Dieter Wang is a sustainable finance specialist in the World Bank's Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice (GP). He joined the Bank in 2018 and has since worked in different units, including Environment and Natural Resources; Fragility, Conflict and Violence; Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment; and Development Economics. During his time, he has led and contributed to modeling efforts on sustainable finance, sovereign ESG, credit ratings, natural capital, and other financial/stochastic modeling tasks. He applies econometrics and machine learning to diverse datasets, from Bloomberg financial data to geospatial satellite data, and likes to tell his stories with engaging visualizations. Dieter holds a PhD in financial econometrics from the Tinbergen Institute/VU Amsterdam, an MSc in economics from the Tinbergen Institute and a BSc from the University of Tübingen. Previously, he held visiting professorships at Columbia Business School and in the research department of the Central Bank of the Netherlands.