Simon Black

Mr. Simon Black is a climate economist at the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department where he specializes in carbon pricing, environmental taxation and climate mitigation. Before joining the IMF, he was a climate economist at the World Bank, a climate economist at the UK’s foreign ministry, and served as a UK negotiator to the UN’s climate body where he helped negotiate the Paris Agreement. He has also worked in financial sector advisory and economic diplomacy. He holds a Master’s degree in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow.