Clothilde Venereau

Manager - Climate Intelligence Unit @ Macquarie Group

About

Clothilde is currently a Manager in Macquarie Group’s Climate Intelligence Unit, where she supports investment research, strategy, and business development across climate and the energy transition. Prior to joining Macquarie, Clothilde was a Senior Associate at Energy Impact Partners, a climate tech investment firm with over $4 billion in assets under management. There, she led European research efforts in carbon management, clean fuels, and ESG, supporting deal diligence, investor engagement, and portfolio value creation. Earlier in her career, she worked in investment and sustainability advisory at Plug and Play Tech Center, and in climate and energy research at Queensland Investment Corporation and Climate Policy Initiative. Clothilde holds a Master’s in Energy Resources Engineering from Stanford University and a First Class Honours degree in Geophysics from Imperial College London. Her academic research, focused on energy systems modelling and climate risk assessment in infrastructure, has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Country

United Kingdom

City

London

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Mathematics, Python, Matlab, Research

Experience

project team lead

stanford energy club

2019-12 - Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

1) Leading a team of 10 students to conduct a research project as part of the Sustainable Finance Community at the Stanford Energy Club. 2) Working in collaboration with the Stanford Sustainable Finance Initiative on the systemic risks of climate change and impacts of different climate scenarios on energy infrastructure asset valuation.

energy finance analyst

climate policy initiative

2019-6 - 2019-8 · 3 mos

* Contributed to Climate Policy Initiative, a global non-profit think-tank and consultancy developing solutions to accelerate and lower the cost of a low carbon energy transition. * Created a comprehensive database of European utilities (17 companies part of the Stoxx Europe 600 Index) power generation fleet and level of exposure to climate change. * Performed financial modelling in Excel under different climate scenarios to assess exposure to climate transition risk.

undergraduate teaching assistant

imperial college london

2018-1 - 2018-3 · 3 mos

1. Worked as a Teaching Assistant for 2nd year undergraduate students in Geophysics/Seismology. 2. Helped students with code/shell scripting related problems and answered questions about concepts covered during the lectures.

undergraduate research assistant

imperial college london

2015-9 - 2015-9 · 1 mo

1. Collected and conducted a statistical analysis on North Sea oil well data for >300 sites. 2. Collaborated with Statoil (now Equinor) to access data.

summer analyst

bank of america merrill lynch

2017-6 - 2017-8 · 3 mos

* Summer analyst in Global Corporate and Investment Banking Wholesale Credit division. * Part of the Emerging Markets team, covering both financial institution and corporate credit risk and delivering credit opinions through in-depth counterparty and industry research. * Exposure to a variety of debt and traded products (Term loans, RCFs and derivatives).

work experience

herbert smith freehills

2013-7 - 2013-7 · 1 mo

A month spent in the Finance, Corporate and Disputes Divisions of the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, helping and assisting associate lawyers with their current cases, with many of them relating to oil and gas deals.

graduate research assistant

stanford university

2019-12 - 2019-9

1) Conducting part-time (20h/week) research in the Benson Lab in the department of Energy and Resources Engineering. 2) Research topic: assessing the impact of different electricity demand scenarios on capacity expansion modeling of California's electricity grid to meet SB100 decarbonization goals.