Elizabeth Lien

Elizabeth Lien

Senior Director, Federal Climate Policy and Subnational Programs
WWF

Elizabeth Lien, Senior Director for Federal Climate Policy and Subnational Programs at WWF, has nearly 20 years of development, climate finance and environmental policy experience.  Elizabeth leads on WWF’s Federal climate policy and manages the WWF team that oversees the America Is All In coalition, the largest coalition of subnational climate leaders ever assembled in the United States.  Prior to joining WWF, Elizabeth spent 17 years in the U.S. Government, twelve of which were at the Treasury Department working on international climate finance, development policy and macroeconomics in Latin America and the Caribbean.  Elizabeth’s last position at Treasury was as senior advisor on international climate finance in the Treasury Department’s Climate Hub where she led on international climate finance work, developed net-zero principles for financial institutions and was a core member of the just energy transition partnership negotiations team for South Africa and Indonesia, which resulted in the largest single climate finance commitment.  Elizabeth has a Master’s of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a Master’s in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Political Science and Journalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.