Dr Chiara Mariotti

Dr Chiara Mariotti is a Research Associate at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance. 

She is a development economist with over 18 years of experience in research, policy, and advocacy on international development, economic justice and development finance. She has worked in academia, think tanks, civil society and philanthropy in London and Brussels. Currently, she serves as Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, where she leads work on financing for development and Beyond GDP metrics. 

Previously, Chiara coordinated the Debt Sustainability Initiative at Open Society Foundations, managing a multi-million-dollar grant portfolio and shaping strategies on debt and fiscal justice. She has also worked with Oxfam and with Eurodad (European Network on Debt and Development), leading research and advocacy on inequality, international financial architecture reforms, and IMF and World Bank lending and conditionalities. Her recent research includes collaboration with the Global Development Centre at Boston University on multilateral and national development bank partnerships to scale climate finance. She is an associate of the Italian climate think tank ECCO, for which she has written on Italy’s role in the African debt crisis, and she serves as Trustee of the charity Debt Justice. 

Chiara holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, University of London and she has taught development economics at SOAS and Bath University.