Adonai Herrera-Martínez is the Director of Environment and Sustainability at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He leads the team determining the Paris alignment and green finance attribution of projects, post signing monitoring of impacts, and the development of the biodiversity and blue economy agenda. From 2017 to 2019, Adonai was the President’s adviser. Prior to this and since 2009, he was based in Istanbul, coordinating the sustainability activities for the Bank in Türkiye.

Adonai previously worked at UNDP in New York and Dakar, and at CERN in Geneva. He received an MBA from INSEAD in 2009 and a PhD from the Cambridge University 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.