Lea Reitmeier
Lea is a policy analyst in sustainable finance with a particular focus on the risks and impacts from environmental degradation to the financial system.
Background
Lea holds an MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in Economics from University College Dublin (UCD). She has spent 3 years working at Deutsche Bank AG, as a sustainability specialist focusing on the disclosure and strategic integration of non-financial metrics. She also worked in teams in the investment bank on ESG-linked debt and equity capital transactions, as well as analysing the implications of regulatory changes for corporate clients. Additionally, she was Deutsche Bank’s secondee to the Value Balancing Alliance, contributing to the development of a sector agnostic impact measurement methodology. During her MSc she also worked for the Grantham Research Institute and the International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights Research and Exchange (INSPIRE) on central banks.
Research interests
• Sustainable finance
• Physical climate and catastrophe risk
• Central banking and financial supervision
Research
Research - 2024
This report outlines the key outcomes from an LSE roundtable discussion convened on 27-28 September 2024. Read more
Policy
Policy - 2024
The services provided by the ocean and marine ecosystems are pivotal to sustaining life on Earth and underpin vital interactions between the climate, economy and human wellbeing. But the ocean and marine ecosystems are under threat from climate change and the impacts of harmful economic activities. Read more
This response consists of a written submission by CETEx to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) consultation on a disclosure framework for climate-related financial risk (CRFR). Read more
Events
News
News - 2024
The gap in adaptation finance to support developing countries poses particular challenges for highly-vulnerable Small Island Developing States, who might turn to environmentally-damaging alternatives such as deep-sea mining as a result, this commentary explains. Read more
This article reports on recent efforts to establish a global deal to limit plastic pollution as well as the COP29 climate summit and COP16 Biodiversity summit. Read more
This article reflects on the discussions taking place at COP16 about digital sequence information. The article includes reference to an... Read more
This news article considers some of the main topics under discussion at the COP16 United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Columbia. Read more
The Biodiversity COP16 conference will be critical to advancing comprehensive ocean biodiversity conservation efforts. Ambitious commitments are needed – especially... Read more
The integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations, including on climate change, into banks’ decision-making processes has been given more importance over the last few years, predominantly driven by regulatory pressures – especially in the EU. Read more
This commentary captures the discussion on blue finance at the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona in April 2024. Read more
News - 2023
This commentary examines the ‘why, how and what’ of risks to the real economy and financial system deriving from damage to ecosystem services and habitats. Read more
