Ilmi Granoff

Ilmi Granoff is an attorney and climate and sustainable finance expert with 25 years of experience—spanning public, private, and third-sector institutions—on the policy and financing of the transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas, sustainable economy. Ilmi is currently a partner at the strategic advisory firm Climate Technology Group and a Senior Fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. He is also a member of the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee (CFRAC) of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the US Department of the Treasury. Ilmi is acting president of Carbon Tracker, Inc. and non-executive Director of Tracker Group, Ltd. and Carbon Tracker Initiative, Inc. He is also member of the Advisory Board of InfluenceMap.

Previously, Ilmi created and led the Finance Program at the ClimateWorks Foundation as a Senior Director. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and headed the Green Growth Business Unit at the Overseas Development Institute, served as the Special Counsel for Climate and Environment at the African Development Bank, practiced law in the global energy and infrastructure group at Freshfields, and worked at the United Nations Development Program. Ilmi holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, master’s degrees in international relations and environmental science from Yale University, and a B.A. (High Honors) from Swarthmore College.