Irene Monasterolo appointed as Professor of Climate Finance

As of 15 October 2023, Irene Monasterolo has been appointed as Professor of Climate Finance at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E. She will work on climate economics and climate finance, including climate stress-tests, climate impact on sovereign fiscal and financial stability, green fiscal and financial policies, the climate insurance protection gap, and lending tools for climate adaptation. Irene Monasterolo. Irene Monasterolo holds a PhD in Agri-Food Economics and Statistics from the University of Bologna (2012) and was post-doc at Boston University. Irene is associate editor at Ecological Economics, and fellow at the Institute Louis Bachelier and at SUERF. Her research contributes to analysing the role of finance in climate change mitigation and adaptation. To this aim, Irene Monasterolo developed methodological approaches to analyse the macro-financial criticality of climate risks, and the role of green finance policies in the low-carbon transition.