James Cameron

James Cameron is a founder and the non-executive Chairman of Climate Change Capital, representing the firm at the highest levels of business and government.

In addition to his role at CCC, James serves as a member of GE's ecomagination board, Pepsico UK's advisory board, is chairman of the World Economic Forum's Agenda Council on Climate Change and is a trustee member of the UK Green Building Council and of the Carbon Disclosure Project.

James is also a member of the UK Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group, an advisor to the Climate Bonds Initiative and was a member of the Green Investment Bank Commission.

Prior to CCC, James was Counsel to Baker & McKenzie and was the founder and the head of their Climate Change and Clean Energy Practice. He has spent much of his legal career working on climate change matters, including negotiating the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol as an adviser to the Alliance of Small Island States. As a barrister he appeared in several of the leading cases in international and environmental law.

James is also a member of Oxfam's development board, a senior advisor to the Climate Group, chairman of China Dialogue, a member of the development board at the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and a member of the High Level International Advisory Committee to the World Congress on Justice, Governance, and Law for Environmental Sustainability.

James has held academic positions at Cambridge, London, Bruges and Sydney and is currently affiliated with the Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy.