Ely Sandler

Ely Sandler is a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program.

At Harvard, Ely teaches the Master’s course, “Financing the Clean Energy Transition,” and leads a seminar on Space Policy. His research focuses on energy policy,  infrastructure finance, cost of capital, and outer space. Ely’s work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reuters and Bloomberg, and called a "trend to watch" by the Financial Times. 

Outside his academic work, Ely is Co-Founder of the Article Six Group, an infrastructure finance and investment firm developing large-scale energy project across the world. He is also an advisor at Aurelia Foundry, a leading space tech venture capital fund.

Ely’s background is in economics and finance; he served as a senior consultant to the World Bank, and previously worked at Morgan Stanley for nearly a decade across investment banking, capital markets, and senior management. Ely is also a founding Board Member of 50:50 Startups, the non-profit tech accelerator for Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs.

Ely graduated with distinction from the University of Oxford with a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he received a distinction for his thesis. His PHD is at Oxford University in Environmental Economics.