William Attwell
William Attwell is Director in Sustainable Fitch’s global research team, where he leads on projects covering climate risk, decarbonisation, transition finance and biodiversity to support decision-makers in fixed income markets to assess market and regulatory developments, trends and risks. William is also an experienced emerging markets economist, having worked at BMI (previously Fitch Solutions Country Risk and Industry Research) and Frontier Strategy Group, where he headed up the Sub-Saharan Africa team, producing analysis and market forecasts, and advising corporate and financial sector clients. He studied economic development and international environmental law, holds an MPhil from the University of Cape Town and an MSc from St Antony’s College, Oxford respectively, and was a postgraduate research fellow at Yale University’s MacMillan Center where he worked on natural resource issues.