About
David Kampmann is an LSE Fellow in the Social Sciences of Sustainability at the Global School of Sustainability. He also holds a Career Development Fellow at the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment.
David’s research focuses on the international political economy of venture capital, AI and just transition. He is writing a monography which aims to trace the history of venture capital in the US from its emergence in the wake of WWII to the vast private capital markets of the 2010-20s that fueled the current AI investment boom and concentrated capital wealth and corporate control in Silicon Valley. As part of his research on the political economy of just transition, David has been examining various issues in the field of sustainable finance, including transition risks and assessment frameworks for transition planning.
Prior to joining LSE, David held fellowships at the University of Oxford and City St George’s University of London, where his research was funded by the ESRC. Previously, David was a research associate at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. He received his PhD in Sociology from the LSE and holds a MSc (with distinction) in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics, a MSc (with First Class Honors) from HEC Paris School of Management, and a BSc (with distinction) in Economics and Management from Ruhr-Universität Bochum.