Zora Zubler

I have always been drawn to stories, and how narratives shape the world around us. They can lend a false sense of permanence to institutions that are inherently contingent. When I arrived at university, I expected to study international affairs, but a single lecture changed my direction entirely. My economic history professor mentioned a book called Doughnut Economics, and by that evening I had bought a copy. It reframed everything: the economy not as a neutral mechanism, but as something embedded in ecological and social realities that we have the power to redesign.

That conviction has guided my path ever since. I co-founded a local chapter of Rethinking Economics to explore the intellectual traditions mainstream curricula left out, and helped organise one of Europe’s largest heterodox economics summer schools in Valais. These experiences deepened my belief that finance is one of the most powerful levers for systemic change, a belief I was able to put into practice during my time at WWF Switzerland.

There, I had the opportunity to work on central bank policy recommendations, developing a firsthand understanding of how credit guidance and capital allocation can either accelerate or obstruct the transition to a more sustainable economy. I am now completing an MSc in Financial History at the London School of Economics, where I am researching how postwar credit policies shaped economic outcomes and what lessons they might hold for the climate transition today. At Broadpeak, I am excited to bring that perspective to the practical challenge of mobilising capital where it is needed most, contributing to a new narrative for what finance can look like.