Zega Ras-Work

Background

About Zega Ras-Work

Zega Ras-Work is a multilingual climate professional with experience across finance, policy, and academia specializing in the global energy transition and climate solutions. He works at Karbone as an analyst in the Research Group, supporting energy sector clients with environmental attribute pricing data, economic and regulatory analysis, and quantitative market research. Zega aspires to advance renewable energy systems in emerging markets like Ethiopia, where he grew up. He is a recent graduate of Columbia University's Climate School. At the Climate School, Zega worked as an intern with the Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies on the Watershed Agricultural Program to design responses to modeled climate impacts on agricultural production systems. He was also a Departmental Research Assistant with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society analyzing financial instruments to insure at-risk farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, Zega graduated from Georgetown University with First Honors in Anthropology, with minors in Economics and Environmental Science.