Stuart P.M. Mackintosh is the Executive Director of the Group of Thirty an international financial think tank comprised senior figures from central banking, the financial sector, and academia. His research focus centers on climate change, macroeconomic and systemic risks, global governance issues, and the international political economy.
Mackintosh is a past president of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), the largest professional organization of economists in the United States. He is an elected member of the Conference of Business Economists, and a certified Business Economist.
Mackintosh has a B.A. and Ph.D. from Newcastle University and a M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh. In 2018 Dr. Mackintosh was appointed a non-resident Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University.
Mackintosh speaks regularly on climate economics, risks, and pathways forward. Mackintosh is a columnist for The Hill, Project Syndicate, The South China Morning Post, The National, The Herlad, and many other outlets
When out of the office, Mackintosh can often be found on his cross-country bike in the Blue Ridge mountains, laboring up the hill and down the trails, most of the time with the required degree of control.