Online & In-Person
Seminar

Financing the Energy Transition

RSVP Required Open to the Public

An Energy Policy Seminar with Anne Finucane, former Vice Chair of Bank of America and Chair of Bank of America Europe.

RSVP

Anne Finucane, the former Vice Chair of Bank of America and Chair of Bank of America Europe, will share her reflections on financing the energy transition in a fireside chat with Professor Joe Aldy. Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: RSVP required. A Harvard University ID is required for in-person attendance; all are welcome to attend via Zoom.

Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the Belfer Center's YouTube channel. 

Accessibility: To request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Co-Sponsors: Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability

About the Speaker

Anne Finucane was the first female Vice Chair of Bank of America and Chair of Bank of America Europe, until retiring as European chair in December 2022. She is Senior Advisor to TPG Rise Climate Fund and Chair of its carbon credit company, Rubicon Carbon.

While at Bank of America, she established and co-chaired the bank’s $1 trillion climate finance initiative. She also led global public policy, chaired the company’s global charitable foundation, which during her tenure deployed more than $4 billion in philanthropic giving; and oversaw corporate strategy, marketing, data and analytics and media for two decades. 

Anne serves as a board member or advisor to a number of leading organizations. She is a board member of CVS Health, Williams-Sonoma, Special Olympics, ONE, and Oath Soil Life. She is a member of Bank of America’s Global Advisory Council; the Council on Foreign Relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Geopolitical Advisory Council; and was a member of President's Intelligence Advisory Board, appointed by President Biden in 2022. Previously, she was a member of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Anne has consistently been highlighted in the world’s “most powerful women” lists in Forbes, Fortune, and American Banker. In 2025, she received the Women in Business and Philanthropy Award from the Ireland Funds. In 2024, she was honored by 9/11 Memorial & Museum and its Chairman Mike Bloomberg for her Philanthropic Leadership. In 2021, she received the Carnegie Hall Medal of Excellence, and in 2019 she received the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Inspired Leadership Award.

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Speaker

Anne Finucane