Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang

Jodi-Ann is a PhD candidate in International Development and a member of St Hughs College. A central theme in her research is how finance reproduces structures of power, inequity, and ecological catastrophe in the Global South. Grounded in the experience of disaster risk financing in Jamaica, her doctoral project interrogates how finance emerged as such a prominent and promised solution to the climate crisis, and what effects will come of it.

Her research is shaped by her involvement in the climate justice movement and her professional experience in sustainable finance and just transition policy. She previously worked as a Climate Policy Specialist for the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. More recently, she was a Global Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment (London School of Economics), where she led global policy advocacy and engagement of the Just Transition Finance Lab.

She holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge where she was a Tom Charlton scholar. She received her BA in International Studies with High Honors from Kenyon College where she was also a jazz trombonist.

Jodi-Ann is committed to research that contributes to civil society organising and climate justice advocacy. Her work has supported grassroots and international position-building across multilateral climate negotiations, and she writes and speaks regularly on climate justice and the international political economy across a range of public and policy-facing platforms. She always welcomes opportunities for exchange on her research, and for building communities of solidarity committed to imagining and building transformative futures.