Dr Matt Burke

Matt joined the University of Sheffield after working as a Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. He completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia, where he studied issues in empirical asset pricing, and subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge. 

Matt has held visiting positions at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and has served as an advisor to Earth Capital Nexus at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the climaTRACES Lab at the University of Cambridge. He has also worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Standard Chartered, and NatureFinance. His research won the Financial Times' "Academic Research with Impact" award for work on environmental degradation and sovereign risk. His research has also been featured in widely read financial media, including Bloomberg, Reuters, and the Financial Times.