ABOUT US

One of InfluenceMap's core programs, LobbyMap is the world’s leading platform measuring corporate climate policy engagement. It provides an independent, data-driven assessment of how the world’s largest companies and their industry associations are influencing policy and regulations needed to transition the global economy towards zero emissions.

LobbyMap was initiated in the run up to the Paris Agreement in 2015 to address a significant gap in the understanding of corporate climate impact. Since then it has grown to track and assess 1000+ of the world's largest companies, along with 300+ of their key industry associations, on a weekly basis.

The concept of a 'carbon policy footprint' or 'Scope 4 emissions' is now a firmly established part of the investor agenda on climate governance. LobbyMap's content feeds into change-making processes within investors, corporations, civil society, the media and legal strategies - all aimed at facilitating the policy and regulations critically needed to address the climate crisis.

 

LobbyMap - Ending Corporate Opposition to Climate Policy

The Team

Charlie joined InfluenceMap in January 2025 as an Analyst based in Toronto. His work involves assessing the climate policy engagement of Canadian corporations and industry associations. Charlie holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, where his research focused on the climate policy behavior of electric utilities and automakers.

As an Analyst at InfluenceMap, Mariana assesses the climate policy engagement of corporations and industry associations. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in December 2024, Mariana studied Agricultural Engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), focusing her research on sustainable agricultural systems and environmental policies related to rural development.

Ed has led InfluenceMap's research on lobbying and corporate influence (LobbyMap) since 2017, having joined the company in 2015. Working with a team of dedicated analysts, Ed manages InfluenceMap's system for tracking and assessing the climate change lobbying of world's largest 400 industrial companies and their key trade associations. He represents the LobbyMap to InfluenceMap's key stakeholders in the finance, corporate, civil society and policymaker sectors. Before InfluenceMap, Ed completed a Masters at the London School of Economics.

Lucca joined InfluenceMap in 2021 after completing an MSc in Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy at King's College London, and writing her thesis on the social implications of biofuel policies on smallholder farmers in India. At InfluenceMap, Lucca leads our transport workstream, assessing corporate advocacy from the global auto, aviation and shipping sectors on climate-related policy.

Max joined InfluenceMap in October 2023 and works as an Analyst on the LobbyMap workstream. As part of our Australia team, he analyzes and scores national corporate climate policy engagement. Max holds a combined BA in Political Science and Text Technology and Computational Linguistics and an interdisciplinary MA in World Studies: Orders, Politics, Cultures from Bielefeld University in Germany.

Fumi joined InfluenceMap in April 2024 after completing her MSci and PhD in Physics at Imperial College London. Her research focused on the midlatitude atmosphere-ocean interaction in a changing climate. At InfluenceMap, she works as an Analyst assessing corporate lobbying on climate policy as part of our Japan team, with a particular focus on the fossil fuel sector.

Prior to joining InfluenceMap in November 2020, Tom completed his MSc in Environment and Development at Lancaster University, At InfluenceMap, Tom leads our work stream on the ‘Energy Transition’, in the Fossil Fuel Team, focusing on corporate advocacy from the oil and gas sector on policies related to the energy transition, such as decarbonization and hydrogen.

As a Senior Analyst, Karin researches and assesses Japanese corporate engagement with climate change and energy policy. She joined InfluenceMap in 2021 and holds a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Robert coordinates InfluenceMap's advocacy work, driving consensus on the importance of corporate policy engagement and ambitious climate regulation in the finance sector. This involves making use of InfluenceMap's database, expertise and stakeholder network to make the case for robust and binding regulation. Robert joined InfluenceMap in June 2024 with experience as a policy advisor in central and local government in the UK. He holds an MSc in Economics and Governance from Leiden University in The Hague.

