Baysa Naran is a Senior Manager in Climate Policy Initiative’s London office, where she leads the Global Climate Finance Tracking Program overseeing its strategy and implementation. The program provides the most comprehensive data and insights into finance flows and funding needs supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation outcomes at global, regional, national and sectoral levels. Baysa developed many research workstreams and sectoral and thematic analyses at CPI, including the first assessment of global methane abatement finance, climate finance in small scale agriculture, and tracking energy efficiency finance among others.

Baysa is a contributing author to the IPCC 6th AR and UNFCCC Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance reports. She also coordinates the Climate-aligned Finance Tracking Group, a network of experts that aims to achieve greater impact and scale in climate finance by improving and aligning tracking efforts.

Prior to CPI, Baysa worked as a fiscal policy consultant at PwC, where she managed international and EU projects and advised clients on fiscal and tax policy issues in developing and developed countries. She also has an extensive experience of working with multinational companies on corporate compliance, restructuring and advisory services in energy, mining, infrastructure and financial services industries. Baysa became a qualified accountant in 2015 while at PwC.

Baysa holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge, with a focus on energy and environment and B.A. in Business Administration majoring in Accounting and Finance from Marmara University.