Gender-Responsive Climate Change Mitigation in Asia and Beyond:
Creating a Marketplace for Change Agents, Policy Makers and Funders

Meet Our Resource People


This meeting is a milestone event in many respects. One of the more notable is that we have convened some of the leading thinkers and doers on climate change and gender issues in the world. The below backgrounds provide a brief overview of the achievements of the resource people attending the meeting.


Resource People

(Alphabetically by organization)


Lauren Sorkin
100 Resilient Cities

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Rachel A. Aron
African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

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Anne T. Kuriakose, Ph.D.
Climate Investment Funds (CIF)

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Jiwoo Choi
Green Climate Fund (GCF)

Jiwoo Choi is the Head (Acting) of GCF’s Private Sector Facility —PSF. Jiwoo has 15 years of experience in corporate, project and structured finance. Prior to joining the Fund, Jiwoo served for ten years at Standard & Poor’s covering a whole suite of structured finance and project finance transactions, coupled with infrastructure and utility corporates in the Asia Pacific Region. She also worked as Head of Credit for Overseas Investment in Hanwha Life and served at the Financial Intelligence Unit in the Ministry of Finance and Economy in Korea. She holds a Master’s Degree from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Sookmyung Women’s University (South Korea).

Rajib Ghosal
Green Climate Fund (GCF)

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Dagmar Zwebe
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

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Bulganmurun Tsevegjav
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

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Liane Schalatek

Liane Schalatek
Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America

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Lorena Aguilar
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

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Bridget Burns
Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)

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Verona Collantes-Lebale
UN Women

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Fleur Newman
UNFCCC

Fleur Newman is currently the lead programme officer for the Gender and Climate Change agenda item under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Gender Focal Point for the UNFCCC secretariat. Fleur has a background in climate change, sustainable development, energy and international law in the private sector, and in advocating for gender equality and women and girl's empowerment.