Luke Myburgh is Manager, Adaptation Finance within C40’s Climate Finance team. He supports the Resilient Urban Futures programme, helping to build a pipeline of bankable adaptation projects for African cities, leading financial matchmaking between cities, financial institutions and other prospective financiers, and supporting the delivery of capacity-building initiatives such as adaptation finance academies and investor roundtables.
Before joining C40, Luke served at Pegasys Consulting and the Nature for Water Facility, a collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, where he worked as an Engagement Manager and, before that, as a consultant for over three and a half years. There, he led and supported the design, feasibility and governance of watershed investment programmes and blended-finance mechanisms across Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean, including funding pathways for a national Nature-based Solutions Fund in Ghana, water funds in Malawi, Ghana, South Africa and Uganda, and Payments for Ecosystem Services Schemes in Namibia and Rwanda. During this time, Luke also developed funding proposals for various cross-cutting programmes, including the Barbados Blue-Green Bank and Pakistan’s Recharge Pakistan programme. He has a strong track record in economic and financial analysis and multi-stakeholder engagement.
Luke holds an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Mandela Magdalene Cambridge Scholar, as well as a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics with Law from the University of Cape Town. Before moving into environmental economics and sustainable finance, he practised as an attorney in South Africa.