Annika Berlin

Bio

Annika Berlin is an international development professional with more than 15 years of experience working with bilateral and multilateral development and financing institutions across Africa, Latin America and Asia, with a focus on sustainable transport, climate action and development finance.

She works in the Sustainable Mobility Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. She established and leads UNEP’s Africa Support and Investment Platform, which helps countries, cities and companies accelerate the transition to electric mobility. She also leads UNEP’s Global Working Group on Electric Two- and Three-Wheelers and manages the Unit’s emerging portfolio on gender and electric mobility.

Before joining the United Nations, she worked with the World Bank’s Global Transport Practice and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), delivering climate and sustainable transport initiatives in China, Mongolia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Namibia. She also helped establish the City Climate Finance Gap Fund, managed by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. She holds a BA in International Business and an MSc in Environmental Management from the University of London.