Leo joined InfluenceMap in September 2022 as an Analyst. He holds a BA in Environmental Analysis and Organizational Studies from Pitzer College, where he wrote his thesis on the political theory behind trade associations and their engagement with environmental regulations. Leo also interned at the World Resources Institute’s Center for Sustainable Business. As an Analyst at InfluenceMap he currently analyzes the auto sector’s engagement with environmental policy.

Monica leads the InfluenceMap content development and JETI engagement efforts from the Tokyo office with strategic partners in the non-profit, policymaking, finance, media and corporate sectors based in Japan and Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in 2020, she conducted research on energy policy at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). Monica holds a Master’s in Environmental Policy and Energy from Sciences Po, a Masters of Law in International Relations from Peking University, and a BA in Environment and Information Studies from Keio University.

Georgia joined InfluenceMap in April 2024 as an Analyst in the Fossil Fuels team. Before this, she completed an M.Sc. in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds, writing her dissertation on post-growth dynamics in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. She also holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from Lancaster University. In her role at InfluenceMap, she assesses global corporate entities' engagement with climate change policy, focusing primarily on the oil and gas sector. She will also support work on the Methane Platform, tracking the impact of corporate engagement on global methane policy development.

Emilia is a Research Manager on InfluenceMap's US team, focusing on climate policy developments within the power sector. Emilia joined InfluenceMap in May 2021 after working on energy and global philanthropy research projects with Acadia Center and Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, and has a joint Bachelor’s & Master’s degree in Public Policy from Rutgers University's Bloustein School.

Muhammad joined InfluenceMap in December 2024 as an Analyst. He holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy Management from the University of Queensland, where his work focused on emission accounting for sustainable transport, particularly for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics. Leveraging his expertise in emission accounting and sustainable transportation, Muhammad is part of the Transport Team, focusing on corporate climate change policies in Indonesia.

Thomas joined InfluenceMap in January 2025. As an Analyst, he tracks and analyzes climate policy engagement by corporations and trade associations, with a focus on the EU. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Thomas earned his MSc in International Relations at the London School of Economics and BA in History and International Relations from King’s College, London.

Isabella joined InfluenceMap as and Analyst in January 2023. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), and in her final year, she specialized in issues of environmental and social injustice on the African continent. In her role as an Analyst, Isabella scores companies based on their engagement and interaction with climate policy. This entails vigorous research and scrutiny of various organizational reports, media outlets and disclosures – the successful pursuit of which allows her to produce scores based on our bespoke methodology.

As a Senior Analyst, Sofia researches the lobbying activities of the global oil and gas sector. She also focuses on corporate policy influence over carbon removal and negative emissions technologies such as CCS and DAC. She holds a Master’s in International History from Columbia University and LSE, and a Master’s in Development Studies from the IIT Madras.

Julia joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in December 2024. As part of our Transport team, she assesses the Brazilian corporate sector's engagement with climate policies. Julia holds a BA in Economics from the State University of Campinas, where her monograph examined the relationship between the food industry and climate change. She also brings professional experience from the renewable energy sector.

Shuhei joined InfluenceMap in November 2023 as an Analyst after completing a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at the University of Manchester and writing his dissertation on the Levelling Up agenda with educational poverty in the UK. Within the Japan team at InfluenceMap, he assesses the policy engagement activities of Japanese corporations and industry associations on climate-related or energy policy, with a particular focus on the transport, automotive sector.

Federico joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in November 2023. As part of the corporate climate lobbying team, he mainly focuses on US climate policies and analyses the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations in relation to them. Federico holds a Licenciatura (BA) degree in International Relations from Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina). Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Federico worked at the Strategic Affairs Secretariat of the Argentine Presidency, where he advised on issues of international politics related to conflicts, elections, and industry developments.

Méabh joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in April 2024 after earning a Master’s in Business Analytics from Fairfield University, where she wrote her capstone on corporate emissions reporting. She has a BA in Law and Accounting from the University of Limerick. At InfluenceMap, Méabh works as an Analyst in the sustainable finance team, tracking the policy engagement of financial institutions and their industry associations.

