Christophe Christiaen

Profile

Christophe is the Data, Innovation and Impact Lead within the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, developing innovation strategy and partnerships for the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment as well as the Spatial Finance Initiative which he co-founded. He also created and runs the Satellite Applications Catapult's Sustainable Finance value stream, stimulating geospatial technology innovations for the financial services market. At the Catapult he has worked across numerous national and international technology innovation projects in strategy advisory capacities and supported multiple technology start-ups and SMEs with the commercialisation of their products. Previously Christophe held roles at the European Space Agency, working as a business analyst and at Henkel, working across credit management and sales controlling. Christophe holds an MSc in Business Engineering from the University of Antwerp, specialising in finance, accountancy, and environmental economics.

Projects

• Sustainable future of commodities & infrastructure
• Spatial finance

Publications

• Christiaen, C., Coote, A. and Wills, S. (2021) State and Trends of Spatial Finance 2021: Next Generation Climate and Environmental Analytics for Resilient Finance. Spatial Finance Initiative. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford.