Barbara Buchner

Global Managing Director / Climate Policy Initiative

Barbara Buchner is Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiative which publishes the hugely influential annual Global Landscape for Climate Finance and runs the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance which has helped mobilize over 2 billion US dollars for sustainable development in developing countries over the past seven years.

In 2014 the International Council for Science named Barbara one of the 20 most influential women in climate change and one of the 100 most influential people in climate policy. She is also the lead author on CPI’s Global Landscape of Climate Finance. Barbara built and directs the San Giorgio Group, which brings together key financial institutions actively engaged in green, low-emissions finance in collaboration with the World Bank Group, CLP (China Light & Power), and the OECD.

Previously Barbara worked as an analyst and researcher at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Graz and was a Visiting Scholar at MIT.

Originally from Austria, Barbara is based out of San Francisco (Austrian living in California engaged in climate policy – sounds familiar?)