Michai Robertson is a Research Associate at ODI, having recently joined the institute having served as a Policy Officer within the Department of Environment of Antigua and Barbuda. In this post, he was responsible for international and domestic environmental law and policy matters that includes climate finance, and loss and damage.

Michai has also served as a Senior Advisor (Finance) for the Alliance of Small Island States ('AOSIS'), a Lead Negotiator on Climate Finance for AOSIS, SIDS Board Member of the Adaptation Fund, Advisor to the SIDS Board Seat of the Green Climate Fund as well as an Alternate Member for the Latin America and Caribbean region on the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Environmental Law and Policy from University College London, and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Oxford Brookes University.