Ms. Anna Lerner
Strategic senior leader with expansive partnership, technology and climate experience**
Currently the CEO of Climate Collective, an innovation network made up by climate tech entrepreneurs, investors, non-profit organizations and scientists––leveraging data and digital technologies to unlock climate and nature action at scale.
I spent 4 years leading Meta’s (fm Facebook) strategy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; Meta’s investment in Gender Data; and its Global Strategic Partners program, supporting high-impact nonprofits to leverage tech and data for real-world impact.
Before Meta, I spent 7 years driving frontier tech adoption, climate finance, data and development innovation at the World Bank Group, including the Climate Mitigation portfolio of the Global Environmental Facility, the financing facility of UNFCCC, and decarbonization investments across the globe.
I lived several years in Mozambique, working for GIZ as a regional advisor on sustainable biomass policies and energy efficient cookstove programs across key markets in Sub-Saharan Africa.