An Intersection of Passion and Profession
Pioneering Action In Sustainability
"How can you measure and manage climate risk if you don't know where things are?"
This fundamental question is what led me to inspire the United Nations to adopt geospatial data and technology as part of its recommended methodology (TCFD) for companies to report and manage physical climate risk.
United Nations
Global Leader and Influencer on the Adoption of Climate Risk Management & Reporting
After a decade of working in Financial Markets, and at the time leading Bloomberg's new MAPS<GO> product, I was invited to the United Nations in 2017 to join a working group on TCFD Physical Climate Risk. Our goal was to establish a framework for how financial institutions could report on its organizational and investment exposure to climate risk. Though I was only invited to showcase my product, MAPS<GO>, to serve as a visual tool for the report, I recognized a gap in how the framework could actually take form without using the geospatial data and technology to quantity and produce the climate scores.
The methodology required the intersection of building locations (like a power plant) and the forecasted climate data produced by scientists. The two worlds (and databases) were completely disparate systems, but through MAPS<GO>, I facilitated a practice and environment to conduct this analysis. The framework was published by the United Nations in 2018 and has taken on several iterations since its inception. Today, countries from around the world have enacted regulations to follow this guidance and this work for me personally, was the genesis of my career's work in sustainability.
Innovative Solutions
askRiskthinking
askRiskthinking is built on a Climate Digital Twin of the earth's physical system - both economically (ie buildings and cost) and environmentally (climate scenarios). Capturing billions of simulations, this closed-environment data base allows users to ask both simple and complex questions about the future climate change and its risk, producing reliable and transparent answers.
Climate analytics have never easier to surface and put into action.
SpatiaFi
SpatiaFi connects the environment with the economy to support regulatory reporting, risk management, and sustainable finance investments.
In partnership with Google Cloud, the product achieved notable success with clients and accolades, globally. In doing so, enabled organizations around the world to accelerate strategies to incorporate climate and nature data.
Bloomberg Maps & Data
The Bloomberg Mapping functions were the first to onboard weather and climate data into the Bloomberg Terminal. This new alternative data, combined with intuitive searching for company asset maps, allowed clients of all types to use maps for visual analysis, story telling, and strategy.
I also led the development of the world's first environmental exposure data product that quantified weather and climate scores per facility and per company. This product was capable of outputting news, alerts, and data feeds.
Thought Leadership
Partnership with Capgemini and Watershed
WWF
Bloomberg News
2023 Google Cloud Sustainability Forum
Columbia University
Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX)
CARTO SDSC 2022
Global Fishing Watch