Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz serves as Senior Director for Climate Finance to U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Prior to joining the State Department in 2021, Martinez-Diaz was the Global Director of the Sustainable Finance Center at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. At WRI, he led a team of researchers working to promote the flow of public and private finance to environmentally-sustainable activities, including climate adaptation and mitigation. Martinez-Diaz is author, with Alice C. Hill, of Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption. He also served on the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee convened by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He served as co-editor of the Subcommittee's final report, Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System.