Speakers
Speaker Biographies
Dr Yannis Dafermos
Reader in Economics and Head of the Department, Department of Economics at SOAS University of London
Yannis Dafermos is a Reader in Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. His research interests lie in ecological and financial macroeconomics, climate finance, climate-aligned development, inequalities and the political economy of the green transition. He has led and co-led multiple projects on the role of macroeconomic and financial policies in the green transition and has run capacity building programmes on climate change for many central banks. Yannis is a Senior Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and a Fellow at the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies.
Dr Paul Gilbert
Reader in Development, Justice and Inequality (Anthropology), School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
Paul Gilbert’ is Reader in Development, Justice and Inequality (Anthropology) at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Paul’s teaching and research are concerned with understanding how economic and financial ideas and practices produce inequalities, and how marginalised bodies of knowledge can inform the pursuit of greater economic justice. His expertise includes political risk insurance, international investment law, and extractive industry projects, such as critical minerals. His current research, Contractors and Consultants in Global Development, focuses on for-profit development actors, and their role in shaping implementation of and knowledge about UK-funded development.
Dr Will Lock
Lecturer in International Development and Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
Will Lock is Lecturer in International Development and Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. His research and teaching focuses on political ecology, environmental justice, carbon markets and food systems. His research explores the role of private organisations in the conservation and reforestation of land in the Peruvian Amazon and in Carmarthenshire, Wales, analysing the role of the voluntary carbon market, the use of market-based instruments in conservation and the political ecology of forests more broadly.
Dr John Morris
Assistant Professor in Economic Geography,School of GEorgaphy, University of Nottingham
John Morris is a financial geographer with research and teaching interests in central banking, financial risk management, green finance, climate change and just energy transitions. His research investigates how risk is constituted through discursive and calculative practices by experts in public and private institutions and how such renderings of risk emanate outwards to shape and remake the geographies of the global financial system.
Dr Amiera Sawas
Head, Research and Policy at Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
Amiera Sawas is Head of Research and Policy at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FFNPT) Initiative. After gaining her PhD in water, climate and human rights in Pakistan, she went on to work for Climate Outreach, ActionAid and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College. She is also a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment report on gender and climate security.
Dr Farwa Sial
Asia Regional Director, Research and Policy, International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) and Research Associate, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London
Farwa Sial is Asia Regional Director, Research and Policy at IDEAs and Research Associate with the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. She is a political economist with expertise in development and climate finance, climate policy, industrial policy, and private sector accumulation in the global south. Her research interests lie in integrating academic research into activism and policy making on a national and multilateral level. She is a management committee member of the Association of Heterodox Economics and Diversifying and Decolonising Economics. She has 10 years of academic research, teaching, and policy experience in various multilateral forums.
Professor Celine Tan
Professor of International Economic Law, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick
Celine Tan is Professor of International Economic Law at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. She is also the Co-Director of the GLOBE Centre based at Warwick Law School. She is currently leading a project on Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT), a multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at exploring the climate finance supply chain within the context of the multilateral climate change regime, international financial architecture and the multi-layered landscape of international economic law. She has published on issues relating to international economic law and development, sovereign debt and the global financial architecture, and sustainable development and climate finance.
Jodi-Ann Wang
Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and St Hughs College, University of Oxford
Jodi-Ann is Research and Policy Consultant with the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and DPhil candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford. Her DPhil project investigates the rise and fixation of financialised capital as a promised solution to the global climate crisis, how this came to be, and what this means for climate justice. She was a climate policy specialist at the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment, advising governments on net zero-aligned financial regulations. She was recently a Policy Fellow at the Just Transition Finance Lab at the LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment.