A global blended finance initiative to develop mid-size climate resilient infrastructure & nature-based solutions.

Henry is the GCF’s Deputy Executive Director a. He has over 25 years of professional experience across sustainable and impact investing, emerging markets, and political and economic development. Prior to joining GCF he was an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He also served as member of Senior Management and Global Head of Research & Advisory at responsAbility Investments AG, where he led thought leadership, technical assistance, and ESG/impact integration strategies across the sectors of finance, climate and agriculture. He also spent time at Morgan Stanley, serving as a Vice President for Emerging Markets Debt investing and held other positions at the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Government of Costa Rica.

Mr. Lloyd C. Day is a United States citizen and assumed his position as Deputy Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) on July 1, 2012. Started career with the Governor of California eventually becoming the Assistant Secretary of International Trade and Investment for California. Moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as Administrator of USDA´s Agricultural Marketing Service, Head of Federal Government Affairs at Syngenta, and now Deputy Director General of IICA.

Paulo has over 25 years’ experience in the public and private sectors, serving in senior positions at institutions such as the World Bank and the West African Development Bank (BOAD). He has assisted heads of state and governments on key projects throughout the African continent. He is also a founding board member of the Green Climate Finance Fund, the world’s largest dedicated fund to help developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their ability to respond to climate change, which was set up by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He is also a member of the BioGuinea Foundation, formed to protect the biodiversity of Guinea Bissau and to serve as long-term financing mechanism for managing its parks and biodiversity.

Prior to joining SouthBridge, Frannie held senior leadership roles in prestigious international organizations. She was Chief of Staff to the President and Vice President at the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President at the AfDB.  She held various roles at The Trade and Development Bank (TDB) Group, including Vice Chair of the Board, Special Advisor to the President before becoming TDB’s first Chief Operating Officer.

She also led the Asset Management business of TDB, including the recent launch of a unique product for trade finance in Africa. Frannie has extensive governance experience holding advisory and governance roles on several boards, including the UN Foundation, Orca Explorations, AZA Finance, and ARC (African Risk Capacity) Ltd.

Michael Evan Mann is an American climatologist and geophysicist. He is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Earth and Environmental Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media. Mann has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years.

Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003.

Liesje Mommer mainly focuses on Ecology, Biomass, Agronomy, Biodiversity and Interspecific competition. Her study in the fields of Species richness and Plant ecology under the domain of Ecology overlaps with other disciplines such as Niche differentiation and Resource Acquisition Is Initialization.

Sergey Nuzhdin is a Full Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California and a founder of AltaSeads Conservancy. With 183 published peer review manuscripts, Nuzhdin was a member of the top-rated UC Davis Evolution and Ecology Program, before transitioning to the Molecular and Computational, adjunct in Marine and Environmental, Biology programs at USC in 2007. Nuzhdin has trained 30 postdocs and 31 graduate students, of which 20 are now tenured or tenure-track investigators. He has PI’ed 42 research grants, totaling over $32M. Of most relevance, he has been funded by ARPA-E grants to establish giant kelp seed bank and breeding program, and also to develop sporeless varieties of kelp. He has built kelp breeding grounds at AltaSea, and pioneered kelp two stage breeding to accelerate kelp domestication.

Michael H. Posner is the Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is the Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the School, the first-ever human rights center at a business school. Prior to joining NYU Stern, Posner served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2013 as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. In 2010 he chaired the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. From 1978 to 2009, he led Human Rights First, a New York-based human rights advocacy organization.

Posner is recognized as a leader and expert in advancing a rights-based approach to national security, challenging the practice of torture, combating discrimination, and refugee protection.

Susan Rockefeller is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, artist, and conservationist. Her latest endeavor, Musings is a digital magazine that curates ideas and innovations that pave the way for a more sustainable future. As the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Musings, Susan offers a portal to vetted products and brands that are pioneers in health, environmental, and social consciousness.

A longstanding philanthropist, Susan sits on the boards of Oceana, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, We are Family Foundation, Southampton Arts Center, and Land and Garden Preserve. She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and is additionally an advisor to Food Systems 6, MADE SAFE, Oceanic Global, and Ohana & Co.

Armando Sardi, M.D., is a respected and renowned Surgical Oncologist who has been honored as a “Top Doctor” in Baltimore magazine multiple times. He serves as Medical Director of The Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy and as Chief of Division of Surgical Oncology at Mercy Medical Center in Downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

Veronica has been Chairperson Public Sector Solutions at Swiss Re since 2018. She joined Swiss Re in 1999 with roles in asset management, strategy, risk management, products and origination. She worked in London, Zurich, NY before being appointed in 2015 President and CEO of Canada & English Caribbean based in Toronto. Prior to joining Swiss Re, she worked in investment banking in the UK, Switzerland and Italy.