Biography
Kamiar Mohaddes is an expert in the macroeconomics of climate change and sustainability at Cambridge University, where he is the Director of the climaTRACES Lab, a new interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Cambridge focusing on climate, nature, and sustainability.
Kamiar is also the Director of the Global Executive MBA programme at Cambridge and Fellow in Economics at King’s College, Cambridge, where he co-founded and direct the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). The E-Lab aims is to foster innovation and cultivate a community of entrepreneurial minds at the heart of the University of Cambridge, striving to be a pioneer in entrepreneurship and innovation education, learning, and research. The E-Lab achieves its purpose through a wide range of activities spanning both commercial and social ventures.
In addition to climate change and sustainability, Kamiar's research covers energy economics, innovation and entrepreneurship, economics of the Middle East, and applied macroeconomics more broadly. His articles have been published in a number of edited volumes as well as in leading academic journals, and have been covered in major international news outlets. His work has been cited extensively by policymakers, including by more than 25 members of the United States Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, the White House, Attorneys General of 22 U.S. States and the District of Columbia, as well as Chief Legal Officers of 9 Local Governments (U.S. cities and counties). In 2025, he received the Financial Times Award for Academic Research with Impact.
Kamiar also works 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 currently Senior Consultant at the World Bank, have been a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, and have previously served as a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada.
Kamiar obtained his PhD in economics from Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar.
