Director of Climate and Energy Finance

Lucia Fuselli is an energy and climate finance expert with over 15 years in international policy and finance connected with climate change and the energy transition. She is the founder and chairman of Climate Strategies Consulting, a firm that works with governments, IGOs, financiers and corporations providing strategic advice on governance, policy and investments connected with climate, clean energy, carbon neutrality, and ESG/sustainability. She has authored several publications on accelerating the energy transition and mainstreaming climate finance, for the World Economic Forum, the Green Grids Initiative and COP29, and is a regular expert/keynote speaker and moderator at high-level international events and media.

She led the Energy Sector of the Green Climate Fund where she was also Climate Impact Head for Transport, Decarbonization and Infrastructure, worked as Senior Advisor for COP28 and as a Senior Program Officer for the World Economic Forum's Energy, Materials and Infrastructure Platform, where she provided thought leadership on energy security and industrial decarbonization. Prior to that, she was an Investment Officer at AFD, a Sector Specialist at the European Investment Bank and a Policy Advisor for the EU Parliament. She also briefly served at Director level in big4 consultancies and on mega-projects (sustainability and infrastructure finance) and was a Leadership Fellow at the World Energy Council.

She is co-chair of Finance for the Green Grids Initiative (GGI), where she led the development of and consultation on Principles to harmonize the green finance attribution, obtaining endorsement from the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) as well as institutional investors groups (e.g. IIGCC) and the support of the international financing community, IRENA and the Climate Champions Group. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the World Association of Public Partnerships (WAPPP) where she chairs its Energy Section and co-chairs its Climate and Sustainability Section.

Areas of Expertise:

• Climate, Energy, and Resources Finance

• Energy Diplomacy and Governance

• Innovation and AI