Eren Can Ileri is the Strategy Director at Ileri Insights in New York City.

Eren is a political strategist, policy advocate, coalition builder, and finance and extractive industry expert.

Eren’s policy portfolio includes US capital markets regulation and accounting, international banking standards, and EU banking and insurance regulation. It has previously included EU climate policy, finance and extractive industry practices, international human rights and labor law, corporate social responsibility and due diligence, and healthcare policy. Their clients have included NGOs, civil society networks, protest groups, and intergovernmental organisations.

Policy Analysis and Advocacy

Banking, capital markets, insurance, accounting, and extractive industry policy expertise. Advocacy experience targeting state and national governments, international standard setters, and corporates.

Ileri Insights can help you grasp track rapid policy development both affecting and within the finance and extractive industries. We are constantly following regulatory packages, including the SEC climate rule, the SEC oil and gas modernization rule, CSRD/CS3D, CRR/Solvency II, the IRA and Fit-for-55, and Basel III implementation, as well as decarbonisation pledges in finance.

Political Strategy

US, EU, and global political strategy based on narrative research, cognitive insights, power analyses, and geopolitical and industry knowledge.

Ileri Insights provides political strategy services for nongovernmental, international, and civil society organisations. We can help you model power relations and decision making processes, map targets and systems, test theories of change, set objectives, build critical pathways to victory, and design digital and media strategies.

Coalition and Movement Building

Deep ties to the European and American climate movements, anti-extractivist struggles in the global south, and policy experts and think tanks in US, EU, UK, Switzerland, and Canada,

Ileri Insights will help you build coalitions and engage social movements around your campaigns. We continuously map social movement actors and are constantly building our network of allies and validators. We have previously collaborated with movement actors such as Fridays for Future, Stop the Money Pipeline, Climate Defiance, Planet over Profit, the Global Coalition of People Facing Extractivism, and the Global Gas and Oil Network on finance, extractives, economic justice, and climate justice.

Facilitation and Training

10 years experience facilitating hard conversations and training the next generation of advocates and activists.

Ileri Insights can help you develop people and culture oriented trainings on power and oppression, privilege, neurodivergence inclusion, sexual and gender based violence. We also provide trainings for environmental defenders on security culture with a focus on digital security, trainings for policy advocates on motivational interviewing, trainings for activists on nonviolent direct action, and public speaking coaching.

To ensure our work represents a diversity of perspectives we hire subject experts, frontline defenders, and peer reviewers. These consultants are critical to providing an expanded Global South perspective, ensuring the rigor of our deliverables, and leveraging a diverse range of specialties including systems engineering, legal studies, UX design, and science communication. Guest consultants and our Managing Strategist are all paid the same hourly rate and guest consultants hours are not capped to ensure they bring their best work.

Eren’s expertise on climate affairs is built on years of multidisciplinary background spanning cognitive neuroscience, international governance, public management, corporate societal responsibility, and social performance.

Eren completed their Masters in International Governance/Public Management at Sciences Po Paris and his Bachelors in Neuroscience and Social Performance at Brown University.

Eren has previously worked for the Prime Minister of France, the Governor of Rhode Island, the Hospitals of Paris, Reclaim Finance, Climate Action Network-International, Global Gas and Oil Network, and the Sunrise Project. Eren has advised Citizens Climate Lobby, Stop the Money Pipeline, Climate Defiance, and the Helen Hudson Foundation for Homeless America on advocacy and strategy.

Based between New York, Paris, and Istanbul, Eren takes a local and global approach to being an agent of change in a world in climate chaos.