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ADB appoints Warren Evans as special senior advisor for climate change

Staff Correspondent
20 Jun 2022 16:04:56 | Update: 20 Jun 2022 16:14:17
ADB appoints Warren Evans as special senior advisor for climate change
Warren Evans — Courtesy/ADB

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday announced the appointment of Warren Evans as special senior advisor (climate change), Office of the President.

Evans will function as a climate envoy and provide broad oversight and guidance for ADB’s climate operations, including optimising climate finance scale and impact, mobilising new and additional technical and financial resources, strengthening ADB’s external climate partnerships and engagement with international climate agreements and initiatives, and reinforcing capacity development for climate change operations, read an ADB press release.

“ADB is in a particularly unique position to support bold, decisive action driven by close partnerships with, and tailored to meet the near- and long-term needs of, our developing member countries (DMCs). It is critical that we act together and act now, with speed, innovation, and scale, to respond to the central development issue facing our region,” Evans said.

Evans has more than 40 years of sustainable development and climate change experience with various multilateral development banks, private organisations, and other international organisations.

A national of the United States, he holds a doctorate in cleaner production and climate change policy from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, a master’s in environmental health engineering from the University of Kansas in the United States, and a bachelor’s in ecology from Kansas State University.

ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region.

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