Eleni Kyrou

Eleni Kyrou is a sustainability and international development expert with 30 years of experience across the Global South. She currently serves as Head of Sustainability and Inclusion with the Green Climate Fund, bringing with her a passionate dedication for equity and social justice, in particular on the topics of women’s economic empowerment and  indigenous peoples’ tenure rights and livelihoods. She draws her expertise from applied practice across a range of professionals engagements to date in multilateral investment banking, academia, civil society, and international organizations. She holds degrees from University College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies in urban development planning and in development economics respectively.