Our Team

Jakob Thomae is one of the leading global experts on sustainable finance and long-term risks, and entrepreneur with a track record of incubating commercial and non-commercial sustainability solutions. He co-founded the 2° Investing Initiative entities in New York and Berlin and serves as Research Director of Theia Finance Labs. His book "Der Kill Score: Auf der Spur unseres ökologischen und sozialen Fußabdruck" explores the impact of sustainability on human lives

Over the past 10 years, Jakob has led the development of a range of sustainability solutions, with a focus on designing business models for both public and commercial goods. Jakob led the incubation of PACTA, the first methodology and tool to measure the alignment of financial portfolios with climate goals, and today the most widely used alignment methodology in the world. He led the negotations of the PACTA transfer to RMI in 2022. Jakob also co-led as Managing Director of 2DII the incubation of AssetResolution, now a commercial data company. Current ventures include MyFairMoney, 1in1000, and TransitionMonitor, as well as a venture on climate-related SME data.

Jakob is Special Research Fellow to the Japanese Financial Services Agency, and previously served as Academic Advisor to the Bank of England and EIOPA. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers. Jakob is also Senior Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he teaches a Green Finance course.

Antonio joined Theia Finance Labs as an analyst in September 2022. He works as part of the stress testing team in the 1in1000 program. Previously, he worked as a climate impact analyst for the Frankfurt based Climate tech “right.”, where he focused on the Paris agreement alignment and climate impact of individual companies and portfolios to different climate change scenarios. Before that, Antonio worked as a research assistant in the area of corporate liability.
Antonio holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration with a major in Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics and a BSC in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg.

Prior to joining Theia in May 2023, Bertrand worked in data analytics applied to marketing, where he gained experience in developing econometric models and bringing them to production. His focus is to improve the stability and speed of the models developed in the 1in1000 team, in order to make them easier to adopt by financial institutions.
He holds a Master of Engineering from EIGSI La Rochelle, and a Msc in data science from DSTI.