Mark Westcott
Advisor at Mode Economics
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Westcott is a technology and sustainability leader with 11 years' experience building data-driven platforms that translate climate science into decision-ready insights for banks, insurers and asset managers. As co-founder and former CTO of Planetrics—acquired by McKinsey in 2022—he led engineering and product work to quantify, report and manage physical climate risk at enterprise scale. He blends academic rigor (PhD and MSc in Economics) with hands-on technical delivery, having led ML- and web-based projects (Scala, Python, React, Mapbox, AWS) that monitor deforestation and urban greenspace benefits. At McKinsey and Vivid Economics he translated complex climate economics into operational tools and client-facing analysis across Europe, North America and Asia. Now advising nature and economics ventures, he pairs startup grit with consultancy discipline to turn environmental science into usable, auditable business systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Politics, Philosophy, Economics, BA, Politics, Philosophy, Economics at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenVisiting Research Scholar, Economics, Visiting Research Scholar, Economics at Stanford University
Github Skills (25)
risk-assessment6
localization5
geotrellis4
locale4
gis4
python4
react4
tile-server3
parametric3
matlab3
hazard3
translation3
internationalization3
geospatial2
pyspark2
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
markwestcott34/markwestcott34.github.io
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
markwestcott34/stargazer-booktabs
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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