Climate and Energy Strategy, Investment Governance

Leni S. Berliner

**** ******* ****** #***, ***** Chase, MD 20815

202-***-****; ************@*****.***

Researcher, strategist and investor, seeking a role that advances innovation and public policy to help mitigate and adapt to climate change, via improvements in governance, project finance, strategic planning, land management and technology transfer. I have expertise in energy, mining, and finance, and have worked with a wide variety of multilateral, bilateral, investor and non-profit funders. . This cross-sector background supports practical and just solutions to help address climate change and promote sustainable economic growth. My regional specialty has always been Latin America and the Caribbean.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Renewable Energy and Climate Change

I am presently (2026), a sub-contractor to an engineering firm, GP Tech. My role at GP Tech is to evaluate investment proposals for the US Trade and Development Agency, Development Finance Corporation and others to support US companies seeking to mine or process critical minerals in Africa.

In 2022 I founded Creative Climate Management Institute — CCMI, a US 501 (c) 3 — too build and house a project development facility to decarbonize light industry and improve health status, by replacing diesel with low GHG emissions equipment and materials. The aim was to build and sell to impact investors, decarbonization projects in near-shore maritime, agro-industry, and construction. As usual my aim is greater than my wealth, and I had to closed CCMI in 2025.

From 2007-2018, I founded and operated Energy Farms International LLC (“EFI”), to create a portfolio of renewable energy generation. After scoping out prospects for utility-scale solar properties in the US and South America, the global financial crisis meant I had to “pivot” to provide advisory services to bilateral and multilateral organizations supporting green infrastructure, conservation and adaptation to climate change. Clients included the UNCTAD Biotrade Facilitation Program, the Global Environment Fund, and the Swiss Economic and Social Council. During this period (2015-2018) I also served on the Advisory Board of the District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility, and served as a Mentor and Judge for the Clean Tech Open (national, based in California). I was an early adopter of sustainability reporting using the GRI approach beginning in 2002.

Mining Industry Development

From 2000-2006, as Chair of Mining & Metals 21, Inc/M3 Investment Group, I mobilized colleagues from the UK, Canada, and Chile, to advise and support investors in commodity production. M3 designed and raised money for a Fund to produce minerals, metals and materials used for building and operating renewable energy technologies and infrastructure. We compiled a global pipeline of mining projects and identified US$40 million in soft-circled commitments for a target US$100 million Fund. The Fund did not close due to the death of our General Partner, Sir James, Lord Hanson. In 2002 I attended the IIED Conference on Sustainable Mining in Toronto, which promoted work on ESG by the Global Reporting Initiative.

From 1993-1999, I was COO for Latin America and co-founder of Apex Silver Mines LDC. For the Soros Quantum Industrial Fund, I recruited and led regional teams to:

•define global strategy and research on commodity markets

•option, evaluate and lease 1 million acres of mineral property in six countries.

•do initial financial modeling and due diligence to support property investment and management decisions.

•determine whether to reprocess tailings and otherwise invest in smelting on our property. The answers were “no” and “no”.

As a member of the Apex Silver Mines executive team, I established the San Cristobal Community Development Foundation to enable environmental protection, education and job creation in the mine community, and helped draft the Prospectus for the 1997 IPO (AMEX: SIL), which raised US$60 million.

Economic and Social Development

Advisor, Inter-American Investment Corporation (now IDB Invest), Financial Sector and Capital Markets Division, 1992–1994. At the IIC, I advised on the privatization of bank and non-bank financial institutions for inclusion in private investment pipelines; s. I trained a small team of investment officers; and devised the operating criteria and investment strategy for ProFund,, a US$22 million blended finance fund.

ProFund met both its impact and financial return targets.

Vice President, Council for International Development, Washington DC. For this NGO, I designedmanaged and ran SME lLending programs for agriculture in Central America. Also sServed on a binational team that initiated work to privatize the Egypt Ministry of Mines and Electricity in 1987. Served on the Board of the Debt for Development Coalition. This and other work for USAID entailed proposal coordination, program development and drafting.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Co-Author with Richard C. Larson, MIT Operations Research Center, “On Evaluating Evaluations” published in Policy Sciences, November 1981

Inter-American Dialogue Commentator on Mining and Energy, . 2000-2010

Global Climate Change aAnd US Law, 2nd Edition, Michael B. Gerrard and Jody Freeman, Editors. I edited Part V: The Next Legal Frontiers. American Bar Association 2014

EDUCATION

MPIA in Economic and Social Development, University of Pittsburgh, 1979

Intern with UN Environment Programme/Regional Seas Activity Center, Geneva, Switzerland, 1978. Public Service Fellowship from US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare (now HHS).

BA in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1976. Member of Commonwealth Honors Department. Graduated Magna cum Laude.

OTHER RELEVANT TRAINING OR MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Development Committee, Village of Friendship Heights Governing Council, 2026-

Member of Founding Cohort, ClimateBase Climate Technology Accelerator 2022

Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified Green Associate (2013) and Project Manager (2014)

Founding Member, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) 2006

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