Charles Feinstein’s career focus has been on the nexus of energy, development, and the environment. He commands core expertise in energy and environmental economics, renewable energy, and climate change mitigation.  Through the 1990’s Mr. Feinstein was the World Bank’s Team Leader for Climate Change.

Mr. Feinstein retired in 2016 as Director of the World Bank’s Energy and Extractives Global Practice, a role in which he was responsible for the operations and day to day management of the World Bank’s combined energy, mining and oil and gas investment, analytical and advisory portfolio, valued at some $7 billion annually in loan and grant financing. In addition, he was responsible for business development and ministerial level relations in the East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean regions.

Mr. Feinstein consults for the OECD, the World Resources Institute, the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.   An alumnus of UCLA, the East-West Center in Honolulu and the Harvard Executive Development Program, Mr. Feinstein is trained in electrical engineering and resource economics.