Green Climate Fund
Henry Gonzalez has extensive work experience in the field of sustainable finance and climate change mitigation. Henry currently holds the position of Deputy Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at the Green Climate Fund, where they oversee the fund's blended finance programming and portfolio implementation. Prior to this, they served as the Director of the Private Sector Facility at the same organization.
Henry has also held positions at the World Economic Forum as a Global Future Council Member on Climate and Nature Philanthropy and at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford as an Associate Fellow in Sustainable Finance.
Henry has significant experience with the World Bank Group, where they served as a Lead Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP, contributing to initiatives related to financial inclusion and impact investing. Henry also represented CGAP on the board of the Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) and co-authored a publication on impact investing.
Henry has worked at other notable organizations, including FMO - Dutch Development Bank, responsAbility Investments AG, Morgan Stanley, Gexsi - Global Exchange for Social Investments, and the United Nations Development Program. At these organizations, they held various roles focused on impact management, research and advisory in emerging markets, microfinance investing, social finance, and international development.
Overall, Henry Gonzalez's work experience demonstrates their expertise in sustainable finance, climate change, financial inclusion, and impact investing.
Henry Gonzalez's education history includes earning a BA in Political Science from Universidad de Costa Rica UCR in 1994. Henry then pursued a Master in Public Administration (MPA) at Harvard Kennedy School from 1998 to 2000. In 2004 and 2005, they obtained an MBA degree specializing in Finance and Social Entrepreneurship from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Currently, they are a Global Executive Ph.D. Candidate in Finance at ESCP Business School, with an expected completion in 2025. Additionally, Henry Gonzalez holds certifications in Series 66 and Series 7, though the institutions and dates of completion are unspecified.
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Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world's largest climate fund dedicated to helping developing countries take climate action. GCF helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. It seeks to promote a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development, taking into account the needs of nations that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. It was set up by the 194 countries who are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010, as part of the Convention’s financial mechanism. It aims to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and adaptation, while being guided by UNFCCC's principles and provisions. When the Paris Agreement was reached in 2015, GCF was given an important role in serving the agreement and supporting the goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius. Responding to the climate challenge requires collective action from all countries, including by both public and private sectors. Among these concerted efforts, advanced economies have agreed to jointly mobilize significant financial resources. Coming from a variety of sources, these resources address the pressing mitigation and adaptation needs of developing countries.