Alex Clark

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Prior to Oxford, Alex worked as a full-time climate finance analyst at CPI, a non-profit organization specializing in climate and energy finance. He co-authored a study on implementing alignment with the Paris Agreement for members of the International Development Finance Club; led data development and processing for the 2019 Global Landscape of Climate Finance; and supported the development of a financial mechanism for accelerating electric bus deployment with the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. He has worked with clients including the Green Climate Fund, ClimateWorks Foundation and European Climate Foundation.

Alex’s current research revolves around developing a new approach to evaluating stranded asset and labour risks from the perspective of governments and state-owned enterprises, with a particular focus on China in the context of post-COVID-19 stimulus measures and the continuation of approvals for new coal-fired power generation capacity. Much research to date on stranded assets has implicitly assumed asset owners to be profit maximizing private sector actors, which is of limited use in economies with a significant state presence. Through his research, Alex hopes to understand and model the behavior and incentives of SOEs in detail, and in so doing help design policies and institutions better suited to a rapid, just and permanent transition to a net zero emissions economy.