Barbara Buchner

Barbara K. Buchner is an Austrian economist, with a doctorate in economics from the University of Graz. She specializes in climate finance, and is the global managing director and the executive director for the climate finance division of the Climate Policy Initiative.

Education Buchner grew up in Austria. run by the University of Graz and Graz University of Technology. She completed a PhD degree in economics at the University of Graz in 2003 with the dissertation Incentives in the Transition to Sustainable Structures: The Case of Climate Change Control.

Career From 2003 to 2006, Buchner worked on climate change and policy modelling as a Senior Researcher with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). in fall 2006.

In 2010 Buchner was appointed as the director of the Climate Policy Initiative's newly opened third office, based in Venice, Italy in the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). In 2011, she helped to establish the San Giorgio Group, In 2016 she became the executive director for the CPI's climate finance division.

Climate finance is considered central to the achievement of a low-carbon, climate resilient future. Through her work, Buchner has helped to establish a framework for tracking climate-relevant financial flows from a variety of sources, including both public and private flows. which was influential in preparations for the Paris Agreement. Buchner directs CPI's Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, In 2021, Buchner was appointed a Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London.

Publications Buchner has published articles in journals and in books. Her publications include:

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