Fenella Aouane

Fenella Aouane is the Managing Director of the Carbon Finance Department at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Her role is to create the strategy and vision for how carbon pricing can be used to help countries access finance and increase their climate ambition through carbon market mechanisms. She leads a team of global experts offering fund management and technical assistance to support governments in implementing the required policies to participate in Article 6-based carbon markets, and then transaction support to complete trades with corresponding adjustments as required.

Fenella has over 25 years’ experience in the financial and commodity markets with investment banks and trading houses. As part of the environmental team at Standard Bank, she focused on primary carbon trading under the Kyoto Protocol, which included multiple award-winning first-to-market transactions, such as securitization of carbon portfolios and the first public/private program of its type to support CDM project pipeline development in Africa. Prior to carbon markets, Fenella led teams focused on energy derivatives at Natixis Bank, Cargill, and ADM.

Originating from the UK, she has lived in South Africa and South Korea and currently spends her time between London, Luxembourg, and Seoul.