Alexander Wollenweber

The Fiscal Consequences of Cascading Climate, Nature and Macro-Financial Risks

Alexander is a DPhil candidate at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, supervised by Dr Nicola Ranger and a member of the Global Finance and Economy Group at the ECI and the Leverhulme Center for Nature Recovery. His research focuses on the interplay between climate change, macro-financial risks, and public finance. Specifically, it aims to understand and develop scenario analysis to capture the feedback between cascading climate- and nature-related financial risks with macro-financial risks, and quantify the implications for sovereign debt sustainability and creditworthiness. 

Alongside his doctoral studies, Alexander is a Senior Analyst, Fixed Income, at the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, and Social Secretary of his college at Oxford. Previously, Alexander was a researcher at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he co-authored a paper on 'aligning sovereign bond markets with the net zero transition: the role of central banks'. He began his career in the financial industry as a Climate Finance Research Fellow at Barings Investment Management, Sovereign Debt and Currencies. 

Alexander holds a double MSc (Distinction), in International Political Economy from the LSE and in International Economic Policy from Sciences Po, major in quantitative methods, and a BSc. (Distinction) in International Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School (CBS). At CBS, he also co-founded CBS Climate Club, volunteered as a tutor, and was a student research assistant at the Copenhagen School of Energy Infrastructure.