Head of FS-UNEP Collaborating Centre

Karsten Löffler is Head of the Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. In this role, Mr. Löffler has overall responsibility for all international Frankfurt School consultancy projects in the area of climate and sustainable energy finance. Mr. Löffler combines the private sector finance perspective with a deep understanding of the global political agenda and the role of the public sector.

Mr. Löffler also acts as Managing Director of the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany (GSFCG). He used to represent the GSFCG in the EU Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, where he actively shaped the EU Taxonomy applying his extensive experience in renewable energy finance. In October 2020 he became a member of the Commission’s newly established Platfrom on Sustainable Finance. Furthermore Mr. Löffler has the honour to chair the Sustainable Finance Committee of the Federal Government. One of the tasks is to develop recommendations for a Sustainable Finance strategy for Germany.

Before joining the Centre Mr. Löffler worked for Allianz Group for 28 years, including Dresdner Bank, Allianz Global Investors and Allianz Climate Solutions, where he was tasked to advance Allianz Group in light of climate change across its business lines. His focus was on integrating climate change considerations into the Group’s DNA, in particular working with the investment and asset management arms to include climate risks into investment decision making. In insurance he worked on increasing Allianz’ role in providing natural catastrophe cover in developing countries.

Mr. Löffler is a certified international investment analyst and member of the German Science Platform Sustainability 2030. Representing Allianz he was inter alia chairing UNEP FI’s climate change advisory group, was on the management board of ClimateWise, member of the Geneva Association’s extreme events and climate risk working group, and advisor to the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance.