Jun Rentschler is an Economist at the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR, World Bank). Prior to first joining The World Bank in 2012, he served as an Economic Adviser at the German Foreign Ministry, where he focused on economic and energy policy. He spent two years as an economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) working on investment projects in resource efficiency and climate change. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, following previous affiliations with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Jun holds a PhD in Economics from University College London (UCL), specializing in development, climate, and energy. He has published widely on these topics, including in academic journals and his books Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms: A Guide to Economic and Political Complexity (Routledge, 2018) and Investing in Resource Efficiency: The Economics and Politics of Financing the Resource Transition (Springer, 2018).