Peer Stein, a German national, is Adviser and Global Head of Climate Finance in IFC’s Financial Institutions Group. In this role, he is responsible for IFC’s climate finance investments and advisory work through financial markets, and is supporting the leadership team of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group in the delivery of its program and key priority areas. A particular focus is to leverage partnerships for key development priorities, including sustainable finance and universal financial access. Prior to assuming this role, he was the director in charge of global solutions for the World Bank Group’s Finance and Markets Global Practice covering financial sector reform and policy, financial infrastructure and access, and finance for development. Before that, Peer was responsible for IFC’s Access to Finance Advisory Business Line, a position he has held since 2009.

Peer has also been leading the World Bank Group’s engagement with the G-20 on financial inclusion and green finance and has been the chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Finance. He joined IFC in 1996, and has worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe on both the investment and advisory sides of IFC. Prior to joining IFC, Peer worked in Germany as a management consultant in enterprise restructuring and as a partner in a strategic market research firm covering Eastern Europe. He holds a masters degree in business administration and economics from Witten/Herdecke University, and has been teaching financial sector reform and development at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.