COP30 Student Delegate
Gabriela Coser is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and a Pearson Fellow. She brings a decade of multidisciplinary experience advising public and private sector stakeholders on finance, trade, and sustainable development. Gabriela previously led climate finance efforts at the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), developing evidence-based strategies to mobilize resources for decarbonization, strengthen regulatory frameworks, and build local government capacity. Recently, she collaborated with Instiglio to design results-based finance mechanisms for climate and biodiversity outcomes in Latin America. Earlier, she advised on trade negotiations, financial instruments, and regulatory issues at the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock and the Brazilian Mission to the WTO. Currently, she is a Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) Fellow focused on equitable clean energy transitions, serves as Vice President of Strategy for the Harris Energy and Environmental Association, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidade Brasília (UnB).
Gabriela attended COP30 with the Institute in November 2025.
“COP30 was a unique opportunity to merge my past professional experiences with the academic knowledge and international perspective I developed at UChicago. It was deeply personal to return to the city where I led my last project before starting my MPP. As a Brazilian, I witnessed the continuation of past work I contributed to, with initiatives like the Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFF), the Country Platforms Hub, and the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap reflecting past recommendations. Discussions emphasized rechanneling private finance, scaling portfolios through better coordination, and reshaping systems for equitable capital flows, reinforcing my goal and excitement to continue to help governments and the private sector in designing innovative financial instruments for climate action and a just transition.”