Thought Leader Consultant of the Year
As the climate crisis continues, unlocking finance to help countries, and developing economies in particular, is an urgent priority. A thought leader in this field, and a pioneer of several industry-leading initiatives, is Cathy Chen, Associate Director at KPMG.
Cathy is leading the development of KPMG’s climate finance proposition and co-chairs the firm’s global climate & gender finance working group. She conceived the idea for, and led the development of, an innovative gender-lens climate finance training programme for asset managers and asset owners to stimulate wider consideration of gender-related issues and how they intersect with climate finance, which was launched at COP29. At COP29, she led KPMG’s climate finance programme, convening experts on transition finance and pull finance to scale climate innovations in emerging markets.
She specialises in mobilising public and private capital for the energy transition, including the UK government’s £7 million energy programme in India. Working with a wide array of international financial institutions including the World Bank and convening industry roundtables with the Green Finance Institute, Cathy has advised clients on developing innovative blended finance mechanisms for hard-to-decarbonise sectors including planes, trucks, and buses. This has helped position KPMG (and Cathy) right at the centre of this topic with key clients, unlocking significant opportunities.
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