Gerhard Mulder is Senior Advisor Green Finance at IUCN Netherlands where he advises companies and governments on financing of green infrastructure, climate mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable development. He initiated the Green Finance Academy with Nyenrode Business School and Wageningen University to build a bridge between the financial community and conservation organisations. Before IUCN NL Gerhard was working for several banks: he started the climate trading desk at ABN AMRO in 2005 and worked for 1,5 years for a Rabobank subsidiary on environmental commodities. Prior to that, he worked for the Netherlands government, as an energy markets consultant in Washington DC and as a broker of environmental credits in New York. He studied environmental policy and economics at Columbia University and Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam. He currently studies for an Executive MBA at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.