Ms Cathrine Wenger is the Project Team lead for the project on innovative L&D finance solutions and sources commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministries. She is a qualified Norwegian barrister and founding partner of Wenger Law, which is a law firm specializing in international and European climate law and policy. She was Norway's lead negotiator for loss and damage and adaptation during the Paris Agreement on climate change, and has continued to work closely with Parties and non-party stakeholders. Cathrine’s areas of expertise include adaptation and L&D under the Paris Agreement, international carbon markets, nature credit markets, ESG and climate risk reporting for companies, climate-focused taxation and levies, and the wider ecosystem for finance of adaptation and L&D.
Manuel Bueno is the Senior Lead for Climate Finance at Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI). He is a climate finance senior executive and thought leader with 15 years of climate and impact investment experience in emerging markets, with a particular focus on climate adaptation and rural finance.
Ms Christina Voigt is an internationally acclaimed climate law professor at University of Oslo with experience with the UNFCCC negotiations as well as with advising and drafting scholarly articles on climate finance, REDD+, voluntary and non-voluntary carbon markets, including article 6 of the Paris Agreement. She is used extensively by international organisations and governments around the world and is co-chair of the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee (PAICC).
Mr Rawleston Moore is a renowned expert on climate finance. He has more than a decade of experience with climate funds, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Global Environment Facility (GEF), Adaptation Fund (AF), Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) as well as funding under the World Bank and MDBs. He is currently part of the Transitional Committee’s support group. Rawleston has both in-depth and broad knowledge of climate change finance, including L&D finance, and is currently working as an independent consultant on all matters related to climate finance.
Mr Sönke Kreft serves as the Deputy Head for the Risk and Adaptation Department of United Nations University – Institute of Environment and Human Security. Soenke has a background in public sector policy, climate policy and global change management, and extensive experience with influencing global policy regimes and global norm setting. Soenke leads the work of Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), focused on including insurance-related expertise into international policy-making processes, as well as continuing the implementation of innovative ideas on how to make climate risk insurance work for poor and vulnerable people at risk from climate change. Soenke has field experience in creating and strengthening risk sharing and management in more than 20 countries.