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- —David Blood, Senior Partner and Co-Founder
Duncan Austin
Partner
Duncan Austin covers the Global Consumer sector at Generation. Prior to joining Generation, Mr. Austin was a Senior Economist at the World Resources Institute ("WRI") in Washington D.C. His main area of work was in devising methods to integrate environmental risks and opportunities into equity valuation frameworks. He was also a founding member of WRI's Green Power Market Development Group, a collaboration of 12 leading US corporations and WRI that is dedicated to the development of corporate markets for green power. Mr. Austin also conducted policy research on climate change, renewable energy and emissions markets and has been a frequent speaker on these topics at conferences. In 2000, he received the Moskowitz Prize for outstanding research in the field of socially responsible investing. Before joining WRI, Mr. Austin was employed as an economist in the United Kingdom Department of Environment in the Environment Protection Economics Division.
Mr. Austin earned a M.S. Degree (Distinction) in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University College London and a B.A. Honors Degree (First class) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St. Hugh's College, Oxford University.