Director, Environment and Sustainability, EBRD
Adonai Herrera-Martínez is the Director, Environment and Sustainability at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where he leads work on environmental and social policy, sustainability impact monitoring and the mainstreaming of nature and the blue economy. He is also a board member of the Ukrainian Association of Sustainable Development Experts (ASDE) and a visiting professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
From 2017 to 2019, Adonai served as Adviser to the President of the EBRD, following senior roles in the Bank’s climate change activities in Türkiye. Previously, he worked with the UNDP in New York and Dakar. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Cambridge. During his doctorate research, Adonai worked at CERN in Geneva on transmutation of nuclear waste in accelerator-driven systems, under the leadership of Professor Carlo Rubbia and George Charpak, Nobel Laureates in Physics in 1984 and 1992.
