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Washington, Dc, Us

Songdo International Business District, Incheon, South Korea

Lead a team of 6 in managing (i) readiness projects, (ii) regular pipelines and portfolios of projects, and (iii) country relations with 9 countries

Seoul Incheon Metropolitan Area

With $12b assets under management, the Green Climate Fund is the world's largest international fund dedicated to mitigating and adapting to climate change. As senior specialist: - With a pipeline worth over $1b, I manage 38 projects in the GCF's pipeline of project proposals on ecosystems, forests, land use, coastal and marine resources, agriculture and food security; - I also manage the GCF's funding windows for REDD+, including financing for readiness, implementation and results-based payments; - I support the mobilization of private finance for forests, land use and ecosystems, including through carbon finance, debt swaps and thematic bonds; - I help develop the strategic vision for GCF on forest and land use, carbon finance, REDD+ and innovative finance for nature-based solutions; - I draft speeches for the Executive Director, articles and publications including "Making blended finance work for nature-based solutions" (GCF working paper published March 2023);- I manage a team of both staff and consultants; - I advise developing countries and countries with economies in transition on accessing climate finance.

New York, United States

Executive Office of the UN Secretary-GeneralAs deputy of the Office of the UN Special Envoy on Financing for Development Mahmoud Mohieldin, I managed a team of 4 staff in coordinating the Special Envoy’s input to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on financing sustainable development in the era of COVID-19. • Organized 6 global discussion groups convened by the Prime Ministers of Canada and Jamaica on responding to the COVID-19 crisis, including on external finance, inclusive growth, recoveringbetter for sustainability, debt vulnerability & the private sector;• Coordinated the organization of high-level events including the Meeting of Ministers of Finance and the Heads of State Summit (40+ Heads of State and Government) during the UN General Assembly 2020;• Prepared speeches, talking points, reports, briefs and co-published articles with the Special Envoy on the economic response to the COVID-19 crisis.

New York, Ny

Manager, Global Forest Financing Facilitation Network (GFFFN), United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), New YorkThe GFFFN supports countries in developing project pipelines for the GCF, the GEF & other multilateral financial institutions, and helps design national forest financing strategies to harness financing for forests from public, private, domestic and international sources. As manager of the GFFFN:• Designed and managed 14 projects on REDD+, climate and forest finance;• Supported project pipeline development for the GCF and the GEF in 16 countries worth $350 million;• Organized 28 workshops and trained over 500 government representatives in accessing GEF and GCF funding windows;;• Led 28 team missions to developing countries to facilitate stakeholder consultations as part of project design;• Secured key partnerships with UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance, UN-REDD, FAO, UNCCD Secretariat, UNDP;• Collected and analyzed data on forest and climate finance, published multiple books, chapters, articles;• Provided organizational and substantive support for UNFF sessions, including drafting Secretary General’s reports, talking points and speeches, organizing panels and round tables.

Research on forest-related policies in Indonesia. Fieldwork in Jakarta, Bogor (West Java), Central Java's community forests (Wonogiri, Blora), Riau's pulp and paper industries and protected areas, and Papua's indigenist policies on the Upper Eilanden/Sirets (Kabupaten Asmat). Followed up with an internship at CIFOR Cameroon (Yaounde) on forest-related policies in Cameroon (February-May 2008) with fieldwork in Yaounde, Douala, Dimako (Eastern Province), Campo Ma'an National Park (Southern Province) and Wijma's logging concessions (Southern Province).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Public Policy: Forest Policies In Brazil, Cameroon And Indonesia

Activities and Societies: PhD in collaboration with CIRAD - French Research Institute for Tropical Agriculture - Internship at ACTO.

Msc, Conservation

Masters in Nature Conservation with a dissertation on Collaborative Forest Management in Uganda

Ba, Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Churchill College Boat Club Churchill College Swimming Club Cambridge University French, Hispanic and Slavonic.