Irene Monasterolo

Telephone:

+43 1 31336 4773

Email:

irene.monasterolo@wu.ac.at

About me:

Irene Monasterolo is an Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance at the Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business and a visiting research fellow at Boston University, USA. Irene holds a Ph.D. in Agri-food Economics and Statistics from the University of Bologna, and two post-doctoral specializations in Cambridge (UK) and Boston (USA). Irene has extensive experience in developing policy-relevant academic research on how to align the financial system to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Irene has contributed to develop the first climate stress-test methodology, applied to both commercial and development banks’ portfolios for introducing climate risk factors into financial risk metrics; the first financial macro-network model for climate policy’s risk financial risk evaluation; the EIRIN Stock-Flow Consistent behavioural model to assess financial and distributive effects of green fiscal, monetary policies and green bonds. Her research has been published on top-ranked academic journals, such as Nature Climate Change and Climatic Change. In addition, Irene has been working as a consultant for major development banks (e.g. World Bank, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank) on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Finally, she leads on the Research Area ‘Environment-Economy Interactions’ of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), of which she is also a council member since 2018.