Jack joined InfluenceMap in August 2022 as an Analyst. He works across our Australia and Oil/Gas teams, where he tracks and assesses corporate engagement on climate-related policy. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Jack worked as a Research Consultant with The Institute for Sustainable Futures. He holds a BA in Political Science from the Australian National University and an MA in Regenerative Economics from Schumacher College.

Reina works on evaluating wide range of Japanese corporate and financial institution's policy engagement on climate change and sustainable finance policy in Japan. She also leads on engagement with investors, corporates and policy-makers. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in 2021, she worked for Sumitomo Forestry as an associate business planner and conducted research to design new business towards decarbonized society and regional revitalization. She holds a BA in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia.

As Korea Program Manager, Sejin manages research and engagement regarding the climate policy engagement of South Korean companies. She also leads the assessment of South Korean financial institutions’ engagement activities on climate finance. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in October 2021, she conducted research on sustainability transformations and geopolitics at Linköping University in Sweden. Sejin holds a double BA in Sociology and in Spanish Language and Literature from Korea University and an MSc in Human Ecology from Lund University.

Tom joined InfluenceMap in January 2025 as an Analyst. As part of the Transport team, he scores automotive corporations and their industry associations based on their engagement and interactions with climate policy. His focus is on policies and corporations within the EU. Prior to joining, he completed a B.Sc. in Geography at the University of Bristol — his dissertation explored the prospect of rewilding Dartmoor National Park.

As a Senior Analyst, Gyeong Jeong researches and assesses Korean corporate engagement with climate change policies and energy transition. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Gyeong Jeong worked as a regulatory researcher on chemical and product regulations. Gyeong Jeong holds a double BA in Chinese Language and Literature and Business Administration from Korea University and MSc in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University.

Mohammed joined InfluenceMap in January 2022 as an Analyst, tracking and analyzing the lobbying activities of corporations in the US. Before joining InfluenceMap, Mo completed a B.Sc. in Physics with Astrophysics from Queen Mary, University of London.

Kat joined InfluenceMap in January 2023. She spent her education studying the intersection of social and environmental issues, earning her Master’s degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. At InfluenceMap, Kat works as a Senior Analyst with a particular focus on the Information Technology sector’s engagement on climate policy. She also contributes to InfluenceMap’s expanding platform covering United States policy at federal and state levels.

Krishan joined InfluenceMap in January 2025 as an Analyst on the biodiversity team. His work focuses on analysing and evaluating corporate engagement with biodiversity and nature policy across a range of different sectors. Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Krishan completed an M.Sc. in Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford. He also holds a BA in Politics and Spanish from Durham University.

Venetia joined InfluenceMap in 2020 and leads the Europe team and directs the Latin America strategy in assessing corporate engagement on climate change policy. Venetia holds a Bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from the University of Leeds and a MSc in Environment, Politics and Society from UCL.

Rebecca leads on InfluenceMap's methodology development and governance. She also manages emerging areas of LobbyMap analysis on the financial sector and on nature-related policy engagement. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in 2019, Rebecca completed an MPhys degree at the University of Oxford, where she specialized in the physics of atmospheres and oceans.

As Director, Ben leads InfluenceMap's research on Energy, Mining and Transport, analyzing global corporate lobbying on climate regulations. Before InfluenceMap, Ben interned and worked for the UNFCCC's Executive Secretary's Office, including at COP25, alongside multiple other think tanks. Ben holds an MA in Public Policy from Central European University & IBEI, graduating top of his class, and a first-class BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of York.

Béa joined InfluenceMap in February 2024 after completing her MSc Climate Change and Finance from the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation delved into the conceptualization and implementation of the Just Transition by public development banks. At InfluenceMap she works as an Analyst in the transport team, assessing the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations in the aviation sector.

