Professor Juliet Davenport OBE - The Green Startup

In the summer of 2022 Professor Juliet Davenport received a of Doctor of Business Administration from the University of Bath.honorary degree

For a climate campaigner, Juliet had a high carbon early life. The daughter of a professional rally car driver, a childhood by the racetrack was followed by higher education at Oxford University, studying atmospheric physics. It was whilst sheltering in the library the night of the storm Michael Fish famously failed to predict, that she had her eureka moment: she had to dedicate her life to tackling climate change.

How she might take on this enormous task was not immediately clear. In the intervening years following graduation, Juliet spent time in Brussels working on carbon and energy policy. She became acquainted with the strong arm of the fossil fuel lobby and enamored with the potential of renewable technologies. Then a master’s degree in economics from Birkbeck, University of London,…