Global: Climate Bonds CONNECT 2026

Kris Atkinson

Fidelity International

Kris Atkinson joined Fidelity in 2000 as a credit analyst and since 2013 has been a portfolio manager with responsibilities across Fidelity's investment grade credit funds, including the sustainable bond fund range. He is co-lead portfolio manager on the Climate Transition Bond Fund and the Blue Transition Bond Fund amongst others. 

Kris was a driving force in launching Fidelity's Climate Transition and Blue Transition Bond strategies. This was the first blue thematic bond fund in the market. He is passionate about climate change and developing the nascent blue bond market to address funding issues faced by the blue economy.
Kris has an MA Economics from the University of Cambridge and is a CFA charter holder.
 

Charles Barlin

Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM)

Charles Barlin is Head of Investor Relations at AOFM.  Charles has worked in debt management and financial markets for 18 years. His former role was Head of Treasury and Insurance at rail transport operator Pacific National, where he started as the Assistant Treasurer in 2017. 

Charles has a deep working knowledge of debt capital and fixed income markets, and since 2021 he has refinanced $4 billion in international bond and corporate loan markets, as well as developing, and executing investor relations strategies. His experience extends to the provision of advice to management and the Board on financial strategy, capital structure, funding, and risk mitigation. 

Marine de Bazelaire

Regain Nature

Marine has over 25 years’ experience at the intersection of finance, sustainability, governance and natural capital, with a particular focus on biodiversity, nature-related risks and opportunities, and nature-based solutions. 

She is the founder of Regain Nature, an advisory firm supporting companies, financial institutions, investment funds and coalitions in integrating nature into strategy, governance, investment decisions and business resilience.

Prior to founding Regain Nature, Marine spent more than 20 years at HSBC, where she designed and led the group’s global natural capital strategy. Through Regain Nature, she advises international initiatives such as the Climate Bonds Initiative, corporates and nature-based solutions project developers in the Global South. Marine also serves in board and advisory roles with corporates, private equity funds and start-ups, bringing expertise on nature-related issues, impact, and carbon and nature markets. She contributes to knowledge transmission through teaching Sustainability, Nature and finance/economy at Sciences Po Paris and HEC.

Luisina Berberian

S&P Global Ratings

Luisina Berberian is a Director of the Sustainable Finance group of S&P Global Ratings, based in Madrid. In her role, Luisina leads a team of analysts to deliver Second Party Opinions to corporates and financial sector clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

Additionally, Luisina’s role involves market education, producing research and event presentation for different sectors and countries in the region. Luisina’s experience at S&P Global also includes seven years in Infrastructure Finance Ratings; the analytical group which covers utilities, project finance and transportation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

Martin Berg

Climate Asset Management

Martin has over 20 years' experience in climate and environmental investment, with a particular focus on natural capital and carbon finance. He is CEO of Climate Asset Management, a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination, a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm. 

Climate Asset Management offers scalable investment opportunities in natural capital, focusing on activities that preserve, protect, and enhance nature, reduce carbon emissions, and address climate change while delivering risk-adjusted returns to institutional and corporate investors. 

Climate Asset Management's Natural Capital Strategy allows institutional investors to target returns and impacts through real asset investments in developed markets and its Nature Based Carbon Fund helps corporates to directly invest in nature-based carbon projects in emerging markets. Martin leads the strategic vision, operations, and growth of the company, which has raised over $1bn million across two investment strategies from both institutional and corporate investors. 

Lily Burge

Climate Bonds Initiative

As Global Policy Lead at Climate Bonds Initiative, Lily specialises in just transition, greening development finance institutions and policies to tilt economies to meet 1.5°C. She has developed sustainable finance policy recommendations for multiple jurisdictions including in the UK, EU, Central Asia, and ASEAN.

She has authored multiple publications at Climate Bonds including ‘101 Sustainable Finance Policies for 1.5°C’ and ‘The Role of Development Finance Institutions in Accelerating the Mobilisation of Green Capital’.

Lily is a contributing author on the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. She holds a MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge and a Level 4 Climate and Investing Certificate from CFA UK.

