Governance
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CoF is a non-profit foundation governed by its Board of Directors which defines its strategy within the mission defined by the statute, guaranteeing that the statute is consistently applied and respected. It delegates its power to a CEO who, with the team, executes the mandate from the Board. The Foundation is financed with the contribution of its private sector members, event sponsorships, and the profit of advisory services.
Board of Directors

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Honorary President, Former Minister of Environment of Peru and UNFCCC COP20 President

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal
Honorary President, Former Minister of Environment of Peru and UNFCCC COP20 President
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is the global leader of Climate & Energy at WWF. He has 35 years of experience in environmental law and policy and served as Minister of the Environment of Peru (2011 to 2016) and President of the Twentieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP20 in 2014. Pulgar-Vidal was the Executive Director of the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law, an influential institution in Latin America. He has a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he is a professor, and has completed studies for a master’s degree in Business Law at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. He is a board member of Forest Trends, Amazon Conservation Association and Peruvian Society of Environmental Law and a member of the Assembly of the World Wide Fund for Nature – Colombia. He is part of the Aspen Institute Management and Leadership Advisory Group, chairman of the evaluation council of the French sovereign Green Bonds, a Global Ambassador for the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience initiatives and a member of the IUCN Global Standard Steering Committee. He is an active member of different groups aiming to get strong outcomes as a part of the formal climate talks and the non-party stakeholders’ agenda. He has been recognized by the governments of France, Germany and Spain and by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his contribution to the Paris Agreement.

Claudio Pedretti
Founder and President

Jennifer Morgan
Board Member

Demetrio Innocenti
Co-founder and Board Member

Marco Di Girolamo
Co-founder and Board Member

Ryan Phillips-Page
Board Member
Advisory Board

Juan Chang
Global Head Operations of Permian Global

Joe Ingram
Former World Bank Executive | Chairman Greentech Labs

Ralph Chami
Former Co-founder Blue Green Future | Executive IMF

Assaf Barry Schiffman
Partner and Board Member of Mandala Capital

Assaf Barry Schiffman
Partner and Board Member of Mandala Capital

Stephan Kriesel
Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group

Paulius Kuncinas
Chief Economist Covalis Capital

Melania Edwards
Global Investment Team, 500 Global