Profile
Dr Jimena Alvarez leads the Global Finance & Economy Group's workstream on Greening Finance for Nature and the scenarios work as part of the Oxford Martin School Systemic Resilience Initiative. She is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Nexus Assessment on finance and has served as an expert on the Nature Task Force of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). She is also a Lillian Goldman Junior Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford.
Jimena brings 19 years of experience spanning engineering, climate change, nature-based solutions, modelling, economics, and finance across academia, industry, and nonprofits in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She began her career advising the C-suite on strategic corporate planning in an Italian-Argentine holding group. Her research skills include quantitative risk analysis, systems analysis, and economic/financial analysis. Jimena holds a degree in Industrial Engineering (BEng and MEng equivalent) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Management from Lancaster University.
Publications
- O'Donnell, E., Alvarez, J., Ranger, N. (2024). How finance can be part of the solution to the world’s biodiversity crisis. The Conversation, 22 October.
- O'Donnell, E., Alvarez, J. (2024). At Risk: Aligning Financial Resilience, Climate and Biodiversity Goals. In D. Carlin, D. Aikman, M. Lepere, & L. Taschini (Eds.), Accelerating Transition: Climate Finance Policies to prioritise in the first 100 days, p. 25-28.
- Ranger, N., Oliver. T., e.a. (2024). Assessing the Materiality of Nature-Related Financial Risks for the UK. Report. Green Finance Institute, University of Oxford, University of Reading, UNEP-WCMC, NIESR.
- Ranger, N., Alvarez J., Freeman, A., Harwood, T., Obersteiner, M., Paulus, E. and Sabuco, J. (2023). The Green Scorpion: the Macro-Criticality of Nature for Finance – Foundations for scenario-based analysis of complex and cascading physical nature-related risks. Oxford: Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
- Jankowska, E., Pelc, R., Alvarez, J., Mehra, M. and Frischmann, C.J., 2022. Climate benefits from establishing marine protected areas targeted at blue carbon solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(23): p.e2121705119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2121705119
- Frischmann, C.J., Mehra, M., Alvarez, J., Jankowska, E., Jones, H., Namasivayam, A. and Yussuff, A., 2022. The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader. Nature Climate Change, 12(5): 410-412. doi: 10.1038/s41558-022-01351-3
- Alvarez, J., Yumashev, D. and Whiteman, G., 2020. A framework for assessing the economic impacts of Arctic change. Ambio, 49(2): 407-418. doi: 10.1007/s13280-019-01211-z
Working papers
- Hope, C., Gilding, P. and Alvarez, J., 2015. Quantifying the implicit climate subsidy received by leading fossil fuel companies Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Judge Business School.