Tom Dillon

Aviva Investors

Tom leads on sustainable investing for the fixed income asset class, including ESG research, integration and associated engagement.

Tom joined Aviva Investors in 2019 from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office where he advised ministers and senior officials on the links between economic developments and the UK’s foreign policy objectives.

Tom holds a BA in Economics and Social Studies from the University of Manchester and an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS University of London. 

Jacopo Gadani

Barclays

Jacopo Gadani, CFA, is a VP for Sustainable Strategy and Policy at Barclays. He has previously worked as a VP in the Sustainability Solutions Team at Santander and at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) supporting sustainable investments. 

Jacopo has experience in sustainable and transition finance topics and products, from capital market instruments to bespoke solutions. He is a CFA charterholder and volunteer for the CFA Institute and CFA UK Society in various initiatives. These include the drafting and completion of climate certifications (CFA UK Climate and Investing) and on public consultations (such as on the UK Green Taxonomy and IFRS on climate disclosure examples). Jacopo graduated from Sabanci University with a Master in Finance.

Lizzy Girling

Standard Chartered

Lizzy leads Standard Chartered’s Sustainable Finance Products and Frameworks, and Social Sustainability team. In this role she is responsible for delivery of the Bank’s sustainable finance frameworks, setting the standards for Green, including Adaptation, and Sustainable Finance as well as Transition Finance within the organisation. 

She is also accountable for maximising social impact in the Bank’s financing activities, with a particular focus on resilience and job creation, and ideation, development, launch, management and strategic direction of the suite of over 40 sustainable finance products across both the Corporate and Investment Bank and Wealth and Retail Bank. 

Shilpa Gulrajani

DBS Bank

Shilpa has more than 22 years of experience in Corporate and Investment Banking, with more than a decade of involvement in ESG Strategy, Sustainable Financing & Advisory. Shilpa has extensive experience in advising clients on ESG which includes corporate profiling for investors, labelled financing across both debt capital markets and lending. She has also led the role of ESG strategy advisory to corporates preparing their IPO journey.

In her current role at DBS, Shilpa represents Sustainable Finance, the business side of Sustainability to the Board. Shilpa is the SG Asia Taxonomy Co-Lead under the Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA) and has been a member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) Advisory Group – a global initiative which brings together leaders from Government and private sector on carbon pricing policies.

Shilpa is one of the main DBS representatives of ICMA's Climate Transition Finance and Impact Reporting for Social Bonds working groups, where DBS actively participates as a member and observer of the Principles.
Prior to joining DBS, Shilpa led Corporate Development & Sustainability for Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas, providing comprehensive ESG advisory and banking solutions. She has a proven track record of deepening client relationships and building strong franchises.

Shilpa has worked in India as well as Hong Kong within both corporate and Investment Banking space prior to moving to Singapore in 2015. Shilpa first started her banking career in 2002 with Citigroup in India.

Aida Hemery

BNP Paribas Asset Management

Aida is a Sustainability Analyst at BNP Paribas Asset Management, based in London, where she focuses on the green, social, and sustainability bond market as well as broader ESG integration within fixed income portfolios. Prior to that, she contributed to listed equity impact strategies. She began her career in strategy consulting and venture capital. She holds a Master in Management from ESSEC Business School.

Dr Niki Hutson

Bureau Veritas

Dr Niki Hutson is a Sustainable Finance and ESG leader at Bureau Veritas, with over 10 years’ experience leading strategy and advising boards, issuers and financial institutions on translating Net Zero commitments and evolving regulatory requirements- including CSRD and EU Taxonomy- into credible, investment-grade transition strategies.

Operating at the intersection of corporate strategy, capital markets and climate policy, she brings deep expertise across ESG capital markets, sustainable debt and assurance. Niki is a regular speaker at global forums including COP and London Climate Action Week.

Kanae Iomori

GX Acceleration Agency

Kanae Iomori is a Director at GX Acceleration Agency (GXA), a government agency established to accelerate green transformation investments in Japan. 

