Isabel Estevez

Isabel Estevez (isaestevez.com) is an institutional and development economist focusing on the dynamics of economic transformations, nature-economy relationships, and green transitions. She has advised policymakers in the US, Europe, and Latin America, as well as multilaterals and civil society organizations, on the design of transformative industrial policies. She has published widely on strategic public investment, trade, procurement, and (green) industrial strategy. Isabel served as Deputy Director of Industrial Policy and Trade at the Roosevelt Institute’s Climate and Economic Transformation Program and Senior Policy Advisor for green industrial policy at the Sierra Club in the United States, and has advised various governments, the G20, and the World Bank, among others. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in the use of industrial policy for economic transformation. Isabel is Co-Executive Director of the industrial strategy think tank i3T and a member of Common Wealth’s Green Planning Commission. She has taught at the University of Cambridge and Goldsmiths, University of London.