Professor Michael Wilkins

Michael is Executive Director and Professor of Practice at the Centre For Climate Finance And Investment at Imperial College Business School. Until recently he was a Senior Research Fellow for Sustainable Finance at S&P Global Ratings and a Visiting Lecturer in sustainable finance at Cambridge University Judge Business School. 

Michael is a senior sustainable finance professional with 30 years experience in sustainable finance, corporate and infrastructure credit analysis, project finance, structured finance and carbon markets. He is a Certified Credit Analyst (S&P/NYU), holds an Executive MBA (Bayes Business School) and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Carbon Finance & Analytics (London Business School). He also holds a BA (Joint Hons) in Modern Languages from Bristol University. 

From 2016-21 he was a member of the Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and remains on the GARP Sustainability & Climate Risk Certification Advisory Committee. He is an executive team member of the UK Centre for the Greening of Finance & Investment (CGFI) and the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI). Michael has both executive management and non-executive board experience as well as a long record of public speaking, publishing and guest lecturing on sustainable finance, climate change, project finance and credit risk analysis. He is a recognised practitioner in business development and external communications. His specialities include corporate and project finance credit analysis, sustainable finance, carbon markets, structured finance, environmental and climate risk research, team management, budgeting, strategic planning, acquisition integration and product development.