On 31 May, the Smith School team gathered with alumni, advisors and more at Lady Margaret Hall to celebrate the School's successes and impact.

Our Director, Mette Morsing, opened the event by celebrating some of impressive achievements of the Smith School, from alumni being featured in Forbes' 30 under 30 to the number of papers already published in Science and Nature (11 this year so far!). 

We heard about the latest research happening across the School:

• Dr Michael Clark: Sustainable Food Solutions 
• Francois Lafond: Macroeconomic Impact of the Net Zero Transition 
• Dr Ben Franta: Climate Litigation Lab 
• Alexis McGivern: Net Zero Governance and Accountability 
• Dr Sugandha Srivastav: Breaking Contracts to get to Net Zero Energy

We had the pleasure to hear from Dr Emilien Ravigné delivering a short talk on: Is green technical change skill-biased? A new growth accounting framework to disentangle the directions of technical change

Followed by Dr Hassan Aftab Sheikh talking about his research on Air pollution asset-level source detection in South Asia.

We then heard from our alumni and learned a bit more about their current roles:

• Lucy Lyons, Chief Executive, Kestrix
• William Richards, ESG Credit Analyst, Aviva Investors
• Lauren McCormack, Climate Strategy Analyst, Legal and General Investment Management
• Irshaad Kathrada, Climate Consultant (including to the South African Government)
• Alp Nassi Katalan, Independent Venture Advisor (climate tech investing)

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