Veronica Galmez

Veronica’s career has focused on international development cooperation and climate change in the forest and land use sector. After managing a regional programme on mountain forests and climate change in the Andes with the Swiss Development Cooperation and Helvetas, she joined the forest and land use team at the Green Climate Fund. Veronica is a Peruvian forestry engineer with 12 years of working experience and holds a master’s degree in tropical environmental science at the University of Turku, Finland. She also holds a postgraduate certificate in Sustainable Business from the University of Cambridge where she analysed the opportunities for blended finance and impact investing in conserving tropical forests.