Jake leads InfluenceMap’s data analysis across multiple streams of work. This includes InfluenceMap’s ongoing research into how digital media advertising influences the climate debate, as well as InfluenceMap's analysis of the automotive sectors' vehicle production plans and emissions. Jake has also developed tools to help automate aspects of InfluenceMap’s research process, such as the data gathering for our ongoing analysis of lobbying and corporate influence. Before joining InfluenceMap, Jake completed an integrated master’s course in Physics at the University of Sussex.

Ciara is a Senior Analyst at InfluenceMap, and leads our Investor Research work stream. She works on assessing corporate climate lobbying reviews, and producing shareholder resolution investor briefings. Ciara also leads our mining work stream, with a focus on critical raw material supply chains. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in December 2021, Ciara completed her BSc in Geography at Newcastle University.

Jennifer is a Senior Analyst working across InfluenceMap’s Europe and Biodiversity teams. Her work focuses primarily on assessing the corporate lobbying activities of the agricultural and consumer staples sector. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in 2023, she completed her degree in Sustainable Development with Geography and University of Edinburgh.

Kendra is the Director of Projects at InfluenceMap and leads the organization's research in the U.S. Kendra joined InfluenceMap in 2020 after earning her Master’s in Sustainable Development from University College London. She has a degree in International Relations and English and completed a U.S. Fulbright fellowship in South Africa.

Faye has been a member of the InfluenceMap team since 2018, when she started as an intern while completing her MA at King's College London. Faye is now a Program Manager at InfluenceMap, managing our work streams on 'Oil and Gas' and 'Digital Media and Advertising'.

Da Hyun joined InfluenceMap in October 2024 as an Analyst after completing a BSc in Politics and Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Within the Korea team, she analyzes the policy engagement activities of Korean corporates and industry associations on climate policy.

Samantha joined InfluenceMap's Australia team as an Analyst in November 2024. She holds a master’s degree in International Relations, specializing in International Diplomacy and Trade, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Monash University. Samantha’s academic expertise underpins her work at InfluenceMap, where she evaluates the climate policy engagement of Australia’s leading companies and industry associations at both the federal and state levels. She contributes to the growth of the LobbyMap platform by communicating these critical insights on Australia's climate policy engagement landscape to key investor, corporate, and policymaker stakeholders.

Rodolfos coordinates the development of InfluenceMap's internal research tools, focusing on speeding up research processes, tracking of the LobbyMap corporate universe, and enhancing data quality control. This involves alternating his focus between the research and technical teams as needed, either developing tools or analysing corporate engagement with EU climate policies. Rodolfos joined InfluenceMap in May 2021 after completing his MSc in Public Policy at University College London, having previously studied Computer Engineering at Coventry University.

Filipe joined InfluenceMap in January 2025 as an Analyst, where he assesses corporate engagement with climate policy as part of the Europe team, focusing on the European corporate sector.

Prior to joining InfluenceMap, Filipe completed his MEng in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sussex, and his MSc in Space Engineering at the University of Surrey.

Chris joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in April 2024 on the US LobbyMap team. He holds a BA in International Political Economy and Environmental Studies from Fordham University. During his time at Fordham, he also conducted research on air quality in New York City schools and wrote his undergraduate thesis on the importance of centering non-Western perspectives in a comprehensive environmental ethic. At InfluenceMap, his work centers on tracking corporate and industry engagement with climate change policy in the US.

Vivek is a Program Manager at InfluenceMap, where he leads the Fossil Fuels program. This includes the development of InfluenceMap's global Methane Platform, an interactive tool designed to track corporate engagement on methane policy proposed by governments. He also leads the program aimed at expanding the analysis of climate policy engagement in India. Vivek joined InfluenceMap in November 2020 after completing an MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment at University College London. He also holds a BSc in Economics from the University of York.

Cleo joined InfluenceMap in May 2021 after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she studied Political Science and International Political Economics; engaging in research on trade and immigration policy. At InfluenceMap, Cleo works as an Analyst evaluating financial services industry associations’ engagement on sustainable finance, looking into their efforts to influence policy in the United States at the federal and state levels.

