Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Valuation; environmental, social, and governance investing; natural capital accounting; capital markets; risk management; sustainable finance
Business and Climate Change
DBA, IE Business School, 2012; MBA, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, 2001; BA, University of Washington, Seattle, 1995
Charlie Donovan is principal economist at Impax Asset Management, a sustainability-focused investment firm managing approximately $50 billion across listed equities, fixed income, and private markets. He previously served as executive director of the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College Business School and academic director of Imperial’s MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance program. He was named professor of practice at Imperial College London in 2020. In the private sector, Charlie has been a clean-tech company cofounder and CFO. He was head of structuring and valuation for global power at BP plc and part of the team that launched BP Alternative Energy in 2005 with an $8 billion funding commitment. Charlie began his career as an energy policy analyst with the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration. He is coauthor and editor of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, now in its second edition. He is currently on the board of advisors at Riskthinking.ai, a leading climate risk analytics firm.