Lord Stern is an IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair, Grantham Research Institute at LSE. He has held posts at other UK & overseas universities and as Chief Economist at both the EBRD and the World Bank. He was Head, UK Government Economic Service 2003-2007, and produced the Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was President of the Royal Economics Society (2018-2019,) President of the British Academy (July 2013-2017,) and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014). He was knighted for services to economics (2004), made a life peer (2007), and appointed Companion of Honour for services to economics, international relations, and tackling climate change in 2017. His latest book is Standing Up for a Sustainable World: Voices of Change (with Claude Henry and Johan Rockström) Edward Elgar, 2020. He is a “Friend” of the UNFCCC COP26.