Senior Director, Finance and Private Sector at World Resources Institute (WRI)

WRI is a global research organization working to improve people’s lives, protect nature and halt climate change. As an independent research organization, we leverage our data, expertise and global reach to influence policy and catalyze change across systems like food, land and water; energy; and cities; as well as finance, economics and governance. Our 2,000+ staff work on the ground in more than a dozen focus countries and with partners in over 50 nations. Founded in 1982, WRI brings more than 40 years of experience turning evidence into action.

WRI’s Climate, Economics and Finance (CEF) Program is responsible for driving the transformations in the economic, financial and governance systems. It has three pillars focused on driving up ambition; supporting countries to integrate climate, nature and people into their transition pathways; and shifting the international financial system, trade, and regulation and standards in support of this.

The Senior Director for Finance and Private Sector in the CEF Program will be responsible for shaping and delivering WRI’s work on increasing the quantity, quality and coherence of the financial system, across public, private, domestic and international, climate, nature and development finance. The Senior Director will also be responsible for overseeing work supporting transitions in corporate business strategies. They will provide thought leadership internationally and in WRI; strengthen WRI’s analysis, convenings, partnerships and programs to support finance and private sector transformation; and grow and build a professional cadre of finance and private sector professionals within CEF, across WRI focus countries and within WRI’s energy, cities, and food/land/water teams.

The Senior Director, Finance and Private Sector should bring a background in development and/or climate finance and an understanding of corporate transitions for people, nature and climate. They should have a strong technical grounding in these issues with experience applying this knowledge in the context of emerging and developing economies, including experience working with Finance Ministries, Multilateral Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions, private sector financial institutions, companies, and other relevant senior actors.