Adonai Herrera-Martínez, Director, Environment and Sustainability Department, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He leads the team determining the Paris alignment and green finance attribution of projects, the post signing monitoring of green impacts, as well as the development of the Nature and biodiversity agenda for the EBRD. From 2017 to 2019, Adonai was the President’s lead Adviser. Prior to this and since 2009, he was based in Istanbul, coordinating the sustainable energy activities for the Bank in Türkiye.
Adonai previously worked at UNDP in New York and Dakar, and at CERN in Geneva. He received his MBA degree from INSEAD in 2009 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2004, having worked at CERN with Professor Carlo Rubbia (Physics Nobel Laureate in 1984) in the topic of Elimination of Nuclear Waste. You may find a bit more on his background and interests in LinkedIn and Twitter.