Andreas Lunding

Andreas Lunding is the Fund Manager for the Asia-Pacific Climate Finance Fund (ACliFF), based within the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), where he is concurrently a Senior Climate Change Specialist (Climate Finance). Andreas leads the project development and deployment of financial resources for ACliFF, a $35 million trust fund focused on supporting the design and implementation of innovative financial risk management products to help unlock capital for climate investments and improve resilience to climate impacts across ADB's Developing Member Countries (DMCs), with a particular emphasis on climate-sensitive sectors, such as natural capital, oceans, and sustainable agriculture.

Andreas brings close to 20 years of experience working in global climate and environmental finance at leading private sector and multilateral development institutions, with in-depth expertise in originating, structuring and delivering innovative blended finance-driven investments and funding initiatives across a range of sub-sectors and geographies, including financing for oceans.

Most recently, Andreas was Technical Advisor to UNDP as a core member of the UN Global Team for the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR), where he led the development and implementation of GFCR’s knowledge, partnership and finance accelerator platform (REEF+). Previously, Andreas held senior staff and advisor positions focused on climate and nature finance investment and mobilization across developing economies with the Green Climate Fund (as Head of Climate Markets), and the High-Level Climate Champions for COP26 and COP27 (as Lead for Emerging Markets/Developing Countries).

Prior to this, Andreas served with ADB, where he helped establish the $450m Asia Climate Partners public-private climate investment fund with funding from ADB and co-financing partners to support scaling up of climate finance investment within the Bank's DMCs. In the early phase of his career, Andreas worked at leading UK-based adviser and asset manager Climate Change Capital on a range of clean energy and carbon markets investments globally, as well as with Deutsche Bank and the Bank of England in roles focused on political risk analysis.

Andreas holds a joint MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School, as well as MSc. (Management) and BSc. (International Relations) degrees from the London School of Economics. In addition, he has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Economics from Birkbeck College with distinction and is a Certified Climate & Renewable Energy Finance Expert from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management/UNEP.