Alex Clark will be speaking on green finance, establishing a rigorous means of assessing climate finance, and the linkages between sustainable financial instruments and their effects on the real economy.
Friday, December 4th, 2020 5:00 - 6:00pm EDT. There will be a 20 minute Q&A at the end, open to all participants. To receive the Zoom link, please register here before the event.
About the speaker:
Alex Clark is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, where his research focuses on the identification and transmission of fossil-fuel related stranded asset risks in the public sector, and how governments and their agents (particularly state-owned enterprises) should respond to these risks, with a particular focus on China. Alex is also the outgoing director of the GeoAsset Project, (formerly Asset-level Data Initiative) an Oxford-led research programme within the Spatial Finance Initiative aiming to develop public asset-level datasets for use by the research community and financial sector.
Alex also works as a consultant to the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University following his work as a consultant and climate finance analyst at the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). He co-led a study on implementing alignment with the Paris Agreement for members of the International Development Finance Club; led data development and processing for the 2019 Global Landscape of Climate Finance; and supported the development of PAYS for Clean Transport, a financial mechanism for accelerating electric bus deployment with the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. He has worked with clients including the Green Climate Fund, ClimateWorks Foundation and European Climate Foundation.
Alex holds an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from Oxford, and is a former holder of the Henry Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he focused on energy geopolitics and policy, electric mobility and international law. He holds a BA from Warwick University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and has also studied at Sciences Po in Paris.
https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/research/aclark.html
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