Nick Mabey has been working for over thirty years to design and shape a world that reconciles human needs and natural limits

Nick is a co-founder & director of E3G and has served as its CEO since 2006.

E3G is one of the world’s most influential climate change think tanks, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, London and Washington DC. To better manage E3G’s growth & external impact he revised his role to co-CEO in 2022.

Nick advises governments and other organisations on the politics and policy of climate change. He appears regularly in the global media and is active on twitter @Mabeytweet

He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee honours list in 2022 for services to climate change and support to the UK COP 26 Presidency.

Nick is founder & Chair of London Climate Action Week, one of the world’s largest climate festivals. He has several independent appointments including as a London Sustainable Development Commissioner.

Nick has previously worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, UK Foreign Office, WWF-UK, London Business School and the UK electricity industry. As an academic he was lead author of “Argument in the Greenhouse”; one of the first books examining the economics of climate change .

He originally trained as a mechanical engineer specialising in energy systems. He shifted to work on policy and political issues at MIT when he realised that this was the critical path to creating and deploying sustainable solutions at scale.

Nick lives in London with his family which is ideal for indulging his passion for history and urban design. He relaxes by walking and is a long time practitioner of Chinese martial arts; he currently studies with Master Wang Hai Jun.

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  • CV

    Employment

    2006 onwards CEO E3G, Third Generation Environmentalism

    2002 – 2005 Senior Advisor, UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (PMSU)

    1999 – 2002 Team Leader, Environment Policy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK

    1996 – 1999 Head of Economics and Development Policy, Worldwide Fund for Nature-UK

    1993 – 1996 Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School

    1991 -1993 Research Assistant, Energy Lab, MIT, USA

    1990 – 1991 Lead Analyst and Negotiator, Electricity Market Regulation, PowerGen UK

    1987– 1991 Professional Engineering Development, G.E.C.-Alstom Energy Systems Ltd.

    Education

    1993-1995 MPhil, Environmental Economics, University College London, UK

    1990-1992 Master of Science, Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    1987-1989 BEng Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK

  • Selected Appointments

    Current

    “Friend of COP 26” advising the UK COP 26 Presidency

    Founder & Steering Group Chair, London Climate Action Week

    Commissioner, London Sustainable Development Commission

    Trustee, Ashden - Climate Solutions in Acton

    Member, FCDO External Strategy Challenge Panel

    Member, World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Energy Transitions

    Previous

    Senior Advisor, Expert Working Group on Climate-related Security Risks, SIPRI

    Board Member, EU-ASE European Alliance to Save Energy

    Member, Advisory Council of Infrastructure-UK, HM Treasury

    Member, Advisory Council of European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power

    Member, Green Investment Bank Commission independent commission to design a UK Green Investment Bank

    Co-Chair, East-West Institute International Task Force on Preventative Diplomacy

    Member, UK Green Fiscal Commission, Policy Studies Institute

    Member, Green Globe Taskforce, independent advisors to Robin Cook, UK Foreign Secretary