• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Dickon Pinner

BlackRock

Head of Transition Capital

Dickon Pinner, Managing Director, is Head of Transition Capital for BlackRock and a member of BlackRock Capital Markets Executive Committee, and sits on the Investment Committees of BlackRock Global Infrastructure Funds, and BlackRock Climate Infrastructure. He is responsible for transition-related sourcing from corporates, capital formation, and thought leadership. Dickon is a former senior partner at McKinsey & Co. where he was the global leader of McKinsey Sustainability from 2017-2022, and co-founded McKinsey's Cleantech Practice in 2008. Dickon advised CEOs across industries on how to manage the risks and opportunities presented by climate change and the energy transition, with a focus on growth, and led the acquisition of Vivid Economics. He is widely published, and a recognized global thought leader on the energy transition. Dickon received a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University in 2000, an MSc in Physics from Berkeley University in 1994, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a First Class Honors Degree from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences in 1992. Prior to joining McKinsey, Dickon worked as a Reservoir Engineer for Shell International.

Sessions With Dickon Pinner

Thursday, 21 March

  • 11:55am - 12:45pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 04:55 pm - 21/mar/2024 05:45 pm

    New Capital for New Energy
    Finance & Investment/Trading & Risk Management

    Energy hasn’t been this exciting for investors in decades. Two revolutions are intersecting and creating huge opportunities—cleantech costs have fallen rapidly while financial power in the sector shifted from traditional banks to new investors. Whether corporations investing in their own balance sheets, or private equity players and sovereign funds moving into new businesses, firms are deploying capital across every part of a rapidly changing energy landscape. Learn how these leaders in capital allocation combine the skillsets of traditional energy finance with novel capitalization approaches and balance the requirements of natural resource businesses with breakthrough technologies.