as the Scottish Land Commission, Evenload Landscape Recovery, DEFRA, Woodland Carbon Code, and RSPB Scotland. Craig has a long career in asset management, having served as the head of sustainable investment at Friends Ivory Sime and Insight Scottish Widows, as well as the head of strategic asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management. These roles have contributed to shaping the development of the FTSE4Good, UN PRI GRI and he has served on boards such as IIGCC and UKSIF Accountability. Since his appointment as Senior Lecturer in 2008, Craig has set up the Centre for Business and Climate Change (now BCCaS) and helped launch MSc programmes in Carbon Management and Climate Change Finance Investment. He has been teaching climate and nature finance part-time since 2011.

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