Helen Mountford is president and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, a philanthropy platform to innovate and accelerate climate solutions that scale. She was previously vice president of climate and economics at World Resources Institute, where she led teams to advance policies and economic approaches to successfully address climate change. Mountford was also program director for the New Climate Economy Project, an initiative of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate providing evidence on actions that can strengthen climate ambition and deliver social and economic benefits. Before that, she was deputy director of environment for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, where she worked for over 16 years advising governments on policy reforms. Earlier, Mountford managed recycling schemes in England and worked for an NGO in Australia.
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