Dr José Luis Reséndiz
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Sustainable Finance
Profile
José Luis is a Research Associate at the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, where his work focuses on systemic risks in the financial system arising from the energy transition and frontier artificial intelligence technologies. He serves as Chapter Scientist for the Finance chapter of the IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Seventh Assessment Report and was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at the National University of Singapore.
He holds a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford. His doctoral research examined the financial dimensions of the transition to a low-carbon economy across three areas: the design of disclosure architectures for corporate transition plans, the pricing of transition risk in sustainability-linked debt, and the asset pricing implications of coal phase-outs.
Prior to his academic work at Oxford, José Luis spent more than a decade working across public policy, energy finance, and advisory roles. He held senior positions in energy and environmental policy in the Mexican government. His work with the World Bank focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency investment pipelines in Southeast Asia, alongside the mobilisation of climate adaptation and nature finance. He also advised the World Health Organization on financing structures aimed at mobilising private capital for projects with climate and public-health co-benefits. Earlier in his career, he led due diligence on renewable energy investments across Latin America and the United States.
He has advised standards-setting and policy bodies including the Global Reporting Initiative and the UK Transition Plan Taskforce, and contributed to market reviews commissioned by HM Treasury, including the Transition Finance Market Review.
