Profile
Dr Jimena Alvarez leads the Global Finance & Economy Group's workstream on Greening Finance for Nature and the work on scenarios as part of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Systemic Resilience. She is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)'s Second Global Assessment Report, was a contributing author for IPBES' Nexus Assessment on finance; and is an expert on the Nature Task Force of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).
Jimena brings 20 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. She started her career advising the C-suite in strategic corporate planning in an Italian-Argentine holding group. Her research skills comprise 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
- Alvarez, J., O’Donnell, E., Sabuco, J., Marsden, L., Hawkins, I., Gall, S., Troiano, M. and zu Ermgassen, S.O.S.E. (2025) Achieving the Finance Targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework: A Scenario Approach for the United Kingdom. SSRN Electronic Journal.
- Ceglar, A., Jwaideh, M., O’Donnell, E., Danieli, F., Pasqua, C., Hutchinson, J., Cimini, F., Sabuco, J., Alvarez, J., Ranger, N. and Heemskerk, I. (2025) Nature at risk: Implications for the euro area economy and financial stability. ECB Occasional Paper Series No. 380. Frankfurt: European Central Bank.
- Alvarez, J., Postel-Vinay, N., Melis, A., McKenzie, E. and Ranger, N. (2025). Evidence review on the financial effects of nature-related risks. Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Resilient Planet Finance Lab; Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD); Global Canopy.
- Alvarez, J., Postel-Vinay, N., Guckenberger, M., Lee, J., Lambin, R., O’Donnell, E. and Pasqua, C. (2025). Nature-related financial risks database (June 2025). Resilient Planet Finance Lab; Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
- 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.