Marcia Toledo is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center and serves as Director for Adaptation and Resilience with the Climate High-Level Champions. She leads the Climate Champions Team’s work on the Race to Resilience campaign, which is a global collective effort to enhance the resilience of four billion vulnerable people by 2030. She also drives the Sharm el-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda.

Previously, Toledo led the Europe Policy and Public Funding Team for The Nature Conservancy, steering the organization’s charter change to prioritize adaptation. She also served as an advisor to Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, and to the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Peru, in addition to leading the climate and biodiversity portfolios of the U.S. aid program in Peru and Latin America.

With three decades of experience in strategic leadership, policy, finance mobilization, and public-private collaboration, she has dedicated her career to driving transformative, people-centered climate action for a resilient, nature-positive, and net-zero world. Originally from Peru, she is based in Germany.

Toledo holds a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance, a dual Master’s in Environmental Management and Forestry from Duke University, and a Bachelor of Science from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.