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Launched in fall 2024 with support from major philanthropic partners, FETI is an initiative that works with governments and investors around the globe on the technical assistance, modeling, and financial structuring needed for a just green transition.

Phenomenal World Books is a partnership between our publication and the University of Chicago Press. Starting in 2026, the series will publish books on our core themes from our network of contributors, and reissues of relevant political economy texts from the past, under the imprimatur of the largest academic press in the United States. The board for our series is Adam Tooze, Melinda Cooper, Ndongo Samba Sylla, Daniela Gabor, Mehrsa Baradaran, and Destin Jenkins. 

The Center for Active Stewardship (CAS), a project of the Jain Family Institute, accelerates shareholder action for the public good. CAS gives asset owners the data and tools they need to ensure their investments are managed in line with their values, and supports advocacy organizations with tools and resources to conduct research and build more effective shareholder campaigns. In 2025, CAS launched the first database of all U.S. funds’ proxy votes that is free, downloadable, and easily accessible. We have also built a comprehensive ratings system that scores thousands of asset managers and funds by their votes on climate proposals.

The Brazilian Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds builds pathways for increasing the capacity of publicly-held assets to fund bold new social programs. Starting in 2021, JFI SVP Paul Katz worked with a diverse array of subnational funds (from the cities of Niterói, Maricá, and Ilhabela; and the state of Espírito Santo) to create the Forum of Brazilian Sovereign Wealth Funds, which is now an associate member of the International Forum of SWFs, the industry’s major professional organization.

We are working with the Climate Vulnerable Forum V20 and its group of ~70 finance ministries to build practical, data-driven tools to advance their sustainable development and green transition goals. Our multidisciplinary team, combining backgrounds in finance, economics, data science, and software development, conducts research, builds models, and provides technical assistance and capacity-building training, working directly with CVFV20 members to explore innovative financial architectures. These range in scale from project-level capital structuring to transnational trade, liquidity, and derisking mechanisms. 

As part of its Critical Minerals Portfolio, JFI is developing tools for mineral-producing countries to design taxes, duties, royalties, and trade policies. The Mining Fiscal Regime Simulator (MiFRS) enables robust revenue forecasting, more resilient fiscal design, and more informed participation from civil society. Key partners in this work include the Intergovernmental Forum for Mining, the Natural Resource Governance Institute, and the Brazilian Subnational Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, among others.

With the support of a major philanthropic gift in 2023, Phenomenal World became an international publication, building out teams of commissioning editors and translators across Latin America. Our team now includes twelve editors based across the US, UK, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. With an audience of over 22,500 dedicated subscribers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and average monthly readership of 45,000, we have also cross-published work in translation in China, Italy, Germany, Spain, Lebanon, and elsewhere.  

JFI partnered with political leaders and researchers in Brazil to assess a 42,000-recipient guaranteed income policy. Working with Maricá’s mayor, Fabiano Horta, formal federal senator Eduardo Suplicy, and researchers from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, JFI’s empirical team designed a study to scrutinize the unique effects of the world’s largest and richest city-based cash transfers.

In this long-running research series (2019-2025), JFI’s Higher Education Finance team has built a country-wide analysis and visualization of student debt and its relationship with demographics, schools, and labor market characteristics, and how these relationships have changed over the past decade. This uniquely rich and granular data project has informed Congressional committees, major media analyses, and the work of student-advocacy coalitions.

Robert Smith partnered with JFI’s implementation team to build the Student Freedom Initiative, which disburses funds to students at dozens of HBCUs and MSIs.  With flexible income-contingent financing and student supports, this program alleviates student loan burdens, which disproportionately affect Black and minority populations. JFI created the program’s design and analytics.

JFI is a partner of Data Insights for Social & Humanitarian Action (DISHA), an initiative of UN Global Pulse that aims to gather and make public third-party data in service of humanitarian and development goals. A member of DISHA’s steering committee, JFI provides guidance on ethics, oversight, and applied research as part of our AI for the Public Good affiliate initiative.