Nicolas Maennling leads the economics and policy research at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. From 2011-2012, he advised the Ministry of Finance in East Timor on issues including inflation, macroeconomic forecasting and fiscal sustainability. Previously, he spent three years in Mozambique, including as an ODI fellow in the Ministry of Industry and Trade working on the design and implementation of Mozambique’s industrial policy.