Dr Fiona Bannert

Fiona Bannert is a Senior Fellow at the lill Institute for Public Value.

Her work covers public policy, economic competitiveness, and development and climate finance. Her doctoral research at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, developed a system approach to the governance and coordination of climate finance at country level. She worked as a Senior Financing Partnerships Specialists at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) between 2017 and 2025. Before, she was a Manager in the Economics and Policy practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) focusing on public sector advisory and, in particular, project finance and renewable energy projects.

Fiona was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) (Diploma) and Universidad de Sevilla, the University of Nottingham (MSc) and Northumbria University (PhD).