Clean Tech Made in America: A Year After the Inflation Reduction Act
Discussion Topics:
- US clean tech factory plans one-year post IRA
- How trade dependencies and imports impact the energy transition
Speakers
Matthew Ekroth
EMEA Corporate Data Strategy
Bloomberg
Matthew Ekroth leads the EMEA Data Strategy effort for Corporate clients. Matt specialises in helping clients solve supply chain problems with Bloomberg's Supply Chain, ESG and Sanctions products. Matt spent over 15 years as a quantitative equities Portfolio Manager at firms including Goldman Sachs and Engineers Gate in both London and New York. More recently he headed data strategy for equities trading at Morgan Stanley in London. Matt holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School.
Antoine Vagneur-Jones
Head of Trade and Supply Chains
BloombergNEF
Antoine Vagneur-Jones leads the Trade and Supply Chains team at BloombergNEF, Bloomberg’s primary research service covering the energy transition. His team's analysis looks at the energy transition’s impact on manufacturing and trade across heavy industry and clean energy. Antoine previously worked for a Tokyo-base PV developer and, prior to that, a think tank in Paris. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and SOAS, University of London.
Stephanie Muro Padilla
Associate, Trade and Supply Chains
BloombergNEF
Stephanie Muro Padilla is an Associate at the Trade and Supply Chains, BloombergNEF team based in London. She analyses global trade flows on clean technologies, linking the macroeconomic effects and trade policies related to them. She has published pieces on interest rates movements affecting energy projects and had collaborated on pieces regarding emerging markets energy transition investments. Before joining Bloomberg Stephanie was an FX and commodities trader at the Central Bank of Mexico, with a master’s in finance from London Business School. She worked as a specialist in G10 markets with expertise in forecasting, modelling, and economic research to assess the feasibility and implementation of macroeconomic instruments.
Pranati Kohli
Analyst, Trade and Supply Chains
BloombergNEF
As a part of BloombergNEF's Trade and Supply Chains team, Pranati focuses on global manufacturing of clean technologies. Prior to this, she worked with the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India to enable investments in the country's energy transition. She worked with companies to present investment opportunities, understand bottlenecks and facilitate clean-tech manufacturing projects across India. Pranati also worked with policymakers on developing incentive programs to scale green technologies. She has a Masters in sustainable development from Columbia SIPA, and has worked extensively with Columbia's Center on Global Energy Policy.