MrAhmed AlJameel

Ahmed is a PhD researcher in energy and climate policy at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) at Imperial College London, and a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. His research interests focus designing climate policy towards achieving net-zero energy transition in hard-to-abate sectors, with a particular focus on how market-based mechanisms and complementary policies can support sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and lower-carbon aviation fuel (LCAF).

Ahmed is a lead author of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) methodology report on carbon dioxide removal technologies and carbon capture, utilisation and storage for national greenhouse-gas inventories. He is also a nominated expert in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Roster of Expert (Index code: UN-36620-K8F5), participating in the Technical Expert Review (TER) of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement.

Prior to his academic career, Ahmed worked in the Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia at the Sustainability & Climate Change Deputyship. He has participated in the UN climate negotiations as a lead negotiator for Arab Group in COP26 and COP27 in climate finance agenda items as well as the IPCC negotiations as a government reviewer and a negotiator, as well as advising the board in the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Ahmed was a Research Fellow at OPEC, within the Environmental Matters Unit. His research examined carbon-pricing instruments and their implications for global energy demand and energy prices, combining quantitative and qualitative analysis of price responses to supply and demand shocks and considering the social and political implications for energy-producing developing countries.

Ahmed holds a BSc in Chemistry from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, a Postgraduate Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow, and an MSc in Green Chemistry and Sustainable Industrial Technology from the University of York, and he is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Environmental Policy from Imperial College London.