New energy initiative led by Kingsmill Bond set up by Ember | Ember

New energy initiative led by Kingsmill Bond set up by Ember

3 Feb 2025

Kingsmill Bond brings nearly 30 years of experience in finance, having held prominent roles at Deutsche Bank, Sberbank and Citibank in London, Hong Kong and Moscow. Following his distinguished career in investment banking, he worked at Carbon Tracker and RMI, where he established himself as a global authority on the clean energy revolution and its implications for financial markets and geopolitics.

Daan Walter brings extensive experience in clean energy analytics; before joining RMI, he co-founded and led McKinsey’s sustainable analytics unit, where he advised multiple governments and dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Sam Butler-Sloss is a talented analyst who has spent several years analysing cleantech trends at Carbon Tracker and RMI. At RMI, the team developed groundbreaking research such as the cleantech revolution, the battery domino effect, and peaking fossil fuel demand.

“This is a bold new initiative to accelerate the energy transition. Kingsmill and his team are energy heavyweights who will supercharge Ember’s work to demonstrate the speed of the transformation in energy to investors and decision-makers. The opportunities and risks the energy revolution presents are immense – and together Ember and the new team have the data and analytics to bring clarity to a noisy debate.”

“The team’s move to Ember underscores our position as the trusted hub for independent energy data and insights. Over the past five years, we’ve established ourselves as a world leader in advancing clean energy through targeted data products and thought-leading analysis. We’re excited to build on this foundation with the expertise and vision Kingsmill, Daan and Sam bring.”

This new initiative will combine Ember’s comprehensive data with the incoming team’s distinctive perspectives and methods to forecast energy trends. The team has a proven track record in forecasting cleantech adoption that uniquely positions them to guide investors, businesses and other key decision-makers through the clean energy revolution, and the many disruptions expected to unfold over the next five years.

“Amid political uncertainty, perceptions of the energy transition have been knocked, but the fundamentals are as powerful as ever. We plan to tell that story with the great data and analytics of Ember, and change the debate from pain to gain by 2030.”

About Ember

Ember is an independent energy think tank that uses data and policy to accelerate the clean energy transition around the world. It creates targeted data insights to advance policies that urgently shift the world to a clean, electrified energy future.

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