Ajay Gambhir

Ajay Gambhir is Director of Systemic Risk Assessment at ASRA. He is responsible for advising on ASRA’s approach to science, evidence and data, its approach to risk assessment and the broader stakeholder landscape around systemic risk. Prior to joining ASRA, Gambhir worked on climate change for 17 years, both in the UK Government and at Imperial College London. As a Department of Environment official over the period 2006-8, he was one of the architects of the 2008 UK Climate Change Act, the world’s first national framework legislation on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He also led on the design of the UK Climate Change Committee, the Government’s official advisor on meeting carbon reduction targets and adapting to climate change. He then served as the Team Leader for EU and International Climate Change Economics at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change over the period 2009-10. As an academic researcher at Imperial College London over the period 2010-2023, Gambhir led and par