Moritz Baer

Biography

Moritz Baer is an Associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, with expertise in scenario analysis, transition risk modelling, and climate finance. He is an advisor to the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, supporting the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, and is a Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Transition Expertise (CETEx). At Oxford, he is also affiliated with the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, where he was the founding manager of the Environmental Stress Testing and Scenarios Programme (ESTS). Moritz has a proven track record of bridging academic modelling with the practical needs of the financial sector to create decision-relevant tools. He collaborates actively with international initiatives, policymakers, and practitioners, including the Bank of England, the Climate Financial Risk Forum, the Secretariat for the Finance Sector Expert Group for Race to Zero (FSEG) at the UNFCCC, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and various central banks and supervisors. After completing his DPhil at Oxford, Moritz co-founded Forward Analytics, a specialist firm providing data, models, and analytics to support financial decision-making in the net-zero transition. Since 2020, he has also been active in the art world, supporting emerging creators, curators, and collectors through his non-executive role at Von Racknitz + Baer Gallery.