Daniel Rossetto

Dr Daniel Rossetto is an expert on global environmental and energy commodity markets, international business and climate change geopolitics. His professional background is in green finance, clean energy development, low-carbon transition economics and environmental, energy and metals commodity markets, with over 25 years of experience gained working across six continents. He speaks fluently in five languages and completed his PhD at The University of Adelaide. Dr Rossetto consults to major corporations and investment managers on developments in carbon, energy and metals markets and on the economics of low-carbon technologies. As a research scholar, Dr Rossetto had published a number of papers on both voluntary and mandatory sustainability disclosure by firms and its impact on financial performance and innovation As a practitioner, he has authored several papers on green finance and climate-themed bonds published on Bloomberg platforms and journal articles on border carbon mechanisms, carbon pricing and corporate sustainability strategy.

Dr Rossetto has served as a company director in the United Kingdom for over a decade with Climate Mundial Limited. He had previously held the position of Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Chase; joining as the firm commenced build out of its global environmental markets, carbon finance and carbon trading business, covering major compliance-driven emissions trading markets such as the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), the New Zealand ETS and California ETS. During his time at J.P. Morgan, Dr Rossetto was responsible for sales, origination and risk management and delivered some of the most important structured emissions transactions - linked to energy, metals and agricultural commodities - across the major market countries and regions. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Dr Rossetto played an integral role in the developing the Enel Group's carbon strategy while employed at the firm's head offices in Rome. The strategy was designed primarily to ensure the firm's compliance with the EU ETS as well as the potential for international business units to generate compliance grade carbon credits. During the period 2000-05, Dr Rossetto was a policy maker in Australia and was a member of the National Emissions Trading Taskforce (NETT) tasked with designing a national market-based program for reducing emissions across the electricity generation, industry and transportation sectors. He was also a member of the COAG senior officials working group that developed the first version of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) framework, on which the Safeguard Mechanism, today, is constructed.