Dr Michael Molitor, Founder, CarbonShift Pty Ltd

Michael Molitor is the founder of CarbonShift Pty Ltd, an Australian company with a focus on helping clients develop, implement and communicate robust strategies to respond to the challenge of a climate system modified by human activity. CarbonShift, based in Sydney, works with many leading companies and organisations to deliver carbon management outcomes that both protect and enhance shareholder value and stakeholder relationships.

Dr. Molitor served as Senior Advisor on Climate Change at McKinsey & Company and, during 2000-2003, was the global leader of Climate Change Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers based in London. In these roles his primary activities were in assessing the risks and opportunities presented by climate change to corporate performance, with particular emphasis on the cost of carbon emissions abatement.

Before entering the business world, Michael was a leading Earth Systems academic for 10 years. Dr. Molitor was a member of the faculty at the University of California, San Diego and the Climate Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In this capacity he served as an external advisor to BP on the development of the company’s climate change strategy and attended all of the United Nations negotiations on climate change.  

Dr. Molitor earned his PhD from Cambridge University, England and spent 3 years at Harvard University on a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral fellowship.  After receiving his B.A. from the University of Michigan, he went on to complete a joint M.Sc. between the London School of Economics and Political Science and Imperial College (University of London).

Dr. Molitor has also held academic appointments at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. He served as Science Advisor on the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs in the US, UK, Germany, Canada and Australia.