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. Her background combines academic research and years of experience advising governments, multilaterals, and advocacy organizations on the design of transformative industrial policies to promote human and natural flourishing—a theme she explores in her forthcoming book The Flourishing Economy. She is Senior Research Advisor at Oxford University’s TIDE center and has served as Deputy Director of Industrial Policy and Trade at the Roosevelt Institute’s Climate and Economic Transformation Program, Senior Policy Advisor for green industrial policy at the Sierra Club, and has advised the Ecuadorian Ministry of Planning and Development, among others. Isabel holds a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, where she specialized in the use of industrial policy for economic transformation.