Pedro de Aragão Fernandes is a Senior Analyst based in CPI’s London office. In his role, he supports three key programs: Climate Finance Tracking, The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA).
Within the tracking program, he leads CPI’s methane abatement finance tracking workstream, and has been the data lead for several of national and regional tracking projects, including the Landscape of Climate Finance in Africa and the South African Landscape of Climate Finance.
He is the technical lead for CCFLA’s urban climate finance tracking workstream, overseeing the inception and development of urban climate finance estimation methodologies, as well as the management of project-level databases for the State of Cities Climate Finance.
He has provided analytical support to the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance’s program in Brazil for the past three years, helping public and private investors develop innovative blended finance investment solutions to mobilize funds for the country’s national climate goals. His most recent project was the Amazon Food&Forest Bioeconomy Financing Initiative, which aims to identify, assist, de-risk, and finance local regenerative businesses within the Amazon forest’s socio-bioeconomy.
In the past, Pedro has worked with CPI’s Brazil Policy Center, conducting research on the local impacts of large investments and rural credit on land use, productivity, and the environment. Prior to CPI, he was an Economist at Econometric Traces, applying econometric modelling and machine learning techniques to companies’ private data and developing inferential models for companies’ products.
His expertise spans climate finance, econometric modelling, and policy impact analysis. He holds a M.Res. and a M.Sc. in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), a master’s degree in economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
