Jorge Moshe Jiménez Montesinos

Jorge Moshe Jiménez Montesinos is a Ph.D. student in Regional Science at Cornell University, specializing in infrastructure and climate finance. His research develops innovative financial instruments to mobilize private capital for climate-resilient infrastructure, focusing on how contingent cash flows — such as avoided losses, reduced insurance premiums, and land value appreciation — can be quantified, securitized, and priced in municipal credit markets. His dissertation uses regional science, asset pricing, and modeling to bridge climate resilience and municipal finance. His research creates a market-based mechanism to translate resilience into measurable credit quality improvements, offering municipalities financing options to help cities and regions invest in adaptation.

Before Cornell, Jiménez Montesinos served as Director of Financing at BANOBRAS, Mexico’s Federal Infrastructure Development Bank, where he managed a multi-billion-dollar annual portfolio for 32 states with more than 2000 municipalities. He later joined the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy as a researcher, coauthoring a book chapter with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) on valuing public private partnerships (PPPs) and developing quantitative models for infrastructure.

Jiménez Montesinos holds graduate degrees from Harvard Kennedy School (MPA, Mason Fellow), MIT Sloan (SM in Management, Fulbright Scholar), IE Business School (MBA), as well as a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de las Américas–Puebla. He has advised state and local governments on infrastructure investments. Beyond academia, he is active as a mentor with Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs.