Luis Sáenz serves as Head of Finance Advocacy and Policy for the C40-GCoM Joint Programme. Based in London, he coordinates the finance advocacy strategy across the Climate Finance, City Diplomacy and CHAMP global teams.
Luis is an architect and geographer and, for the past 15 years, has worked in urban planning and policy, mainly in Latin America and particularly in Colombia. He holds an MSc in Urban Development Planning (’17) and an MSc in Public Administration (’23) from UCL, the former after receiving the Chevening scholarship.
Before C40, he served as Senior Researcher for the Council on Urban Initiatives (UCL/LSE Cities), and worked as a Senior Advisor for the Mayor of Bogotá on international urban policy and sustainable development. Earlier, he was the Director of the ‘Como Vamos’ Cities Network in Colombia and worked for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as a Housing and Urban Development Specialist in Bogotá, Central America, and Washington D.C.