Matthew Huxham

Matthew Huxham is a Principal with CPI’s Energy Finance team. At CPI, Matthew is co-leading the team’s work on “transition risk” arising from the transformative impacts of action on climate change. Matt was the lead author of the report Understanding the impact of a low carbon transition on South Africa published on 26 March 2019. Since then, he has led CPI’s engagements with central banks, regulators and governments to expand the use of CPI’s analysis outside of South Africa. During his four years at CPI, Matthew has worked with foundation, public sector and private sector clients across a wide range of topics including: policy, regulation and investment structure designed to lower the cost of capital for renewable energy investment; the impact of decarbonisation strategies on the cement sector and the options for credit rating agencies to improve their ESG offering. A list of authored and co-authored publications is set out below.

Prior to joining CPI, Matthew was a lead analyst in the EMEA Utilities team at Moody’s, where he was responsible for credit ratings and research for a portfolio of UK and Irish power, gas and water utilities. In recent years, Matthew was also a senior advisor to the UK Government as it sought to design and implement a major restructuring of the British electricity market whilst attracting new investors in renewable and nuclear power plants. Matthew holds Master’s degrees in Modern History and Modern Languages from University College London and the University of Oxford, respectively. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.