About me

Hello!

I’m an economist by training, who is curious about how fundamental interactions shape the world around us, especially at the cross-roads between the finance, economics, and the environment. I sometimes post on the blog things I find interesting. Although I mostly post about things related to modelling, economics, and the environment, a few other topics may occasionally slip through!

Currently based in Beijing, I am coordinating AIIB’s ESG efforts and support the environmental and social policy assurance for Bank-financed projects. Before joining AIIB, I focused on modelling relationships between the environment and macroeconomy. First, through scenario analysis for multilateral institutions at Cambridge Econometrics, and then by developing bespoke environmental-economic models for estimating supply chain emissions (scope 3) at Carbon Trust.

Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or drop me a line at finn_henrik@hotmail.com. If you're ever curious about any of the code, you can find it on github, I try my best to keep it well documented.

experience

 
 
 
 
 

Policy & Data Associate - Portfolio Quality

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Apr 2024 – Present Beijing, China

• Coordinating the Bank’s internal ESG efforts

• Supporting policy assurance for environmental and social safeguards

• Providing analytical and data support for AIIB’s Policy unit

 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist

Carbon Trust

Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 London, United Kingdom

• Pioneered the development of regional and temporal Environmentally Extended Input Output (EEIO) models specifically for scope 3 GHG accounting.

• Estimation and imputation of emission factors for our footprinting and assurance services.

• Built and maintained python tool for screening the physical climate risk of clients’ operations to support TCFD operations.

• Built and automated the company’s data processing pipelines through Microsoft Azure Databricks and Datafactory.

 
 
 
 
 

Economic Modeller

Cambridge Econometrics

Sep 2021 – Jul 2022 Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sep 2020 – Sep 2021 Brussels, Belgium

• Develop bespoke economic models for clients, mostly within the context of net-zero transitions.

• Conduct economic scenario analysis for multinational organisations such as the World Bank, European Climate Foundations, and IRENA.

• Maintain and develop the in-house macroeconometric model (E3ME).

• Process and clean large datasets using Python. Including estimation of renovation cost curves for UK dwellings by analysing data from 20 million properties, and standardising national accounts data for cross-regional analysis.

 
 
 
 
 

Research & Teaching Assistant

NOVA School of Business and Economics

Feb 2019 – Sep 2020 Lisbon, Portugal

• Conducted research on spatial econometrics and how proximity and structural characteristics of parking facilities in Los Angeles affect price-setting behaviour.

• Lead microeconomics tutorials twice a week, solving problem sets and explaining economic concepts to more than 70 marketing and economics students per week.

• Taught GIS at a 2021 summer school in Spatial Analysis, Land Use, and the Environment held at Universidade del Pacific Lima, Peru.

education

MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change

BA Economics & Geography

certificates

Time Series Methods for Macroeconomic Analysis I

Machine Learning with Python - From Linear Models to Deep Learning

Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

CSMM.102x: Machine Learning