JIERU HE
I work at the intersection of energy, climate, finance, and the built environment. I bring over 6 years of professional experience and advanced educational degrees. My interdisciplinary journey has shaped how I connect ideas across fields and make better decisions.
Work Experience
Commodity Credit Senior Analyst
Citibank
- Serve on the Houston Energy Trading Floor, performing credit risk assessments and providing underwriting recommendations for Commodities portfolios.
- Conduct comprehensive due diligence on clients and transactions, including financial and credit risk analysis, and climate risks.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (traders, originators, risk officers, and bankers) and engage directly with clients.
Climate Risk Model Analyst
Citibank
- Developed first internal climate risk stress testing models, analyzing climate risks - financial impacts - credit risk impacts transmission chanel under macroeconomic and climate scenarios.
- Contributed to climate risk stress testing exercises required by regulators of major U.S banks across climate-vulnerable industries, including Oil & Gas, Power, and Metal & Mining.
- Led AI/ML enhanced data analytics of model performance, built data visualization pipelines, and wrote model documentation.
Landscape Architect (Sustainability)
SWA Group
- Planned and designed landscape and urban planning development projects in domestic and international regions for sustainable and resilience development.
- Conducted climate risk and environmental assessments (geography, geology, hydrology, and ecology) by geospatial analysis tools, mappings, and site visits.
- Designed local Texas water infrastructures and community development projects including assessing flooding risks and integrating nature-based climate mitigation amenities.
Research Assistant (Biodiversity)
University of Pennsylvania
- Supported an environmental conservation grant proposal for a UNESCO World Heritage Site for biodiversity preservation.
Resilience Designer/Planner
One Architecture & Urbanism
- Contributed to NYC regional planning projects, including transit and green infrastructure corridor improvements, to support public-sector decisions on infrastructure investment, affordable housing, and energy demands.
Landscape Architect
Various Design & Planning Firms
- Assisted in the preparation of conceptual design, technical drawings, and 3D visualizations for urban and landscape projects.
Education
M.S. in Analytics
M.S. Landscape Architecture
B.S. Environmental Engineering
Credentials & Skills
- Interdisciplinary: Sustainable Investing/ESG Certificate, CFA Institute; Climate & Sustainability Consulting, BCG.
- Finance: Passed CFA Level I; Financial Markets by Yale.
- Licensed Landscape Architect.
- Technical Skills: Data and Statistical Analysis, ML & AI Applications, Python, SQL, Tableau, GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office.
Publications & Activities
- Invited Panel Judge: Served as a judge for a private equity and venture capital student Impact Investing Competition organized by Turner MIINT at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Invited Academic Talk: Delivered a guest talk at the City University of New York (CUNY) on the topic of climate risk, modeling, and its financial implications.
- Publication: Published In-Between Waters / Intercepting Wetness: Inventing Rain in the Mining Landscape of Shanxi Province as the independent author in Landscape Architecture Frontier (LAF).
