Yasmin Meerholz

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Yasmin Meerholz

Economist

Yasmin is a financial economist with two years’ experience covering the private and public sector, particularly supporting the modelling of socio-economic and financial economic projects for the renewable energy sector and just transition. Their work at Rabia focuses on transition risk facing coal-dependent countries, climate risk for financial actors with a focus on energy transition dynamics, and climate data gap analysis for central banks. Yasmin has a Masters in economics from the University of the Witwatersrand specialising in capital flows and public economics. Their thesis focused on analysing the response of capital flows in South Africa to economic factors such as a change in the fiscal deficit. Yasmin is passionate about uncovering what is needed to create equitable development across the African continent and believes that the energy transition provides an avenue through which this can be achieved.