Enablers: Role of Enabling Environment in Scaling Up Climate Finance

Mafalda has led the Climate Investment Funds since 2014. During her tenure, she has overseen hundreds of clean energy and climate resilience investments in 72 countries worldwide. The largest solar park in the world and South America’s first geothermal power plant are among the numerous projects realized under her leadership. Mafalda is now expanding the remit of the organization into new areas, which includes accelerating out of the coal and industry decarbonization phase. Committed to putting fairness and equality at the heart of climate finance, she has launched the Climate Investment Funds’ Just Transition Initiative to help achieve that aim.  Mafalda previously held senior roles at the African Development Bank and the World Bank. A much sought-after speaker on climate finance, she has been quoted in Reuters, BBC World Service, The Economist, and the Financial Times, among many others.

Laura is the Managing Director of KPMG’s International Development Assistance Services and Global Lead Partner for the World Bank and the United Nations.  In this role, she coordinates global activities of KPMG member firms in support of the Sustainable Development Goals, international development and climate change mitigation and adaptation. She is an international senior executive with strategic and managerial leadership skills in international, non-profit, and government organizations, including at the Cabinet level. Before joining KPMG, she was the head of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, and worked for over 20 years at the World Bank where she held several technical and managerial positions, including chief of staff and director of the office of the president.

Dipak joined the South African Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) in June 2021 as Head: Climate Finance and Innovation. He leads the team in its work in the areas of climate finance mapping, financing a just transition and developing a strategy for financing the pathway to a net-zero emissions target for 2050.

Mr. Krishan Singh Barguzar, a graduate in Commerce, started his banking career in the year 1984 when he joined India’s largest Public Sector Bank, State Bank of India. He has done CAIIB from Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
In a career span of more than 38 years, Shri Barguzar has handled various assignments, largely in handling Loans and advances, International and Retail Banking. Besides, he has rich experience in operation and general administration, marketing etc. He was instrumental in devising Bank’s policies and processes for strengthening the loan portfolio since 2013 to 2017. During this period, he was instrumental in negotiating line of credit of 620 million dollars with World Bank. Thereafter he was actively involved in handling and resolution of the Bank’s Stressed Assets including high value cases under NCLT. He worked as Chief General Manager-2 (Sector) in Stressed Assets Resolution Group situated at the Bank’s Corporate Centre in Mumbai.
Presently, he is working as Chief General Manager, Credit Policy & Procedures Department situated at the Bank’s Corporate Centre in Mumbai. He is actively handling the formulation of Renewable Energy Policies and arranging line of credit from various mutli-lateral development agencies for onward handling of climate finance activities.
 

Dr. Joko Tri Haryanto is currently the Senior Analyst, of Fiscal Policy Agency for Climate Change Financing and Multilateral Policy, Ministry of Finance of Indonesia. With this role, he is responsible for formulating fiscal policies and financing to support the mitigation and adaptation of climate change. 
He is also a Associate Lecturer for several reputable university in Indonesia such are Faculty of Economics and Business University of Indonesia and other several reputable university in Indonesia. 
Before joining the Fiscal Policy Agency, he worked as Head of Sub Section in Directorate General Fiscal Balance, Sub-Directorate Evaluation of Decentralization Fund.  
Mr Haryanto held the PhD degree in Environmental Studies from University of Indonesia. He reached his Master of Economics Degree from University of Indonesia. He also spends his leisure time to be newspaper columnist.
 

Aida Sitdikova is Director Energy, Eurasia, Sustainable Infrastructure Group at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where she heads a team covering a diverse group of transition countries with a focus on power utilities. Her team’s projects had a specific focus on energy and resource efficiency, renewables and energy infrastructure all underpinned by the Bank’s mandate of supporting transition to lower carbon economies and promoting private sector. Prior to joining the Bank in 2001 Ms Sitdikova worked in private equity. She holds the MBA degree from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management and a CFA designation.

Frank van der Vleuten is coordinating policy officer for climate finance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Frank has represented the Netherlands in governance of the Climate Investment Funds since 2012 and currently acts as co-chair of the Global Climate Actions Program sub-committee.

Solomiia has joined the EBRD in 2016 and since has been working on implementation of intermediated sustainable energy and green economy financing facilities with partner banks, microfinance institutions and leasing companies and coordinating Green Economy Financing Facilities in 10+ EBRD countries of operations. 
Solomiia has substantially contributed to development and rollout of strategic tools to enable green financing, including the EBRD Green Technology Selector. She has led the EBRD efforts on greening of financial products, including on corporate climate governance and climate risk management planning and roll-out for financial institutions and step-by-step alignment with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.  
Prior to joining the EBRD, Solomiia for almost a decade has worked for Austrian and Swedish  engineering and finance consultancy groups on implementation of projects on energy efficiency and climate investments, as well as environmental policies in the private and public sectors on behalf of different institutions, including the EBRD, EIB, UNIDO, NEFCO. 
 

Chandra Govindarajalu leads the energy climate finance team which is responsible for mobilizing climate finance for the Energy and Extractives Practice at the World Bank working with global funds and bilateral funds including the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and others  He also leads the global energy storage program and the coal transition programs at the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). He has over 20 years of experience working at the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on renewable energy, energy storage, energy efficiency and energy access across 15 countries in South Asia, East Asia as well as Middle East and North Africa. Chandra holds a PhD in Energy and Environmental Policy from the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

As Director at the International Development Assistance Services (IDAS), KPMG’s global center of excellence for international organizations and development institutions, Juan Carlos supports international initiatives to achieve the sustainable development goals, including in areas such as climate finance, innovative financing, gender equality as well as  strategic and organizational realignment projects of major development agencies and international organizations.  Before KPMG he was Managing Director at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and was part of the senior management team that made operational the Green Climate Fund where he also contributed to the financial aspects of international climate change negotiations.  Having spent before that a decade at the World Bank, he has substantial experience in project design and the creation and operation of multilateral funding vehicles.