Financial Innovations Labs

Growing the US Green Bond Market: Lab 2

As climate-related events, including wildfires, become more prevalent throughout California, investors and issuers alike are looking for new tools to protect the state from increasingly devastating environmental disasters. At the same time...
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Maressa Brennan

Formerly Milken Institute

New Models for Financing Translational Medical Research in Singapore

Adapting scientific lab discoveries into life-saving drugs for commercial consumption is no small feat. Often times medical research stalls when drugs get to the translational stage of the process. This refers to the period between the...
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Quintus Lim

Associate Director, Asia, Milken Institute International
Quintus Lim is an associate director of policy and programs for the International pillar at the Milken Institute. He focuses on policy areas such as R&D financing, technological adoption across domains such as health, food, agriculture, finance, and the broader economy, and issues of ecosystem building.

Financing the Control of Tuberculosis

As of 2015, roughly one third of the world’s population, mostly in poorer countries, carried tuberculosis bacteria in their system. Given the characteristics of airborne diseases like tuberculosis, coordination among national and...
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Caitlin MacLean

Managing Director, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Caitlin MacLean is a managing director on the innovative finance team at the Milken Institute. She oversees the research, development, execution, and follow-up of our Financial Innovations Labs, which promote financial solutions to overcome economic and social challenges.