Shizuka Onishi

Senior Programme Officer, Blended Finance - International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Shizuka Onishi is Senior Programme Officer in the IUCN Business and Nature Team. She currently manages IUCN’s blended finance initiatives to mobilize private investments for nature and climate in collaboration with GCF and GEF. Prior to joining IUCN, she has worked for 17 years in development finance with a focus on climate, environment and natural resources management in 12 countries from Africa to Asia, as well as donor coordination and partnership through OECD at the Japan International Cooperation Agency. She also served the Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity, where she contributed to the mainstreaming of biodiversity across the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.