A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
Lin O'Grady
Head of EBRD Green Cities, Sustainable Infrastructure Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Lin O’Grady has more than 30 years of experience, working internationally in the transport and municipal infrastructure sectors, for both the public and private sectors.  She is an Associate Director and a Deputy Head in EBRD’s Sustainable Infrastructure Group (SIG).  Lin started her career as an ODI (Overseas Development Institute) fellow in Southern Africa and went after this to work for the Department for International Development (DFID).  She then worked in the private sector, in transport consultancy in both South and East Africa, followed by the European Commissions’ TACIS (Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States) programme.  Â
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Latterly, at EBRD, she has been involved increasingly in climate finance and, as such, is one of the architects of EBRD Green Cities, which is an ever-growing facility, mobilising EUR 5 billion, to date, to tackle environmental challenges through investments and policy reforms in Cities across the Bank’s countries of operation.Â
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Lin has a BA in Economics and an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering.Â