She started her career in the 1990s at Mizuho Bank, where she worked on finance structuring, credit management, and credit analysis in both developed and emerging markets outside Japan, including the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.  Her background includes project finance and structured finance, with experience in developing customized financial solutions. 

Since July 2024, she has played a key role in GXA’s decision-making process in providing financial assistance to clients with GX projects, which led to the approval of four debt guarantee transactions in FY25. She holds a BA in Foreign Studies from Sophia University, and an MSc in Leadership and Strategy from London Business School.

Sean Kidney

Climate Bonds Initiative

Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilise global capital for climate action. He oversees green bond development programs on six continents; green taxonomy development by governments ranging from the European Commission to Thailand & Colombia; and policy development for capital mobilisation. Sean is also a Professor in Practice at SOAS University of London and an expert advisor to governments around the world. In 2024 Sean joined the GF60 International Expert Advisory Group for Shanghai Green Finance Hub Policy Research.

Jenty Kirsch-Wood

UNDRR

Jenty Kirsch-Wood joined UNDRR in 2022 as the Head of Global Risk Analysis and Reporting. Previously she served as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Kyrgyzstan and advised Viet Nam and Nepal on climate change and disaster resilience issues. She also served as the Disaster and Climate Change Policy Focal Point for UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. She has  over 20 years’ experience working with UN agencies and non-governmental organizations in Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya and Somalia. Jenty holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. 

Karolina Köhler

TotalEnergies SE

Karolina Köhler is a Petroleum Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She has held leadership roles in drilling rig operations, health, safety, and environmental (HSE) management, as well as carbon footprint reduction. Her international career includes assignments in Argentina, Venezuela, the United States, and France, with key positions at TotalEnergies and Nabors Drilling International. Karolina is currently the Methane Roadmap Leader for the Exploration & Production branch of TotalEnergies.

Caroline Le Meaux

Amundi

Caroline Le Meaux is the Global Head of ESG Research, Engagement and Voting at Amundi, the largest European asset manager and a pioneer in responsible investing. She joined Amundi in 2019, and was previously head of the long-term investment department at the pension division of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) which is the fiduciary manager of several French pension funds, in charge of the SRI strategy, ESG and climate policy.  

In her current role, Caroline oversees engagement, voting, and stewardship strategy, implementation and reporting at Amundi. Caroline also takes part in the design and implementation of some of Amundi’s ESG ambitions for 2025, such as the Say on Climate presented by Amundi to its AGM or the enlargement of the scope of engagement to an additional 1000 companies on climate issues. She is also a member of the Steering Committees of various market body initiatives, such as the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the French Sustainable Investment Forum (French SIF), which enable her to anticipate developments and participate in the improvement of market practices.  

Xianfu Lu

AIIB

Dr Xianfu Lu is a Senior Technical Advisor on adaptation and climate resilience with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. 

Xianfu provides technical support to the Climate Team in carrying out core climate-related investment due diligence for all new financing operations, and in leveraging opportunities for climate resilience  investments. Trained as an applied meteorologist, Xianfu has extensive experience working in climate risk analytics to inform climate-resilient public and private investments.

Over the past 30 years or so, she has been working in the field of climate science, risk assessment and management. Her work spans science, policy and practices, across the wide spectrum of institutional settings, from academia (Institute of Advanced Studies, UN University, Japan; The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, University of East Anglia, UK), UN agencies (UN Development Programme, USA; UN Climate Change Secretariat, Germany), multilateral development banks and funds (ADB, Philippines; AIIB, China; and the Climate Investment Funds, USA), and adaptation-focused consultancies (Acclimatise – now part of the Howden Group, UK).

Dan Marks

Royal United Services Institute

Dan is a Research Fellow in energy security at the Royal United Services Institute. His research focuses on national security dimensions of the energy transition in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Prior to joining the institute, Dan was the power editor at African Energy, a division of Cross-border Information. He reported on energy issues across the African continent as well as heading the African Energy Live Data research team, which maintained and developed a database of more than 7,000 power plants and projects.

