Professor Tom Heller

Thomas Heller is the Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies (emeritus) at Stanford University and the Director of Stanford’s Sustainability Finance Initiative at the Precourt Energy Institute.  From 2009-16, he founded and served as Executive Director of a non-governmental analysis group, the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI).  Since April 1, 2016 Heller has served as Board Chair and Senior Strategic Advisor to CPI. 

CPI is recognized globally as a leading source of empirical analysis in its core programmatic areas of climate finance, energy transitions, and transformative agriculture.  CPI assesses, evaluates and advises governments and private firms on the system dynamics and transition risks associated with technological, organizational, investment and institutional practices consistent with low carbon, high productivity economies.  CPI work programs focus on locally situated, effective uses of fiscal, monetary, prudential and financial policies that regulate the energy, land use and mobility sectors driving climate change. 

Heller’s recent views are briefly summarized in “Three Perspectives: Climate, Sustainability and Finance”, Precourt Institute, Stanford University.