Carmen Niethammer

Carmen Niethammer is a Sr. Gender Specialist at the European Investment Bank, the EU’s Climate Bank. Based in Luxembourg, she leads EIB’s gender work inside the European Union – closing gender gaps while driving gains in productivity, competitiveness, and innovation. Much of Carmen’s work focuses on strengthening the gender and climate-lens investing nexus, including through women’s enhanced access to finance and infrastructure services. On behalf of EIB, she heads the Multilateral Development Bank Working Group on Gender. Carmen joined EIB from the IFC/World Bank Group which included long-term assignments in Brazil, Egypt, Sri Lanka and the USA. She is a Senior Fellow at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.