Dan holds an MPhil in theory, methodology and epistemology in economics and social science from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as an MA in international relations in the Middle East from the University of Durham and a BSc in physics and economics, also from Durham.

Anita McBain

ex-Citi Research

Anita McBain is a senior analyst and currently sits on the King’s College London £300M endowment fund subcommittee, she is also a consulting partner at Linden Park and an independent analyst working at the intersection of climate, security and defence technology. Her research emphasises the need to adopt a forward-looking approach that delivers on security, resilience and defence.  

In her previous role as Managing Director at Citigroup she built and led a global sustainable investment research franchise over six years. She is recognised for a report published on 1-Feb-2022, ahead of the invasion of Ukraine, to revisit the negative consensus on defence and led her team to win numerous awards during her tenure at Citi across climate adaptation, energy transition, biodiversity loss and critical minerals.

Anita has worked with some of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors across AUM, asset class and strategy to build robust and resilient portfolios aligned to long term sustainable outcomes including climate, food, energy, water, biodiversity loss, health and defence. Prior to Citi,  Anita led the sustainable investment integration at M&G Investments. She trained as a high yield credit analyst and has held various buy-side and sell-side roles. 

Marcelo Mena

Global Methane Hub

Mena is the CEO of the Global Methane Hub, a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, and the former environment minister for Chile under the Michelle Bachelet government (2014–2018). As minister, he spearheaded multiple international environmental initiatives, including helping craft a landmark agreement to phase out coal power generation, South America’s first carbon taxes for power generation and new car sales, creating 45,000 square kilometers of national parks, and protecting 1.3 million square kilometers of ocean. Previously, he was a practice manager at the World Bank, where he led the team that created the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action.

Recognized among the world’s leading climate leaders, he has been included in Latin America’s 50 Climate Leaders (2024–2025), TIME Climate 100 (2024), and Business Insider (2023). Mena was part of the 2024 cohort of The Audacious Project (TED), recognizing bold, high-impact climate action. He has served as a jury member of the Goldman Environmental Prize since 2025, contributing to the evaluation of global environmental leadership.

Mena has received awards from UNEP, National Geographic, Oceans Unite, NASA, and the EPA, as well as fellowships from MIT and the Fulbright Commission.

A biochemical engineer, Mena holds MS and PhD degrees in environmental engineering from the University of Iowa, focusing his research on estimating the externalities of biofuels, power generation, transportation, and residential heating.

Megumi Muto

Mizuho

Dr Muto joined Mizuho Financial Group in April 2025 to spearhead the sustainability integration and business development of the Financial Group. Her professional career includes the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), Japan Bank for International 

Cooperation (JBIC) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). At JICA she was Vice President of Development Finance, Partnership, and Mobilization. In this role, she led JICA’s work on blended finance in partnership with other development finance institutions, multilateral development banks, and private financiers. She also represented Japan as Vice-Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s 

Working Party on Development Finance Statistics.

Barbara Oldani

Sustainable Sovereign Debt Hub, SSDH, NatureFinance

Barbara is the Sustainability-Linked Sovereign Debt Hub Lead on Stakeholders' Engagement at NatureFinance. 
Before joining NatureFinance, Barbara launched and served as Director of the Sovereign Decarbonization Program and the Labelled Bonds Campaign at the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance. Barbara is a former investment banker, having held London-based roles focused on fixed income structured products, high yield and emerging markets at Salomon Brothers, Citibank, and Unicredit, as well as having led bank-wide regulatory and strategic projects focused on governance and transformational change at Natwest Markets. Barbara holds a BSc and MSc in Economics and Social Sciences (DES) from Bocconi University in Milan, and a CFA ESG Investing Certificate.

Martina Otto

Climate and Clean Air Coalition, United Nations Environment Programme

Martina has over 25 years of experience in Environmental Policy and Programme Management, with a particular focus on energy, buildings, transport and sustainable cities, as well as partnership building. At the UN Environment Programme, she has served in different functions out of Paris and Nairobi, including in the Executive Office, heading UNEP’s work Transport, Bioenergy, Energy Policy, UNEP's work on on Cities and the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, and now heading the Secretariat of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.

