Karsten Löffler - Head FS-UNEP Collaborating Centre

Karsten Löffler is Head of the Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. In this role, Mr. Löffler has overall responsibility for all international Frankfurt School consultancy projects in the area of climate and sustainable energy finance. Mr. Löffler combines the private sector finance perspective with a deep understanding of the global political agenda and the role of the public sector.

Next to his role in the FS-UNEP Centre, Mr. Löffler acts as Managing Director of the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany (GSFCG), Since June 2018, he also represents GSFCG in the EU Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. In his role, he has actively shaped the EU Taxonomy applying his extensive experience in renewable energy finance.

Mr. Löffler has the honour to chair the German Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance. In this role, he is tasked with leading the development of a Sustainable Finance strategy for Germany.

Before joining the Centre Mr. Löffler worked for Allianz Group for 28 years, including Dresdner Bank, Allianz Global Investors and Allianz Climate Solutions, where he was tasked to advance the Group in light of climate change across its business lines. His focus was on integrating climate change considerations into the Group’s DNA, in particular working with the investment and asset management arms to increase transparency and to include climate risks into investment decision making. In insurance he worked on increasing Allianz’ role in providing natural catastrophe cover in developing countries.

Mr. Löffler is a certified international investment analyst and member of the German Wissenschaftsplattform Nachhaltigkeit 2030. Representing Allianz he was inter alia chairing UNEP FI’s climate change advisory group, was on the management board of ClimateWise, member of the Geneva Association’s extreme events and climate risk working group, and advisor to the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. He chaired as well the advisory committee to the Allianz Renewable Energy Fund II.