Joseph Curtin is a Managing Director on the Power & Climate team, which is aimed at scaling up energy access and accelerating an inclusive energy transition in emerging markets. Joe currently leads the Foundation’s coal to clean programme, including the Coal to Clean Crediting, Coal Pipeline, JET-P and the Energy Transition Accelerator initiatives. He also leads the Foundation’s programmes focused on human capital and institutional development for energy transition in Africa.
Prior to joining the Foundation, he was a member of the Irish Government’s Climate Change Advisory Council and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of International and European Affairs. He previously worked for the OECD evaluating the climate policy performance of countries across the world, for the National Economic and Social Council (an advisory body to the Irish Prime Minister) and at University College Cork. He has contributed on coal transition, climate mitigation, climate finance and international climate negotiations to the New York Times, BBC, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, the Atlantic, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and has published on these topics in leading academic journals.
He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics, and he has a Ph.D. on climate finance from University College Cork.
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Feb 20 2023 Perspective Fighting the Climate Crisis with Carbon Credits Carbon credits have both advocates and critics. Our Joseph Curtin explains how carbon credits can be a force for good.