Molly Scott Cato

Professor of Finance at University of Roehampton

Speaker

Molly Scott Cato is a Professor of Green Economics at Roehampton University and speaks for the Green Party of England and Wales on Economy and Finance. She has expertise on climate finance, climate reparations and the carbon tax. She recently published a book on Sustainable Finance (Springer, 2022).

Between 2014 and 2020 Molly represented South West England and Gibraltar in the European Parliament. As a member of the Parliament’s Economics and Monetary Policy committee and the Parliament’s rapporteur on sustainable finance she worked on legislation to use the power of finance to address the climate and ecological emergencies. She was a co-legislator on regulations relating to mandatory disclosure and climate benchmarks.

Molly studied PPE at Oxford University and took a PhD in Economics from the University of Wales. She is an expert on resilient local economies, cooperatives and social enterprise, sustainable finance, monetary policy and tax policy.