Ben McNeil
Role:
Co-Founder & Data Scientist
Company:
Emmi
Bio:
Dr Ben McNeil is a climate scientist, co-founder and chief data-scientist at Emmi and adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of New South Wales.
Ben has over two decades in climate research starting as a post-doc at Princeton University at the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in the year 2001. Over the past 20 years, Ben has collaborated with many climate scientists and has experience in applying machine learning techniques to large climate data-sets in order to gain insights into carbon flows around the world.
In 2019, Ben co-founded Emmi, a carbon risk platform that allows investors to deeply understand present and future risks of any publicly listed company or investment portfolio by combining both financial and carbon data. The goal of Emmi is to empower financial markets to net-zero.