Predoctoral Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program/Science, Technology, Public Policy Program (2026 - )
Lucia Fuselli is an energy-transition and climate finance expert whose work focuses on mobilizing institutional capital and shaping governance to translate transition ambitions into credible, investable and resilient infrastructure. Operating at the intersection of finance, institutional strategy, and public policy, she examines how governments, international organizations and financial institutions can convert long-term climate, energy-security, and technological objectives into credible investment frameworks and executable programs.
She is particularly interested in how innovative financial structures can reduce financing constraints and attract sovereign and commercial investors at scale. Lucia's experience includes leading energy and climate diplomacy initiatives associated with the World Economic Forum, COP28 and the international convening to mobilize the financing of grid transformation. She also has more than a decade of expert and lead engagements within multilateral lenders (Green Climate Fund, European Investment Bank, AFD) and European Institutions (EU Innovation Agency).
More recently, she has helped sovereign institutions, investors and industry develop frameworks, national multi-stakeholder lending platforms and regional climate investment programs.
A central theme of other work is the gap between transition ambitions and capital deployment. She studies how institutional, multilateral and private investors can synergize to optimize mobilization of balance sheets, create new investable asset classes and finance technological innovation more strategically to create resilient energy and infrastructure markets.
Her emerging research also seeks to identify governance and financing models that enable technological development while protecting public value, in particular considering the interactions between AI and physical infrastructure and how they could become catalytic, rather than detrimental to, security and climate resilience ambitions.