Social Wealth

Paul Katz

VP and Lead Researcher

Paul Katz leads JFI’s social wealth portfolio and coordinates the Institute’s work in Brazil, supporting the quantitative side of the Maricá basic income study while heading JFI’s contributions to the qualitative part of the research. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude in History and Literature from Harvard, a Ph.D. in political history from Columbia, and a specialization in the social sciences from Argentina’s National University of Luján. Paul’s academic work has been supported by fellowships from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, Columbia’s Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

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Mineral Wealth and Electrification

The energy transition represents a significant opportunity for countries producing the materials critical to electrification. In this series, we look at eight such materials: aluminum, cobalt, copper, natural graphite, iron, lithium, manganese, and nickel. As demand for so-called “critical minerals” grows, producer countries must develop robust strategies for effective value capture to transform a temporary windfall into an opportunity to grow shared wealth and climb the value chain. Doing so demands both institutional capacity and political will.

Social Wealth Seminar

An ongoing virtual forum exploring strategies to manage public assets and resources in service of society, in the United States and across the world.

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Financing the Energy Transition

Social Wealth

We build tools, conduct research, and develop partnerships to help transform public assets into long-term financial portfolios in service of the public interest.