Utkarsh Akhouri Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Led MSCI Carbon Market's (formerly Trove Research) economic modeling team. We build forecast models that calculate Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACC) and Carbon Credit Price outlook for global voluntary and compliance emission reduction and removal projects including nature based solutions, carbon engineered removal, energy efficiency.

London And New Delhi

As a pivot to Climate Finance and Environmental Commodities, I worked for 2.5 years across Compliance and Voluntary Carbon Markets as an Economist, Product Manager and Strategic Advisor.• 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁: 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 - 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴I built and managed the North American Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and California Compliance Offset Carbon Market Intelligence product for a carbon market analytics firm cCarbon (www.ccarbon.info)• 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁: 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸As Carbon Market Research Manager, I worked on building the carbon markets and policy insights research product for a London based global carbon ratings and risk analytics firm BeZero Carbon.• 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁: 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀As a business and strategy advisor, I helped an early stage environmental commodities portfolio management firm Calculus Carbon secure seed funding at a very significant valuation. (calculuscarbon.com)

Vienna, Austria

In my dual role as COO and senior economist, I led Minpol’s strategic decision making & business development and managed its mineral intelligence and analytics team.As Chief Operating Officer, I was responsible for overseeing the functioning of all Project Deliverables and Implementation across all teams and all regions. I also design, implement new avenues for business operation and research network expansion. My responsibilities also include establishing policies that promote organisations culture and vision.Additionally, I continue to function as one of the leading experts in the field of Mineral Economics, Policy & Sustainability contributing directly to the billable projects of the organization. These projects and assignments include MIREU – Mining & Metallurgy Regions of EU• MIREU is a project sponsored under European Union Horizon 2020 Programme and aims to identify ways to ensure a sustainable supply of mineral raw materials to the EU and to promote investment, innovation and growth of the sector.• Representing and Leading the Minpol team in the Project Consortium for -- Developing ‘Social License to Operate’ (SLO) guideline framework for the EU Mining & Metallurgy Sector-- Strengthening Framework conditions for mineral raw materials exploitationDevelopment of Ukraine’s New Mining Legislative Code (Sub-Soil Code)• Government Project under the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine for recommending reforms in Ukrainian extractive sector in line with EU best practices .Development of Uzbekistan's New Mining Legislative Code (Sub-Soil Code)• Government Project, under the purview of the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development, for recommending reforms in Uzbekistan's extractive sector in line with EU best practices .

Delhi, India

I was responsible for the expansion of MinPol's network and client base in the Asia Pacific region. I was managing the operation of all teams in the region supporting the European Union Research Network, also planning and executing new products and service ventures as part of the organisation’s growth and diversification strategy.1. SCRREEN - Solution for Critical Raw Materials – A European Expert Network• Sponsored project under European Union Horizon 2020 Programme which aims to establish an EU Expert Network that covers the whole value chain for present and future Critical Raw Materials (CRMs)• I was leading various working groups for the preparation and delivery of report on “National Policies, Regulatory Frameworks and (voluntary) standards in Europe relevant to Critical Raw Material”2. MINRIS – Mineral Resource Intelligence Support, Desktop & Mobile Software ProductMINRIS is an IT product which provides information and analytics service to the Metals & Energy Sector• I was responsible for the overall MINRIS project conceptualisation, development & implementation. Functioning as head of product development and in-charge of developing revenue generation strategy, product promotion, marketing and public relations.3. MIREU – Mining & Metallurgy Regions of EU• MIREU is a project sponsored under European Union Horizon 2020 Programme and aims to identify ways to ensure sustainable supply of mineral raw materials to the EU and to promote investment, innovation and growth of the sector• I was Leading the Minpol team in the Project Consortium for developing -- Social License to Operate’ (SLO) guideline framework for the EU Mining & Metallurgy Sector-- Review of the applicable regulatory and policy conditions in MIREU Region inclusive EU States

Delhi, India

I was responsible for leading and managing various project teams and research sub-groups within the organisation to support important clientele including World Energy Council - Estonian Oil Shale Committee; Director-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission. 1. Comparative Taxation Study of selected countries to recommend resource allocation and royalty rate calculation measures for Oil shale industry in Estonia• Project in collaboration with Ernst & Young Baltic AS• Recommendations based on qualitative study report prepared under my leadership was accepted and implemented by World energy Council and Government of Estonia.2. MINLEX - Legal framework for mineral extraction and permitting procedures for exploration and exploitation in the EU• Project under DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission (EC) to identify and describe the legal framework governing the mineral extraction in the EU 28 Member States• I was part of the team which developed first-ever EU Mining Legislation and Permitting Procedure Database (Link of the Published Report Attached)3. MICA - Mineral Intelligence Capacity Analysis (http://www.mica-project.eu/) I was also involved in input to research publications for European Union - Raw Material Intelligence Capacity Platform (EU-RMICP)

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Responsible for developing Statistical Analytics & Forecasting Model for Global Clients in the field of Retail Banking, Insurance & HealthcareLogistic Regression Modelling for Risk Management in Retail Banking Credit Card Portfolios• Responsible for developing and updating the regression-based forecast model to predict quarterly Loss Given Default (LGD) for Credit Card Portfolios.

Master'S Degree, Climate Change Management & Finance

Core modules: Business Economics and Climate Change, Financial and Carbon Accounting, Climate Finance and Risk Management, Clean.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mining And Mineral Engineering

Master'S Degree, Financial Engineering