Christina Pastoria

Christina Pastoria

Manager
  • Climate-Aligned Finance

Christina is a Manager on the Climate Finance Program, working to increase access to capital for high capex industrial projects. Her work is focused on accelerating financial market learning to rapidly de-risk critical technologies and increase technologies. This work is not technology or sector specific, but focuses on key industrial and electricity decarbonization technologies.

Background

During her time at RMI, Christina has provided market analysis and investment decision support for numerous e-fuels projects in the U.S. Gulf Coast. Her work focused on scenario modeling, market sizing, and price discovery for hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and sustainable aviation fuel projects across a number of end use sectors.

Before graduate school, Christina worked as an economic analyst with the State of Michigan’s Office of the Great Lakes for nearly four years. Her work focused on demonstrating the socioeconomic value of environmental restoration and pollution remediation. She also supported efforts to revitalize Michigan’s economy through investment in water resources.

Education

MS, Environment and Sustainability, Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan
MA, Applied Economics, University of Michigan
BS, Economics, Michigan State University
BA, International Relations, Michigan State University