strategy – Simon Taylor's Blog

5 Feb 2026

A nuclear three-body problem

by Simon Taylor | posted in: China, International affairs | 2

China’s growing nuclear weapon capability risks overturning the relative stability of nuclear deterrence based on only two adversaries * Chinese author Liu Cixin’s novel The Three-Body Problem was an international best seller, and was later turned into a really interesting, … Continued

14 Feb 2021

Should oil companies invest in renewable electricity?

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Economics, Energy | 4

Oil and gas companies have few skills that are transferable to electricity generation and risk wasting a lot of their shareholders’ money. * “Peak oil” used to refer to supply but in recent years has come to mean the year … Continued

Simon is Management Practice Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-2018 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and was later the first Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Management at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he is a member of the investment committee, and a research associate of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group, where he specialises in nuclear finance.

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