Before joining UNEP, Martina worked on Trade and Environment and Economic Instruments in the Area of Environmental Protection with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the European Commission and the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development. She is a fully qualified lawyer specialised in environmental law.

Nick Robins

World Resources Institute

Nick Robins is Senior Director, Finance and Private Sector at the World Resources Institute, which he joined in October 2025.

He has over 25 years’ experience with sustainable finance, working in investment management, banking, financial policy, and research. Prior to joining WRI, he was Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics, where he founded the Just Transition Finance Lab and remains a Special Adviser.

From 2014 to 2018, he was Co-Director of the UN Environment’s Inquiry into a Sustainable Finance System. Prior to this, he was the Head of HSBC’s Climate Change Centre of Excellence and Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment funds at Henderson Global Investors. Nick has also worked at the European Commission and the Business Council for Sustainable Development. In addition, Nick is a Commissioner on Scotland’s Just Transition Commission as well as the co-founder of Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker.

He lives in London with his family and is the author of a history of the East India Company, The Corporation that Changed the World.

David Schaub-Jones

Climate Bonds Initiative

David Schaub‑Jones has worked for over twenty‑five years across public policy, innovative finance, green infrastructure and climate resilience. He brings a systems perspective to adaptation and resilience finance, drawing on years spent with project implementers to translate their needs into financial structures that investors can confidently use.

He is particularly adept at pulling together different sectors and has worked with public, private and multilateral institutions on practical solutions, especially in water and conservation finance.

As director of a boutique consultancy, he has recently supported the Resilient Water Accelerator on models for bringing repayable finance into watershed investments, helped UNICEF explore resilience and climate finance in Sri Lanka, Zambia and Nigeria, and supported South Africa’s National Treasury to mainstream innovative approaches to public financial management. He also developed a “Climate Action Masterclass” for C40 in Africa.

David has led global engagement on water resilience at The Nature Conservancy, represented the Water Finance Coalition at the Financing in Common summit, and served on the advisory board of Africa Utility Week. For several years he has been a guest lecturer at University College London.  Earlier in his career, he worked with the World Bank, Public Private Infrastructure Advisor Facility, Agence Française de Développement and the UK’s DFID on applying blended finance and PPP models to sustainable infrastructure.

Trained in engineering and economics, David works easily across disciplines and time zones and has built and led diverse teams in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has lived in South Africa, Vietnam, Colombia, the US, France and Belgium, and has family roots in the UK.

Sadaaki Shimizu

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Mr Shimizu joined the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2013. 

Since 2018, he has been engaged in budget formulation within the Bureau of Finance, with a primary focus on the industrial and financial sectors. From 2022 to 2024, he was seconded to the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and was based in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he supported the international expansion of Japanese startups.

Upon returning, he worked on budget planning for the infrastructure and industrial sectors between 2025 and 2026, before assuming his current role in April 2026.

He currently serves in the Bond Management Division of the Bureau of Finance, where he is responsible for foreign bond operations. As a representative of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as a resilience bond issuer, he presents the city’s resilience bond initiatives and their significance

Val Smith

Citi

Val Smith was appointed Citi’s first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2019 and has helped grow Citi’s sustainability efforts since 2004. She oversees Citi’s Sustainability & ESG team, with responsibility for the bank’s enterprise-level sustainability strategy and priority initiatives, including the $1 Trillion Sustainable Finance Goal and Net Zero climate commitment. 

Val is leading the development of Citi’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 approach as well as Net Zero Operations by 2030 and guides its sustainability engagement and disclosures. She is an advisor and spokesperson on sustainable finance, climate change, stakeholder engagement, environmental and social risk management, and energy transition trends.

Prior to joining Citi, Val worked for a decade in the environmental sector, including the National Audubon Society, Brainerd Foundation, and the Houston Advanced Research Center. She began her career with the United States Peace Corps, where she served for two years as an environmental specialist in Honduras.

She serves on the board of Net Impact and is a member of the Aspen Institute Business & Society Leaders Forum. Val earned her MBA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her BA in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia.

