Dr Nadia Ameli

Nadia Ameli is an experienced researcher on economic, finance and policy aspects of climate change and related energy issues. Her research investigates questions related to financial barriers of low-carbon investments. She completed her PhD in Business Administration at the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona, Italy) and University of California (Berkeley, USA) with a focus on energy financing policy.

She is a Principal Research Fellow with a proleptic academic appointment at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR) and has recently been awarded an ERC starting grant (LINKS) focusing on the role of climate finance to meet the Paris goals (2019-2024). She joined UCL ISR in 2016 to lead the finance work of two EU Horizon2020 projects, entitled GREEN-WIN and RIPPLES. Both projects explore the crosscutting role of finance in overcoming barriers to climate adaptation, mitigation and sustainability action with a particular emphasis on exploring avenues for integrating climate public policies with mainstream finance framework and system. While at UC Berkeley together with Prof. Daniel Kammen, she explored an innovative approach, namely the Property Assessed Clean Energy, to link private funding to public financing mechanisms to facilitate access and affordability of low-carbon projects. Demonstrating the novelty of this scheme, PACE was awarded #1 World Changing Idea of 2009 by Scientific American.

She is also bringing research insights into policymaking and practical experience to bear upon academic studies. With 2 Degrees Investing Initiative, she has co-organised two workshops on climate finance and supported the research work at several international public policy organisations, including the OECD, the European Commission and the Global Green Growth Institute.

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