Catalina Cecchi

Bio

Founder of Cura Consulting, Masters in Economics of Sustainable Development and Environmental Sciences, Senior Energy Advisor for the Climate Champions Team and Senior Manager of International Strategies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, former member of the COP25 Presidency. Analytical philosopher and archetypal psychoanalyst trained in Florence. Her research centers on the role of non-Party stakeholders in systems transformation and the accountability of climate action.

• Senior Energy Advisor

  Climate Champions Team - Part-time From April 2024 to Present

  Providing thought leadership to shape and deliver the energy team’s strategy toward COPs, supporting coalitions and building regional partnerships for implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy climate solutions for a just transition in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, creating an enabling environmentrnthrough energy agencies (e.g. AFREC, OLADE, ERIA), financial institutions (e.g. AfDB, ISDB, IFC), and business networks (e.g. BCSE, EEI, WMB, WBCSD, ICA)

• Senior Manager for International Strategies

  Center for Climate and Energy Solutions - Full-time From August 2021 to Present

  International climate policy manager with a focus on taking forward energy-related UNFCCC global stocktake signals, development of carbon pricing instruments and interplay, Paris-Alignment Continuous Improvement work programs engaging with carbon project developers, MDBs and the Adaptation Fund. Article 6 and just transitions, accountability of public-private climate cooperative initiatives. Net-zero pathways and supply chain decarbonization.

• Economics of Sustainable Development, Energy and the Environment

  École Polytechnique From September 2010 to September 2012
• Environmental Sciences

  University of Virginia, Charlottesville From September 2009 to September 2010

Accounting Climate policy Competition/Economics Compliance Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) Energy policy Environmental policy Green Certificates Institutional/public affairs Market-based mechanisms

• English
• French
• Italian
• Spanish

Links