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Andrew Steer      

President & CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund; Former President & CEO of the World Resources Institute

Dr. Andrew Steer is the President and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund. Steer joined the Bezos Earth Fund from the World Resources Institute, where he served as President & CEO for over eight years. Prior to this, he served as the World Bank’s Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2010 - 2012. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Director General at the UK Department of International Development. This followed 10 years in East Asia, where he was Head of the World Bank in Vietnam and Indonesia.

Dr. Steer is a Global Agenda Trustee for the World Economic Forum, a Commissioner of the Energy Transitions Commission, a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), co-chair of the Greening the Belt and Road Coalition, and board member of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet. He is also a member of the Advisory Committees of the Asian Development Bank and on the leadership council of Concordia.

Steer was educated at St Andrews University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University. He has a PhD in international economics and finance. He is married to Dr. Liesbet Steer and is the father of Charlotte and Benjamin.

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At U.N. Climate Summit, Few Commitments and U.S. Silence - The ...
Andrew Steer, head of the World Resources Institute and a former World Bank official, said most of the major economies fell “woefully short” of expectations.
Jamshyd N. Godrej and Dr. Andrew Steer | Time
Read the latest stories by Jamshyd N. Godrej and Dr. Andrew Steer on Time.
How smart economic policy can help combat climate change
Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Action Summit, World Resources Institute President and CEO Andrew Steer joins David Dollar to  ...

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