Lea Reitmeier

Lea Reitmeier serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where her work centers on environmental degradation risks to financial systems. Her research bridges sustainable finance, physical climate/catastrophe risk modeling, and central banking frameworks.

Her academic foundation includes an MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from LSE and a BA in Economics from University College Dublin (UCD). Prior professional experience encompasses three years at Deutsche Bank AG as a sustainability specialist, focusing on ESG-linked transactions and non-financial metric integration, plus secondee roles with the Value Balancing Alliance.

Reitmeier's scholarship reveals intense focus on biodiversity finance mechanisms like the Cali Fund and Digital Sequence Information governance under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Her publication portfolio demonstrates parallel expertise in blue finance for ocean conservation, sovereign catastrophe bonds for disaster risk management, and ESG integration in banking regulation. Policy-relevant outputs consistently target actionable frameworks for financial supervisors and climate policymakers.

She actively shapes international policy through submissions to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and Convention on Biological Diversity, while CETEx collaborations drive net-zero transition strategies. Her Western Balkans Green Skills Assessment project highlights capacity-building efforts for public institutions in emerging economies.