About Natalie
Bio
Natalie Unterstell is on a mission to build a net-zero and deforestation-free world. She is the President of Talanoa think tank in Brazil and also serves as the chair of the Green Climate Fund's Accreditation Panel. She started her career working in the Amazon region, with the Instituto Socioambiental, in the 2000s. Since then, Unterstell has held significant positions, including serving as the Head of Sustainable Development for the Brazilian Presidency and as a climate negotiator at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In this capacity, she negotiated a signature agreement on environmental and social safeguards within the REDD+ framework. She was also the head of the Climate Change Center in Amazonas, the first public agency of its kind in Brazil. Unterstell holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the Fundaçao Getulio Vargas in Brazil. In 2021, she was listed as Apolitical's 100 most influential women in the climate space.