Since March 2014, Dr. André Weidenhaupt is Director General of Luxembourg’s Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development. He is in charge of environmental issues related to the human environment (climate change, sustainable development, circular economy, clean air, water protection, waste management, noise, chemicals, and industrial pollution prevention) as well as all European and international environmental issues and the budget.

From September 2005 to March 2014, Dr. André Weidenhaupt has been Director of Luxembourg’s Water Management Agency (Administration de la gestion de l’eau). In this position he chaired the International Commissions for the Protection of the Moselle and the Sarre (2010‐2011) and from 2011 to 2013 he has been the Chair of the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR).

Prior to joining Luxembourg’s civil service, Dr. André Weidenhaupt lectured Environmental Technology at the Luxembourg University of applied sciences and was the Director of the Environmental Technology Research Centre (CRTE) at the Public Research Centre CRP Henri Tudor in Luxembourg.

Baas is an expert in environment and climate change working for Lux-Development, the development cooperation agency of the Luxembourg government. He advises on environment and climate related matters and provides guidance and technical support to LuxDev’s various projects and programmes around the world. Currently a key objective is to integrate climate change action (adaptation and mitigation) as a cross-cutting priority into overall development work. In his current function he acts as focal point for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and he coordinates the agency's climate portfolio development. Further he advises on the LuxDev’s efforts to deliver on Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility. In partner countries Baas supports the strengthening of capacities, documents best practices, and fosters partnerships and collaboration.

Before joining LuxDev, he worked for PwC, EY, the Delegation of the European Union to Lao PDR, and the UN World Food Programme in the Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction unit. He is an alumnus of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and holds a MSc in earth system science and multilingual in English, French, German, and Luxembourgish.

Christopher is an independent advisor on climate and environmental finance. Until 2018 he was a long term staff member of EIB with a background covering development economics and finance, project finance, PPPs as well as conventional credits to corporate and banking customers. He started to develop serious concerns about climate and environmental degradation in the 1980s, in part having seen the environmental damage wrought by uncontrolled heavy industry in the CEE region and also being exposed to environmental and demographic stress in many developing countries. In his final role at EIB – leading a team focused on climate and environmental finance and junior risk products – he sought to ensure that EIB, the free world’s largest publicly owned bank, contributed appropriately to the climate change agenda, through scale (€20bn annually) and innnovation.

He is a member of the advisory councils for the OECD Centre for Green Finance and Investment and also the Climate Bond Initiative. He has served on the Supervisory Boards and Advisory Committees of numerous clean energy, environmental, infrastructure and carbon funds, and continues in this capacity as an Independent Director of fund vehicles.