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Critical Minerals
Social Wealth

Paul Katz

Senior VP

As Senior Vice President in Social Wealth, Paul leads an international team that helps public financial institutions drive sustainable and equitable growth, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Partnering with diverse stakeholders, including sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), national development banks (NDBs), civil society groups, philanthropy, and industry, the Social Wealth team works to develop, socialize, and implement innovative strategies to leverage public assets in service of national development goals.

Paul’s track record includes incubating and scaling new initiatives, from sovereign wealth fund governance to energy transition financing and shareholder democracy, that bridge research, policy, and technology to empower communities and public officials. He is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and can strain to keep up in French. Paul holds a PhD in Latin American political history from Columbia and a BA summa cum laude in history and literature from Harvard and has completed specializations and fellowships at research institutions in Brazil, Argentina, and France.

Related Publication Series

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.

Related Initiatves

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.

Related Tools

FeMCI

A tool for governments to explore hypothetical portfolios, visualize trade offs between risk and returns, and estimate investment fees.

Publications