Caitlin Smith, World Resources Institute

Caitlin Smith is an Associate with the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center, where she serves as the long-term Climate Finance Advisor to the Ministry of Economy of Fiji. Since March 2019, she has worked with the Climate Change Division of the Ministry of Economy to design, implement and operationalise a strategy on how to increase both Fiji's access to and effective use of domestic and international sources of climate finance. She has been deeply involved in Finance Center projects on how international finance mechanisms, including the MDBs, G20 and IMF, can better integrate climate change into their agendas. Previously, Smith worked as a consultant on both smart water metering and environmental and energy policy, and as an intern on international climate finance for the US Department of the Treasury.