Jackson is a senior software developer on the PACTA team at RMI’s Center for Climate-Aligned Finance, where he develops methodologies and tools to measure the alignment of financial portfolios to climate transition scenarios. Notably, he led the development of the PACTA for Banks software toolkit and has worked on climate alignment projects with financial supervisors such as the New York Department of Financial Services and with banks such as Citi, ING, and UBS.

Background

Previously, Jackson worked as a researcher and software developer at the 2 Degrees Investing Initiative, where he helped develop and scale PACTA. He also worked as a researcher in experimental cosmology, where he used nonparametric machine learning models to identify and classify type Ia supernova events.

Education

B.Sc., Physics, McGill University