Jane Ellis

Jane Ellis is Head of Climate Policy at Climate Analytics and is based in Berlin. She directs the team's work on developing 1.5°C compatible pathways, energy system transformation, fossil fuel phaseout strategies at international, national and sub-national level, and tracking and assessing climate action at these levels.

Jane is an internationally-recognised climate expert with more than 30 years of both broad and deep experience in international climate policy, mitigation, carbon markets, climate finance and transparency. She led the OECD/IEA’s Climate Change Expert Group for 15 years, the OECD’s Research Collaborative for Tracking Finance for Climate Action for 9 years, and the OECD’s contributions to the G7 Carbon Market Platform for 5 years. Her work has assessed mitigation options and policies in key sectors (e.g., electricity, industry) and systems (e.g., food), and for a wide variety of countries. The results of these analyses have influenced international climate negotiations on carbon markets, climate finance and transparency. Jane has co-written four books, more than 60 papers, several peer-reviewed articles, and contributed to many other reports. She was nominated to the CDM Executive Board’s Methodology Panel in 2002-06 and the Advisory Committee for the Initiative on Climate Action Transparency in 2017-19. Her work was recognised for contributing to the IPCC’s 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Jane has a masters in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London (UK) and an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, Resources and the Environment from York University (UK).