Katy Wilson

Katy is a PhD student at the Yale School of Environment studying corporate climate transitions and private environmental governance. Her research examines how companies are reshaping their business models to support decarbonization, with a particular focus on evaluating the effectiveness of voluntary climate initiatives and developing frameworks to assess corporate climate action using forward-looking indicators.

Her experience spans climate finance, risk assessment, and sustainability strategy. She previously worked at The Demex Group, where she led the development of their Climate Risk Assessment platform. She has also collaborated with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Climate Bonds Initiative to explore accountability mechanisms for corporate climate commitments and transition finance frameworks. During her master's, she worked with Columbia's Earth Institute on climate vulnerability modeling and served as a contributing author to the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report.

At Yale, she serves as a teaching fellow for the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy certificate program and has contributed to research at the Center for Environmental Law and Policy on carbon markets and climate litigation.

Katy holds a BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Climate and Society from Columbia University's Climate School, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar.