Marianne Fay | |
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Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Field | Economics |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Marianne Fay is an American economist and writer. She specializes in infrastructure, development, and climate change.
Marianne Fay received a PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 1994, with a dissertation on "Infrastructure, Income Distribution and Growth".[1]
Fay is an researches economics and global climate change.[2][3] She serves as Chief Economist for the Sustainable Development Vice Presidency at the World Bank, where she previously served as Chief Economist for Climate Change.[4] While working with the World Bank, she has led a number of reports and authored multiple articles on the topics of infrastructure, urbanization, and climate change. She regularly lectures at conferences.[5][6][7][8]
Fay has long-maintained that,— "Climate change represents a direct and immediate threat to poverty alleviation.”[9] In speaking with the Rwanda's The New Times in 2009, she noted,— “Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by climate change... They need scaled-up financial and technological support to help vulnerable people adapt to climate change, while also meeting urgent energy needs.”[10]
In 2010, Fay co-directed the World Development Report on Development and Climate Change, and has contributed to a number of additional World Development Reports.[11][12] In 2012, she became a founding member of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, led by the Global Green Growth Institute, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED), the United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the World Bank.[13] Fay spoke to reporters on the heels of a World Bank report release in 2017 about the need for Latin America to future-proof its infrastructure.[14] She is currently a member of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform's Steering Committee.[15]