Eva Bortolotti

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT EVA BORTOLOTTI

Eva is a dynamic professional passionate about finding innovative solutions for development, and driving capital to social and environmental impact for the achievement of the SDGs. She currently works at UNDP to enable finance to accelerate the successful implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Global Biodiversity framework, and our collective efforts to accelerate progress on the 2030 Agenda with the UNDP Nature Hub team, based first in Istanbul Regional Hub, then in Rome, and supporting global projects worldwide. Before joining the Environment team, she worked at the UNDP Geneva office where she supported the positioning of the UNDP SDG Finance offer, the implementation of SMEs finance projects across Africa and Latin America, and the engagement with the Swiss private sector ecosystem. Prior to joining UNDP, she worked as a technical consultant for different UN agencies and research centres, including the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the United Nations 75 Initiative (UN75), and the Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES), producing qualitative and quantitative research on sustainable development, social and environmental policy, and sustainable finance. Eva holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Geneva Graduate Institute, where she graduated with a research project fully funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.