Benedict Braun

Power, markets & power markets | Aurora | ex-McKinsey

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Experience

  • Senior Analyst at Aurora Energy Research
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Knowledge Analyst at McKinsey & Company
    Jul 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Carbon markets, energy modeling, green finance, mobility, circularity, supply chain decarbonization Informed a multi-million investment strategy providing policy analyses and market trends of several national compliance carbon markets Generated insights for a published report on energy transition pathways using a proprietary energy systems model Informed a multi-million investment decision estimating avoided emissions of an investment option for a private equity firm Forecast prices and traded quantities of carbon credits in a large national market in an Excel model Produced insights on carbon credit markets building a data pipeline in Python that combines data from multiple sources on carbon credit project developers and feeds into a Power BI dashboard Contributed to green investment fund’s portfolio optimization by delivering insights leveraging marginal abatement cost curves and carbon yield curves Contributed to electrification strategy of major bus operator synthesizing best practices in e-bus charging and operation Helped manufacturing player raise >100MEUR of investment modeling the business case of a new circularity platform Contributed to multiple automotive players’ decarbonization strategies identifying cost-efficient levers for emission reductions along the value chain Estimated the value of municipal waste for waste treatment business modelling country-specific revenue streams

  • Analyst at Vivid Economics
    Mar 2022 - Jun 2022 · 4 mos

    Contributed to a global voluntary carbon markets model leveraging Python and Excel Built databases on corporate decarbonization targets and carbon credit project developers in Python

  • Intern at Vivid Economics
    Oct 2021 - Dec 2021 · 3 mos

    Forecast traffic volumes for transaction advisory projects in R and Excel

  • Intern at ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
    Jul 2021 - Sep 2021 · 3 mos

    Performed data analysis on corruption and collusion in public procurement in Stata