Roberto Waack

MBRF Global Foods

Roberto Waack is Chairman of the Board of Instituto Arapyau and serves as Board Member and Chair of the Sustainability Committee at MBRF (Marfrig Global Foods S.A.). He was previously CEO of Fundação Renova, the organization established to oversee the remediation and recovery efforts following the collapse of the Fundão dam in Mariana, Brazil.

He is the founder, shareholder, former CEO, and later Chairman of the Board of Amata S.A., a forestry company dedicated to the sustainable management and cultivation of both native and exotic species. Throughout his career, he has held senior executive positions in Brazilian and multinational companies in the pharmaceutical and forestry sectors.

As an entrepreneur, Roberto has been directly involved in private placements and in the creation of management and governance structures. He has also served on the boards and advisory councils of organizations such as Wisewood/Braskem (recycled plastics), Synergia Socio-Environmental Consulting, CHS Agroindustrial (grain trading), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC), Instituto Ethos, Funbio – the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund, ISE-Bovespa, and WWF. He is also a member of the Sustainability Committees of Tupy and Natura S.A.

Since the 1980s, Roberto has been actively engaged in environmental and social initiatives, consistently working at the intersection of the private sector and civil society organizations. He is co-founder of both the Brazil Climate, Forests and Agriculture Coalition and Concertação pela Amazônia.

Roberto holds a degree in Biology from the University of São Paulo (IB-USP) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from FEA-USP. He is also a columnist for Estadão Economia and an Associated Fellow at Chatham House, in London.

Dharshan Wignarajah

Climate Policy Initiative

Dharshan Wignarajah leads CPI’s UK team, covering activity across Europe including shaping policy and technical work in climate finance and leading external engagement and program development. 

Dharshan has more than 20 years of public sector, industry, and strategic advisory experience in climate and development finance, impact investing, clean technology, and renewable energy, with particular emphasis on fostering innovation that leverages scarce public resource to catalyse private finance at scale.

Kelvin Wong

DBS Bank

Kelvin Wong is Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Head of Energy, Renewables and Infrastructure at DBS Bank.

He has over 25 years of professional experience including 20 years of experience in corporate and project finance in Asia. His professional experience as an energy regulator, business consultant and corporate financier (including project finance / M&A and equity fund raisings) offers unique insights to the energy and infrastructure sectors in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to his role in DBS Bank, Kelvin held senior appointments at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Standard Chartered Bank, KPMG Corporate Finance Pte Ltd and the Energy Market Authority of Singapore. During his years of involvement in the energy and infrastructure sector, he has advised on M&A transactions as well as advised and arranged billions of dollars of financings (including sustainability linked financings and carbon credits) for the renewable energy, conventional power, oil & gas, and telecommunication sectors in Asia Pacific. 
Kelvin has spoken at numerous industry seminars and forums and had once served as the APLMA Singapore PF committee Chairman as well as the ISCA Project Finance Oversight committee member. Kelvin is also an Affiliate Faculty of the Singapore Management University as well as a peer reviewer of the International Energy Agency’s annual Southeast Asia Energy Outlook which is part of the World Energy Outlook series.

Ana Zornig Jayme

Curitiba

Ana Zornig Jayme is an architect and urban planner with a Master’s degree in Governance and Sustainability and executive education in public leadership, including programs at Harvard Kennedy School and the London School of Economics.

A career public servant with more than 30 years of experience in Curitiba’s municipal government, she has led initiatives in urban planning, sustainable mobility, climate resilience, and strategic investment planning. She currently leads the development of a pipeline of transformative urban projects designed to address Curitiba’s most pressing challenges while advancing the city’s long-term sustainability goals.

Ana serves as President of the Curitiba Institute for Research and Urban Planning (IPPUC), becoming the first woman to lead the institution in its 60-year history. She also serves as President of InREDE, the Brazilian Network of Planning Institutes, and is actively engaged in national and international networks advancing sustainable mobility, climate action, and urban innovation, including Women in Motion, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA), TUMI, and C40 Cities.