Laura Altinger has two decades of international work experience at the United Nations and World Bank, spanning the Asia-Pacific and pan-European regions. Currently, she acts as Team Leader for Nature, Climate and Energy in the Europe/CIS region, which has a half a billion portfolio of climate finance projects across 18 jurisdictions. Laura’s work focuses on programming and operations, strategy and management, policy advice, and partnerships. In her previous roles with the UN intergovernmental regional arm for Asia Pacific, Laura was the Climate Change and Finance Advisor to the UN Under Secretary-General.
In her previous role with the World Bank Vietnam, she managed a technical assistance programme, spanning a Low Carbon Development Assessment to identify options for transitioning out of fossil fuel across the energy generation and end-use sectors, the Partnership for Market Readiness on carbon market preparedness, prioritization of climate change adaptation interventions, and the Climate Public Expenditure Review. Prior to this, she worked for a decade with the UN intergovernmental regional arm for Europe/CIS servicing its multilateral environmental agreements. As a trained economist with a PhD from London Business School, an M.A. and B.A. (Hons) from the University of Cambridge, and an M.Sc. in Econometrics from Bristol, Laura’s interests lie primarily is applying economic instruments, regulatory or information-based approaches to inform policy and the shift towards low-carbon, climate resilience.