William Hynes
Senior Climate Change Economist at the World Bank.
William Hynes is a Senior Climate Change Economist at the World Bank, an Honorary Professor of UCL and an External Applied Complexity Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He works on integrating climate issues into the Bank’s macroeconomic analysis and dialogue in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Prior to this, as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary General and Head of New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) at OECD, he developed research programs on systems thinking, anticipation and resilience, new analytical tools and techniques and new economic and growth narratives. His publications and research are broad and interdisciplinary with a recent focus on green growth, systemic resilience and neuroscience inspired policy. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University, was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics and is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. William Hynes is Co-Director of the World Bank’s Coalition for Capacity on Climate Action (C3A) Program.
