Alumni Spotlight: Elisa Cifiello (BA IR ’20) on her Career in Climate Finance

Elisa Cifiello (BA IR ’20), now an Associate at Clarmondial in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects on how her Pardee School education shaped her path into climate and sustainable finance. After early roles as a Data Analyst, International & European Relations Analyst, and Climate Finance Analyst, where she consistently worked with complex datasets, cross‑team collaboration, and policy…

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Gallagher Op-Ed Challenges IMF Austerity in the Global South

In a recent Project Syndicate op-ed, “Escaping the IMF Austerity Trap,” Pardee Professor and Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Director, Kevin P. Gallagher, co-authoring with Kenyan economist and former finance minister Njūgūna S. Ndūng’ū, critiques the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) continued reliance on austerity-driven lending programs in the Global South. Against the backdrop of global…

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Gallagher on the IMF Amid Changing Global Power

Pardee Professor and Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Director, Kevin P. Gallagher was interviewed by Bloomberg in a segment, “Can the World’s Economic Firefighter Adapt to the 21st Century?,” addressing the current state of the The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and criticism of its ability of appropriately provide aid when global powers have shifted. Gallagher…

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Gallagher and Springer Discuss Trends in Chinese Overseas Development Finance

Professor Gallagher and Cecilia Han Springer talk about new findings from the GDP Center’s “China’s Global Energy Finance Database,” and outline China’s declining energy sector loans and what that means for future development financing and global green energy investments.

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