Rate My Professor Thom Wetzer

Thom Wetzer is Associate Professor of Law and Finance (with tenure) at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Linacre College. He serves as Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and Director of the Masters in Law and Finance. His research examines how legal and financial mechanisms address governance challenges arising from externalities, with particular emphasis on climate change and financial stability. Wetzer combines traditional legal scholarship with multidisciplinary analysis, publishing in journals such as Science, Nature, and Nature Climate Change. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Financial Stress Testing (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Wetzer holds a DPhil as a Clarendon Scholar and an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford, as well as a BA(Hons) and LLB from Utrecht University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, Yale University, and Berkeley Law School, and previously worked at the European Commission and Goldman Sachs. He has taught at institutions including Yale and Stanford. In 2023, Wetzer received the Smith School’s inaugural Teaching Excellence Award. He advises governments, central banks, and international organizations including the Bank of England, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and United Nations. Wetzer is a member of the United Nations Task Force on Net Zero Policy and the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Working Group on Sustainable Finance. At Oxford, he co-leads the Net Zero Regulation and Policy Hub, serves as Co-Investigator of the Oxford Net Zero Initiative, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

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