Elena Müller
Former Research Assistant
Personal Profile
Focus
As a Research Assistant, Elena worked on systemic projects for sustainable finance and the mobilisation of private capital to finance climate goals. Elena also supported topics related to industrial policy and just transition and helped design policy labs on these subjects. As a volunteer, she is passionately committed to involving youth in international climate policy and follows the UNFCCC negotiations on climate finance.
Background
Elena gained experience as a trainee in the Sustainable Finance Unit of DG CLIMA in the European Commission, worked for the FDFA of Switzerland in Brazil, where she informed government actors on green hydrogen potential, and was a Research Associate for public sector innovation at the Smart Government Lab of the University of St. Gallen. She holds a Masters in Business Innovation and Certification in Managing Climate Solutions from the University of St Gallen and was trained in design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford d.School. In her Master thesis, she conducted qualitative research on innovative financing responses to human mobility in the context of climate change.
A stakeholder- and technology-specific approach to overcoming investment barriers
A regional and technology-specific approach to overcoming investment barriers
How can we mobilise and redirect green finance at the scale necessary to drive meaningful change?