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Franziska Haupt
Climate Focus Berlin
Executive Director
Description
Franziska Haupt is managing partner at Climate Focus and the executive director at Climate Focus Berlin. She provides advisory service to foundations, governments, multilateral institutions and the private sector on sustainable forest and land use, and climate change related issues. Her work is focused on tracking global pledges for forest protection and restoration, finance for forests, deforestation-free commodity supply chains in the agriculture sector, sustainable mining and infrastructure, and on the design of incentives and institutional frameworks for sustainable land use. She oversees the Forest Declaration Assessment, a collaborative effort by two dozen research organizations and NGOs to measure progress towards global forest goals.
Prior to joining Climate Focus, Franziska worked as an international consultant for the Kyrgyz government in a World Bank project and as a consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). She has been actively involved in the field of climate change and forestry since 2006. Franziska is passionate about classical music.
Franziska holds degrees from the Technical University of Munich (BSc in forest science) and Humboldt University Berlin (MSc in agricultural economics). During her studies, she attended a one-year exchange program at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
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