Andrew Eil
Andrew Eil is a policy, finance, and risk specialist focusing on climate change-related issues with broad experience in international affairs across the public and private sectors. From February 2022 until November 2024, Andrew was Head of Climate Risk for North America with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where he advised banks, insurers, and asset managers on assessing and managing their climate-related financial and operational risk. He is currently a consultant on climate-themed investing and climate risk as well as an active climate tech venture investor and advisor to start-ups across a range of technologies, market verticals, and geographies. He also serves as a deal scout for Alumni Ventures and mentor for Third Derivative, a leading climate-focused deeptech incubator. His areas of expertise include climate change policy, blended finance, geopolitics, climate resilience, insurance, and climate risk management and disclosure.
An independent consultant from 2014 to 2018 specializing in climate change and clean energy policy, international development, and sustainable investing, Andrew Eil joined Climate Finance Advisors (CFA) as a managing partner at the start-up phase in 2018. He and three partners led and grew CFA, a boutique advisory firm, to a team of 20 until December 2021, when it was acquired by Canadian engineering firm WSP. His clients at CFA and while independent included the World Bank Group, UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Interamerican Development Bank, U.S. Department of State, the World Bank, InsuResilience Investment Fund, the Green Climate Fund, Climate-KIC, ICF, and Bloomberg LLP.
Andrew is a frequent speaker, panelist, and writer on climate and sustainability issues. Since 2023, Andrew has been an opinion writer for the Observer on climate change, reprising a role he had from 2015 to 2018, and a contributing columnist with Illuminem, a leading online sustainability outlet. During 2022 and 2023, Andrew was creative director of the virtual speaker series at the Global Adaptation and Resilience Investment (GARI) Working Group, organizing and hosting ten panel webinars.
As coordinator of climate assistance programs for the U.S. Department of State from 2010 to 2014, Andrew managed clean energy programs and diplomatic initiatives designed to assist developing countries to accelerate their transition to low-carbon growth pathways. Andrew also advised Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern on climate policy. His program and policy areas of focus included short-lived climate pollutants (methane, black carbon, and hydrofluorocarbons), energy efficiency and off-grid solar power, and geographic regions including India, Russia, and the Arctic.
Prior to the State Department, Andrew worked as a consultant for the World Bank and International Finance Corporation from 2009 to 2010, contributing a paper for the World Bank Group's energy strategy on early-stage energy technology investment. From 2003 to 2007, Andrew worked at the Eurasia Foundation's Central Asia regional office in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he as director of development built and managed a portfolio of government- and privately-funded programs to promote civic engagement, entrepreneurship, and improved public administration in the former Soviet Union.
Andrew has a masters in international development from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (2009) and a BA in Russian history and literature from Harvard (2002). A Fulbright fellow in Moscow (2002-03) and a Critical Language Study fellow in Harbin, China (summer 2009), he speaks Russian, French, and Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. He is a GARP Sustainability & Climate Risk (SCR) certificate holder (2022), CFA (Certified Financial Analyst) candidate, level II (2014), SASB Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) candidate, level II (2017), holder of the Columbia University certificates in venture capital and private equity (2023) and sustainable finance (2020).
