Alexander Lotsch is a senior climate finance specialist with the World Bank’s Agriculture and Food Global Practice, where he shapes strategic engagement on climate finance, climate analytics, and food system transformation. Previously, he led work on nature-based solutions, forests, and land use for the World Bank’s Climate Change Group and—while based in Hanoi, Viet Nam—he led the World Bank Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Global Practice’s engagement on innovative jurisdiction-wide programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. His earlier work for the World Bank focused on the economics of adaptation, climate risk management, agricultural weather insurance, and decision-making under climate uncertainty. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2004, he worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States) and the Environmental Systems Research Institute. He holds a PhD in earth system science and an MA in geography from Boston University, and undergraduate degrees in physical geography from Free University Berlin and in agricultural sciences from Humboldt University Berlin.