Academic Track (session II)
Speaking
Mr. Brad Handler
Program Manager, Sustainable Finance Lab and Researcher, Colorado School of Mines · Academics
Sessions
Investment for Development Research Square
A meeting place for policy-oriented academic research
Speaking
Financial Instruments for Early Retirement of Fossil-Fuel-Assets
Moderating
Biography
Brad Handler has been with the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines since 2020. As the Program Manager for Payne’s Sustainable Finance Lab, he researches how to spur more private institutional investment into lowering carbon emissions with a particular emphasis on fossil fuel assets, carbon removal and carbon offset markets. Brad is a former Wall Street Equity Research Analyst covering the Oilfield Services & Drilling (OFS) sector for 20 years at firms including Credit Suisse and Jefferies. He has a B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.