The Environmental Finance & Risk Management program seeks to meet our most pressing environmental challenges by applying advanced financial modeling and data analytics to the variety of environmental data that policymakers rely on for environmental resilience and adaptation strategies. It is based on the rationale that spending money is required for large-scale human-driven environmental change (e.g. land development, resource extraction and harvesting, manufacturing, distribution, disposal, cleanup, restoration). Human actions as financial transactions are essential, since "conservation without finance is just conversation." Integrating finance and natural systems can be achieved by linking financial theory and innovations to environmental sciences.
EFRM in the News
Op-Ed
Mario Loyola, How Florida Keeps Electricity Plentiful and Rates Low
Wall Street Journal
october 4, 2024
Op-Ed
Mario Loyola, The Impossible energy 'Transition'
Wall Street Journal
December 18, 2023
Op-Ed
Mario Loyola, Clean Power? Where's Your Permit?
Wall Street Journal
August 31, 2022
Op-Ed
Mario Loyola, Climate Policy and the Supreme Court’s Decision in West Virginia vs. EPA
Wall Street Journal
June 30th, 2022
Media
Conference: America's Energy Future
Prof. Mario Loyola hosted a Federalist Society Conference in Washington, D.C., on the topic of 'America’s Energy Future: Abundance or Scarcity?' The conference took place on May 2, 2024, at The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Speakers included former FERC Chairman James Danly and former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
Conference Presentation
Prof. Enrique Villamor, Using Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) to Price Financial Instruments to Manage Climate Risk
University of Toronto, Fields-CFI Workshop on Impacts of Climate Change on Economics, Finance, and Insurance
Sep 21, 2022
Panel
Mario Loyola, Amber Polk, Ed Glab, Tawia Ansah
Clean Energy 2035: Within Reach or A Bridge Too Far?
Florida International University College of Law
September 13, 2022
Webinar
Mario Loyola, Overcoming the Challenges to Clean Infrastructure
The Federalist Society
July 19, 2022
Program Staff
Mario Loyola
Research Assistant Professor; Director, Environmental Finance & Risk Management
mloyola@fiu.eduEnrique Villamor
Professor; Associate Director, Environmental Finance & Risk Management, Institute of Environment
villamor@fiu.edu
DM 414B
Environmental Finance Fellows
Min Chen
SunTrust Bank Professorship; Associate Professor
305-348-4201
mchen2@fiu.edu
RB 204AYoon-Jung Choi
Assistant Professor
305-348-8490
yoonchoi@fiu.eduKrishnan Dandapani
Distinguished University Professor
305-348-4241
dandapan@fiu.edu
RB 208BSandrine Docgne Penlap
Assistant Professor
305-348-9730
sdocgnep@fiu.edu
RB 210Sukumar Gunapati
Professor
305-348-6275
profile@fiu.eduXiaoquan Jiang
Professor
305-348-7910
jiangx@fiu.edu
RB 210Qiang Kang
Ryder Systems Research Fellow Associate Professor
305-348-4379
qkang@fiu.edu
RB 210Suchismita Mishra
Associate Dean; Professor
305-348-5974
mishras@fiu.edu
RB 208BOzde Oztekin
Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar, Eminent Scholar
305-348-7427
ooztekin@fiu.edu
RB 210Pallab Mozumder
Associate Professor
305-348-7146
mozumder@fiu.edu
AHC5 370Shabnam Rezapour
Assistant Professor
305-348-2256
srezapou@fiu.eduBerrin Tansel
Professor
305-348-2928
tanselb@fiu.edu
EC 3676, EC 3760, EC 3781Muhammad Bakhtear Talukdar
Adjunct Lecturer
305-348-2680
mtalukda@fiu.edu
RB 207AMark Thibodeau
Assistant Professor
305-779-3105
mthibode@fiu.eduArun Upadhyay
Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar, Eminent Scholar
305-348-5427
arun.upadhyay@fiu.edu
RB 210Anqi Wu
Assistant Professor
305-348-5215
anwu@fiu.edu
RB 254BWalter Zhonghong Tang
Associate Professor
Visiting Scholars
Joseph W. Sullivan
Joseph W. Sullivan holds an AB with High Honors in Social Studies from Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2013. He also attended Cambridge University as a Harvard-Cambridge Summer Fellow. Currently, Mr. Sullivan serves as a Senior Adviser at The Lindsey Group, where he generates original economic analysis and develops proprietary economic indices. His previous roles include Staff Economist and Special Adviser to the Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Research Associate at the American Enterprise Institute, and Research Assistant at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Sullivan's extensive experience spans a range of economic and public policy issues, underpinned by his proficiency in quantitative and qualitative analysis.