Our Team

 

Justin Macinante, Adrian Jackson, Navraj Ghaleigh

Justin Macinante, BSc, LLB, MEL(Hon), PhD - post doctoral researcher in networking of carbon markets using distributed technologies, University of Edinburgh Law School; including involvement with CO2RE GGR Hub team; UNFCCC-UoE partnership; also involved in project developing methodologically sound tool for counting GHG emissions impacts of export credit agency supported coal development projects. Over thirty-five years as a legal practitioner in various capacities in private and public sectors in Australia, Papua New Guinea, United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland, including consultant to World Bank on networking carbon markets initiative; fifteen years' carbon markets experience as legal counsel for project developer, carbon fund manager and advisor, and carbon market trader.

 Adrian Jackson, MSc(Hon) - Research Architect with two decades experience in high performance, parallel, and novel computing; leadership experience in a number of research areas, including simulating complex systems that range from CFD models of aerofoils in turbulent environments to simulation of Tokamaks for nuclear fusion; distributing computations across mixed architectures that range from service oriented commercial (Cloud) platforms to scaling up for Exascale computing; and working with diverse applications and their users who need to port their codes to ARCHER, the UK National HPC Service hosted by EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. In previous work he collaborated with academic and industry partners to build distributed data systems, Grids, to enable collaborative projects to efficiently exploit computational resources and share data. He is an expert in programming parallel and high performance computing systems which ensures he can match the architecture of problems to be solved to the architecture of the platform designed and used in the solution to ensure maximum performance and efficient scalability. Adrian leads a number of industry collaborative projects, such as the Intel Parallel Computing Centre (IPCC), and is currently the architect of a European funded research project designing new computer system to exploit novel NVRAM memory technology (Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory). 

Navraj Ghaleigh, LLB, LLM – barrister-at-laws, Senior Lecturer in Climate Law; Director of Alumni Relations; Programme Director, LLM in Global Environment and Climate Change, Law School, University of Edinburgh; Chair-designate of Climate Strategies; leading role in the CO2RE GGR Hub team; founding advisor to the climate litigation philanthropy, FILE; member of various scholarly executive and management committees; given evidence to numerous government, parliamentary, and public committees; extensive engagement with major global CSO/NGO actors. Published extensively across the field of climate law for over 15 years, engaging with both scholarly and legal practitioner networks.