Willemijn Verdegaal is Co-head Climate & ESG Solutions at Ortec Finance, which she joined in 2018. Together with Lisa Eichler, she drives the integration of climate and ESG across Ortec Finance’s investment decision tooling and forward-looking scenario based strategic modeling tools (ALM/SAA analysis). Before Ortec-Finance, she was a member of the RI-team at MN where she led the work related to climate change policy, integrating climate change risks and opportunities into investment strategies and climate change related corporate and regulatory engagement. Verdegaal also has strong experience in the public sector through ten years of experience having worked at the Dutch Treasury and the Dutch Foreign Office in various capacities related to international finance and sustainability. She was lead negotiator on climate finance for the Dutch UNFCCC negotiation team. She studied economics at the University of Utrecht and the London School of Economics.