Berta Pesti

Specialized in climate change, Berta Pesti is a technical advisor on REDD+ finance at UNDP’s REDD+ team based in Geneva. Previously she worked in the area of low emission development strategies and nationally appropriate mitigation actions at UNDP, environment and local development at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in Geneva and the World Bank Institute and in the humanitarian field as a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross. She is a member of the IUCN Committee on Environmental Law and the energy law specialist group thereof. She holds an MSc in Finance and Financial Law from the University of London, an LLM in Environmental Law and Land Use Planning and a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Pollutions from the University of Strasbourg in France and a JD in Law from the University Eotvos Lorand of Budapest, Hungary. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Hungarian.

Berta will attend Parallel E1 Payment for Performance - Key lessons and challenges for REDD+