S2: Macroeconomics & Climate Change - COVID19 - a podcast by Abimbola Johnson and Ayo Afolabi

Welcome to our COVID-19 Macroeconomics and Climate Change episode. Ayo and OJ have a talented panel lined up to dig into the UK and Global economic and environmental impact of COVID-19 related policies from the breadth of their work experience and specialists. They will delve into monetary and fiscal policy, trade, comparisons between the UK’s response and the approaches taken by international governments as well as a consideration of matters from the perspective of environmental impact and climate change

Funmi Oyeneyin:

Funmi has over 7+ years of experience working as In-House Counsel within investment/asset management and M&A firms in London and New York (where she also qualified as a New York Attorney). She started her career at EY, in International Tax Services, where she qualified as Chartered Accountant. Over her career she has led multiple international transactions and projects, advising on multi-jurisdictional legal, strategic, and related tax matters.

Alongside this, Funmi started a journey to entrepreneurship, with a small luxury homewares business.

Carl Hazeley:

Carl Hazeley is the VP Content at Finimize, the world's largest and most engaged finance community, where he heads the firm's team of analysts who produce jargon-free and snackable financial insights for Finimize's more than 800,000 members globally. Carl has over six years of experience as an equity research analyst, previously at Goldman Sachs, where he led the firm's coverage of European Internet stocks including. After leaving Goldman Sachs in 2017, he launched Shoptalk Europe – part of Shoptalk, the world's largest retail and e-commerce conference – which was sold to Hyve Group in December 2019. Carl is also a Board Advisor at Community Growth Ventures. He graduated from UCL where he read Genetics.

Sam Bright

Sam is a lawyer at ClientEarth, a legal NGO using the power of the law to protect the planet. He leads ClientEarth’s legal campaign against highly polluting coal plants and mines across Europe and beyond, for which he was recently named a ‘Rising Star’ at the British Legal Awards. He has degrees from the University of Oxford and University College London, and before joining ClientEarth worked at a major international law firm.

Matthew Birch

Matthew is a UK and European patent attorney in the Engineering & Tech team at Carpmaels & Ransford LLP with over a decade of experience in intellectual property. He has a particular interest in the medical and renewable energy sectors. Matthew's work involves drafting and prosecuting patent applications for companies ranging from UK startups to large multinationals. He regularly represents his clients in attacking and defending patents in oral opposition and appeal hearings at the European Patent Office in Munich, Berlin and The Hague. He also advises on infringement of intellectual property rights and freedom to operate, as well as handling registered and unregistered design rights and providing litigation support to the Dispute Resolution team at Carpmaels. Matthew entered the intellectual property profession in 2009 after graduating from the University of Bristol with a first class MSci degree in Physics, specialising in condensed matter physics and nanotechnology. His MSci research sparked his interest in renewable energy and investigated the use of pulsed laser deposition in the synthesis of ZnO nanorods and the effect of the nanorods on the efficiency of inorganic solar cells. Matthew is an accomplished trumpeter and violinist and won national competitions as a solo performer during his teenage years. He is also a keen marathon runner and Ironman triathlete.

Alice Ritchie

Alice Ritchie is the climate change lead for the Country Land and Business Association, working with farmers and landowners across England and Wales to create sustainable food production systems and lobbying the government on their behalf. She moved to the UK in 2018 after working for the New Zealand government on net-zero legislation and emissions trading, and is an NZ-qualified barrister and solicitor, specialising in environmental law. A law degree doesn’t quite cut it in the science-heavy field of climate change, so Alice is currently midway through an MSc in global food security from the University of Edinburgh.

Joe Murphy

Joe is an Asset Manager at Temporis Capital which specialises in Renewable Energy, specifically Onshore Wind and Hydro. Before joining Temporis, he trained as Chartered Accountant at KPMG, starting in the Banking Audit department before moving to the Transaction Modelling team.

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