Profile
Dr Jimena Alvarez leads the Resilience & Development Group's work on scenarios as part of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Systemic Resilience, as well as the Group's research Programmes on greening finance for nature.
Alvarez brings 17 years' experience spanning from engineering, climate change, nature-based solutions, modelling, economics and finance across academia, industry and nonprofit in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Her research skills comprise quantitative risk analysis, systems analysis and economic/financial analysis.
She 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
- 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.