Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis

Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in climate finance within the academic field of finance.

Her research covers how financial incentives can be aligned with a net-zero sustainable economy, and her current research focuses on the economic case (and mechanisms) for climate finance at scale to decarbonise the global economy.

She speaks English and Dutch.

She is also an Associate Research Scholar in the Faculty of Business at Columbia University, and she is affiliated with the Imperial College Business School Finance Department of Imperial College London. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. She is Research Associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford, a RPN Member of Sustainable Finance at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and is Faculty Fellow of the Cornell Atkinson Centre for Sustainability. She is a member of a new CEPR program area on Climate and the Environment. She co-organises Young Scholars’ Webinar on Climate Finance and Economics. She holds a PhD in Mathematical and Computational Finance from the University of Oxford.