Chiara Trabucchi
Principal
Ms. Trabucchi’s areas of expertise are corporate finance and economics. As a Principal and Director with Industrial Economics, Incorporated, Ms. Trabucchi is a nationally recognized expert in financial assurance and the design of financial settlement frameworks tailored for the protection of the public trust.
Ms. Trabucchi has testified in numerous forums on issues related to financial settlements for large-scale environmental damages. She served as an invited expert on design considerations for financial risk management before the U.S. Federal Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), as well as an invited expert before the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. She has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, as well as before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs. She serves on several multi-stakeholder panels addressing the implications of financial assurance requirements on new and emerging technologies for climate change. She has authored articles in peer-reviewed journals on issues related to financial assurance, environmental disclosure requirements, environmental risk management, and the valuation of financial consequences arising from natural disasters and catastrophic events.
Ms. Trabucchi has served as IEc’s Chief Financial Officer, and as a member of the U.S. EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board, the U.S. DOE’s National Risk Assessment Partnership Stakeholder Group, and the University of California, Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Management, Eco-Entrepreneurship Advisory Council. Ms. Trabucchi is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts, Forensic and Valuation Services. Ms. Trabucchi serves as a Director on the Foundation Board of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.