Valerio Micale is Associate Director at Climate Policy Initiative’s London office, where he leads work on financial sector integrity and Net Zero Finance and contributes to advancing research across the organization. With nearly 15 years of experience in climate finance and sustainability, Valerio has pioneered and advanced innovative approaches to tackle complex challenges in the sector. His interests and work encompass green investment and blended finance, financial sector transition, financial modelling and risk analysis, carbon market assessment, emission mitigation evaluation, network analysis, material flow analysis, energy access and transition needs assessment, and impact evaluation, including multi-criteria analysis.

Valerio is currently driving CPI’s work on the net zero finance transition, leading science-based Paris alignment analysis and the development of  the Net Zero Finance Tracker (NZFT), an open-data platform that monitors the financial sector’s transition from net-zero commitments to tangible actions and impacts. The NZFT, which integrates data from over 50 sources and more than 200 data points across 1,000 financial institutions, has been used to assess the financial sector’s progress toward achieving global climate goals across financial centers and leading research platforms.

Valerio has also supported the development of tools and methodologies for organizations such as the Green Climate Fund, including the Investment Criteria Scorecard, used to standardize the assessment of the potential impact and alignment of funding proposals. He also led the redesign of the screening and assessment process (currently in use) of the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, as well as the analysis of several innovative financial mechanisms.

Before joining CPI, Valerio was a researcher at Bocconi University, where he worked on projects related to sustainability and corporate environmental accountability. Prior to that, he worked for First Climate Zurich, where he was involved in risk management, and developed statistical models to analyze carbon market trends and help funds and project managers assess carbon asset risks.

Valerio holds a Master’s degree in Business Economics and a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Economics from Bocconi University.