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Carlos Sanchez
Director
Climate Resilience Investment
Climate and Resilience Hub
Willis Towers Watson


Carlos Sanchez is a Climate Resilience Investment Director at Willis Towers Watson. His work focuses on the integration of physical climate risks in asset valuation and investment decision-making processes. Carlos is also the Executive Director for the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI). A flagship COP26 initiative, CCRI is led by the private sector and has a growing membership of 90+ institutions committed to the development and testing of solutions for resilient investment decision-making.

Additionally, Carlos has been appointed member of the State of California’s State of California has launched the Climate-Related Risk Disclosure Advisory Group, and vice-Chair of CFA UK’s Climate and Investing Certification Panel.

Prior to joining Willis Towers Watson, Carlos managed a climate resilience finance facility at the Multilateral Investment Fund - part of the Inter-American Development Bank Group – also dedicated to identifying specific investment opportunities in connection to physical climate risks.

In the past Carlos worked at the Economic Office of the Spanish Embassy in Angola as Foreign Direct Investment Advisor and later as Business Development Manager for a project finance advisory firm.
Carlos holds a Master in Finance from the London Business School where he contributed to the drafting of the ESG chapter within LBS’ Private Equity textbook - and a Masters in Global Affairs from Georgetown University.