Nicolas Lippolis

Nicolas Lippolis is founder and executive director of the Centre for Energy, Finance, and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work focuses on research regarding the financing of low-carbon development in fossil fuel-producing countries across Africa and Latin America. Nicolas was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Climate School and the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, New York, USA, as well as a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has taught at the University of Oxford, Sciences Po Paris, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His professional experience includes consulting for the World Bank, the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, and several African governments, as well as working in emerging markets macroeconomic research at Goldman Sachs, London, UK. Nicolas holds a BA in philosophy, politics and economics, an MSc in economics for development, and a DPhil in politics from the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.