Silvia Kreibiehl is Head of the Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, a think-and-do-tank committed to facilitating the necessary structural change of energy supply and use around the globe by helping to catalyze private sector capital flow towards investments in sustainable energy and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Ms. Kreibiehl has overall responsibility for all international consultancy projects in the area of climate and sustainable energy finance and is in charge of project acquisition and management, in particular quality management. She is also leading applied research efforts particularly with regard to the role of local investors in climate finance. She is also a co-author of the Fifth Assessment Report currently being prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).