Team Lead, Financial System for Biodiversity and Transition Minerals, OECD
Geraldine Ang is Team Lead of the Financial System for Biodiversity and Transition Minerals unit in the Environment Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). She is also Team Lead of the OECD Clean Energy Finance and Investment Mobilisation (CEFIM) Programme. Ang leads the project developing a supervisory framework for financial risks stemming from biodiversity-related losses. As part of this project, the OECD has published the Policy Paper: Assessing biodiversity-related financial risks. Navigating the landscape of existing approaches (April 2023) and is about the publish A prudential framework for assessing nature-related financial risks: identifying and navigating biodiversity risks (forthcoming October 2023). She has contributed several reports to the G7, including Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action (2019); and Biodiversity, natural capital and the economy: A policy guide for finance, economic and environment ministers (2021). Ang has organised several events, such as the April 2023 OECD-INSPIRE workshop: Assessing biodiversity-related risks, impacts and dependencies in the financial sector. She previously conducted research on climate mitigation for the Earth Institute and worked for Lagardere Active and the French Senate. She holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s SIPA (2011), and a Master of Science in Management from HEC Paris (2006).