Luke Hatton is a PhD researcher based across Imperial College London’s Grantham Institute and Centre for Environmental Policy. His work focuses on assessing the barriers to the flows of energy investment towards developing countries and improving their depiction in energy systems models. He leads the UK FCDO-funded Climate Compatible Growth program’s modelling efforts on cost of capital for energy technologies and has been involved with projects in Zambia and South Africa. He works with the Energy Investment Unit of the International Energy Agency as an independent consultant, including co-leading on their cost of capital, sources of finance and energy R&D spending workstreams. He has also worked directly with a number of other international organizations on energy transition topics, including IRENA, UNIDO, and the World Bank. He received a MEng in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford and is currently finishing up his PhD in Energy Economics at Imperial College London, where he is a member of the Grantham Institute’s Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet program.