Director, Environment, Climate, Gender, and Social Inclusion Division IFAD
Juan Carlos Mendoza is IFAD’s Director for Environment, Climate, Gender, and Social Inclusion where he is responsible for overseeing the implementation of IFAD’s strategy to increase the resilience of rural communities to environmental degradation and climate change impacts and promote more inclusive development pathways that include women, youth and indigenous peoples as agents and beneficiaries of transformational change.
Before joining IFAD, Juan Carlos worked in international development in multiple international organizations and firms. This includes serving as Managing Director of the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention on Desertification, Senior Advisor to the initial management team that made operational the Green Climate Fund, and Senior Director responsible for coordinating KPMG’s work with multilateral development banks and international organization. Juan Carlos also spent a decade in the World Bank where, among other roles, he managed the Bank’s portfolio in the Pacific Islands and contributed to the resource mobilization processes for IDA, the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries, and led financial sector dialogue and lending in Latin America and Asia.
Mr. Mendoza holds a master’s in public policy and a master’s in engineering from, respectively, Georgetown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.