Ray joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in May 2024. As part of our Japan team, he researches and evaluates Japanese corporate engagement on climate policy, with a particular focus in the renewable energy sector and the overall energy transition in Japan. Ray earned his Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Global Business from the University of Southern California (USC).

Tazu is a Senior Analyst on InfluenceMap’s Climate Finance Team, focusing on the engagement of EU and UK financial institutions and industry associations with the climate policy landscape. Tazu holds a BA in Politics and an MPhil in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge, where she researched corporate pollution and protest in post-war Japan. Before joining InfluenceMap, Tazu worked at the UN Global Compact Network UK.

Emily joined InfluenceMap as an Analyst in November 2024. As part of our China team, she assesses the climate policy engagement activities of corporations and industry associations, with a particular focus on the transport sector. Emily holds an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and a BS in Global Health and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation explored the discursive construction of net zero in UK media.

Advisors

As Director for Investor Engagements, Morgan leads Ceres' team to implement the goals of the Climate Action 100+ initiative in North America. She is responsible for supporting investor leadership on focus companies and working with Ceres' Oil and Gas, Electric Power, Transportation and Food and Water teams. Previously, Morgan spent five years working with European investors on corporate and public policy engagement at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), leading the development of a number of collaborative guides on Investor Expectations of Corporate Climate Risk Management and other publications focused on climate risk integration across asset classes. She has also had roles as a consultant for the physical climate risk research provider 427 and as an advisor to family offices and investment advisors on integration of environmental indicators into investment practices.

Ayako is a Manager for Climate Action 100+ at PRI, and facilitates collaborative engagements across Asia for Climate Action 100+, a global investor initiative to ensure the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change. Ayako joined PRI in 2019, after working as a senior analyst at an international credit rating agency and serving as a director of an educational non-profit organization.

Director of Business Task Force, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Yusuke Matsuo leads IGES’s work supporting corporate and policy actions. He is also the director of the secretariat of Japan Climate Leaders' Partnership, an independent business coalition, where he leads the team supporting the business group of more than 60 companies from across various sectors in Japan who are jointly driving corporate ambition for the transition to a net zero economy. Previously, he was a senior analyst at the Good Bankers Co., Ltd, an investment advisory firm, and at Sanwa Bank (current MUFG Bank). He received the Kaya Award from the Japan Society of Energy and Resources in 2008 and awards from the Ministry of Environment in Japan in 2007 and 2010 for his climate and energy policy proposals. He has MSc in Environmental Management and Policy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University.

Carol Lee Rawn is a consultant with extensive experience working with federal and state regulatory agencies, companies, investors and nonprofit organizations on clean transportation as well as a wide variety of other environmental issues. She previously served as the Senior Director, Transportation Program, at Ceres, General Counsel for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, and Deputy Legal Counsel to Massachusetts Governor William Weld. Carol Lee was also an attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, and an environmental crime prosecutor with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. She also served on the Massachusetts Commission on the Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth, and the Cambridge Climate Crisis Working Group.

Giulio Mattioli is Research Fellow at the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Earth & Environment at the University of Leeds. He has more than a decade of experience of research on sustainable transport, with a particular focus on climate mitigation. His research interests include car dependence and carbon lock-in in the transport sector, transport poverty, and the political economy of transport systems. He was involved as Contributing author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR6 WG3 report. He holds a PhD in Urban and Local European Studies from the University of Milan-Bicocca.

Bill Weihl is an independent consultant helping companies and non-profits drive climate action. From 2012 to 2018, Bill was Director of Sustainability at Facebook. He built a team that directs work on sustainability and energy efficiency across the company; they also drive cross-industry collaborations, including playing critical roles in RE100 and the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance. Prior to Facebook, Bill was Green Energy Czar at Google, where his team pioneered Google’s work to buy clean energy for its data centers. He is on the boards of several companies and nonprofits.