Centre for Sustainable Finance

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Centre for Sustainable Finance Professorial Research Associate
Qualifications
PhD (York University, Canada)
Email address
maroist@mcmaster.ca

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Thomas Marois is Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London.

He is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Public Banking for Sustainability, Inclusion, and Prosperity, Professor of Political Economy, and Director of the Public Banking Project at McMaster University, Canada. 

He is a leading scholar of public banks worldwide, focusing on public-public collaborations for the financing of green and just transitions. Thomas is author of the award-winning 2021 book Public Banks: Decarbonisation, Definancialisation, and Democratisation (Cambridge University Press). He sits on the Council of Europe Development Bank Award for Social Cohesion Jury and hosts the Finance in Common Summit Global Research Network ‘PDB Academic’ at the Public Banking Project. 

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  • Public banks
  • Public development banks
  • Just transitions
  • Public-public collaborations
  • Global PDB ecosystem
  • Climate finance

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