Raphaële Chappe is Director of Economic Research and a Co-Founding Partner at PDI. Raphaële brings over 20 years of experience in law, economics, and finance with positions spanning academia, research, and industry. In addition to impact investing and sustainable finance, her research interests include monetary policy, shadow-banking, and the link between financial markets and wealth inequality.

She has worked in fintech on innovations in decentralized finance and earlier in her career, specialized in tax structures for investment banks and private equity deals at Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, and KPMG.

Raphaële is a former Open Society Foundations Research Fellow, and has taught courses in finance and macroeconomics at various institutions, including NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Parsons School of Design, and Drew University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The New School for Social Research, and an LL.M from New York University School of Law.