Bradford Willis

Bradford Willis

Senior Associate, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Bradford M. Willis is a Senior Associate at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. He focuses on integrated policy and financing strategies to accelerate the transition of energy, industry, and natural resource systems around the world. Most recently, he was a Special Advisor to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, where he focused on developing sustainable investment mechanisms, shaping regional transition pathways, and bridging public-private action to unlock and scale just, climate-aligned economic transformation.

He began his career working on energy transition and net zero related topics for major utilities and energy service providers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, & Africa. In 2021, He began working with the World Economic Forum’s Transitioning Industrial Clusters Initiative supporting the regional decarbonization of hard-to-abate industry. In the lead up to COP28, he was Seconded to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions to lead their Clean Power & Green Hydrogen before transitioning to high-level advisory on cross-sectoral breakthrough targets for key industries and enabling policy/finance mechanisms.

He now advises private sector leaders, national and subnational governments, and multilateral organizations on the structural shifts needed to align investment, infrastructure, and policy with 21st-century climate and development goals. He works across industries, geographies, and intersecting spheres of political and economic influence to bridge sustainable development, finance, and global polycrisis responses.



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