Dr Jimena Alvarez

Lead, Greening Finance for Nature - Global Finance & Economy Group at Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Speaker

Dr Alvarez is based at the Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford) where she leads the Global Finance & Economy Group's workstream on Greening Finance for Nature and the work on scenarios as part of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Systemic Resilience. She is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Nexus Assessment on finance and worked as an expert on the Nature Task Force of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). She is also a Lillian Goldman Junior Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford.
Alvarez brings 19 years' experience spanning from engineering, climate change, nature-based solutions, modelling, economics and finance across academia, industry and nonprofit in Latin America, Europe and the United States. She started her career advising the C-suite in strategic corporate planning in an Italian-Argentine holding group. Her research skills comprise quantitative risk analysis, systems analysis and economic/financial analysis.
Alvarez holds a degree in Industrial Engineering (BEng and MEng equivalent) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Management from Lancaster University.