Capital Deployment for Global Climate and Economic Resiliency

Matthew Aleshire is director on the Milken Institute’s Geo-Economics Initiative and helps to lead the work around the topics of climate change, the global financial architecture, and international political economy. Aleshire previously focused on global policy and government engagement for the Milken Institute, overseeing efforts to advance policy solutions across the Institute’s research and convenings.

Sara ElShafie, PhD, is an associate director of Strategic Philanthropy at the Milken Institute. Serving its Environmental and Social Innovation portfolio as a global climate specialist, ElShafie helps to build philanthropic initiatives for thriving environments and communities.

Emily Musil, PhD, is managing director at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy, where she leads the Environmental and Social Innovation portfolio.

Holly Freishtat is the senior director of Feeding Change at the Milken Institute and leads the food systems portfolio.

John Schellhase is a director of Strategic Philanthropy at the Milken Institute. He contributes to and manages projects related to strengthening corporate philanthropy, including overseeing the Institute’s Corporate Philanthropy Leadership Collective.

Dan Carol is a managing director on the Milken Institute Finance team. He leads Institute programming to accelerate effective deployment and financing of community-scale and climate resilient infrastructure, scale up regional innovation, and scale-up public-private partnerships.