Liz Curmi, PhD, is a Director and Global thematic analyst working within the newly created Citi Global Insights division, designed to provide thought leadership content and insight to the full breadth of Citi’s client base. She works in the Sustainable Finance Team and leads the workstream on climate finance and energy transition. Liz is the lead author of many of the most read Citi GPS reports including food and climate change, climate finance, Global Carbon Markets, Hard to Abate Sectors and Emissions and Voluntary Carbon Markets. She has co-authored several other reports including biodiversity and sustainable ocean economy. Prior to joining Citi, she worked as a postdoc researcher at the University of Cambridge focusing on the interconnections between water, energy and land resources and their impacts on greenhouse gas emissions. During this time, she had countless meetings with policy makers all over the world, providing advice on the impact that climate change could have on natural resources including the availability of water and the production of food. Liz has a PhD in environmental economics and has presented her work in many academic conferences, UNECE, UNFCCC COP meetings, corporates and to government officials. She has worked with many of the leading experts in sustainability including the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Stanford, Tsinghua University, University of Berkeley, and others. She has also published her research in many of the leading scientific journals including Nature Climate Change.