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Isabelle Holmes
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Isabelle Holmes

 Engagement Manager

Isabelle joined RIG in 2024 as a member of the AgBio practice where she especially looks forward to accelerating the progress of technologies with positive impacts on human health on a global scale, such as reducing the burden on healthcare systems through facilitating better patient outcomes, or through using industrial biotechnology to produce nutritious food with a lower carbon footprint. Her professional interests include MedTech, novel applications of AI, and sustainable textile solutions. She recently graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master's degree in Engineering Science, where she most enjoyed topics in the fields of machine learning and biomedical engineering.

As a novice enthusiast in aerial sports, Isabelle spends her spare time attempting (and often failing) to suspend herself in the air - preferably upside down. She also enjoys cooking, checking off entries in her ever-growing bucket list of recipes.

 

Second order effects - First class opportunities

The unconsidered secondary problems of decarbonisation are some of the greatest opportunities for companies with the knowhow.

 

Share buybacks: an attack on R&D

Share buybacks are one of the reasons for the inflated valuations currently in the market, meanwhile R&D spending has stagnated.

 

Risk. Nothing to worry about

Risk, or specifically risk tolerance, is one of the factors that has enabled innovators for centuries; it is risk or specifically risk tolerance that has progressed human development, not its avoidance.

 

The tranquilizing drug of incremental innovation

How the comfort of the marginal gain can sleepwalk a company into the abyss

 

Increasing the barrier makes us jump higher

How regulating to stymie innovation can end up accelerating it

 

Is AI the superhero or supervillain of the energy transition?

AI is believed to be the greatest technological advance of this generation , and in the climate space we’re seeing the emergence of many AI -enabled solutions.  However, there have been widespread reports over the last year regarding AI's  high energy consumption  resulting in AI becoming a leading contributor to the climate crisis