Biography

Matt Scott is a leading global authority on greening finance and leads the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment based at Oxford University. Matt previously established and led the Bank of England’s Climate Hub, including setting out the formative physical, transition and liability framework for climate risk, and played a key role in mobilising the Central Bank and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).

Matt also led the design and delivery of the UK’s landmark 2019 Green Finance Strategy, helped to establish and co-chair the G20’s Green Finance Study Group and led the development of the UK Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) Disclosure Framework. Prior to his career in green finance, Matt studied Physics, worked in environmental science and, on graduation from Stanford Business School, co-founded a green venture bringing solar lighting to off-grid villages in emerging markets.