Sustainable development, energy, and climate policy.
Juan Daniel Acuña-Román is one of the many economists working on energy, climate, and sustainable development. He often tries to turn data into policy and the other way around if it makes sense - sometimes it even sees daylight. His work covers greenhouse-gas accounting, transition finance, green-jobs metrics, just-transition design, and place-based decarbonization.
He has worked with UN agencies and international partners across the Americas, advising governments, improving emissions accounting, shaping core policies, and laying groundwork for sustainable finance. He has also worked on workforce and green-jobs analysis, policy evaluation, energy modelling, climate-risk regulation, and evidence for subsidy reform, transition planning, and climate-finance systems.
Juan holds an MSc in Specialized Economic Analysis: Energy, Climate Change & Sustainability from the Barcelona School of Economics and a BSc in Economics from the Universidad de Costa Rica. Despite being very proficient in R, he still struggles to roll his R’s.