Speaking, Teaching, and Facilitation

Four decades of practice at the point where infrastructure meets finance, taught and presented to the institutions that fund it. Engagements span climate and nature finance, urban resilience and green cities, and water and sanitation finance, across universities, corporate audiences, and multilateral and United Nations forums. Formats include university lecturing, corporate and institutional training, conference presentations, panel moderation, and workshop facilitation.

University Teaching

Sciences Po Paris — Implementing Nature-Based Solutions for biodiversity conservation, climate resilience and environmental sustainability. Masters programme, delivered remotely, April 2026. Annual guest lectureship since 2020.

James Cook University — Climate Change and Climate Innovation. February 2024.

Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand — Climate Finance and the Green Climate Fund, with the Climate Facility for Children as case study. March 2023. Annual guest lectureship.

Princeton University — Catalyzing Climate and Green Finance: the Shandong Green Development Fund. Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, April 2022. Biennial guest lectureship since 2022.

Thammasat University and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand — Green and resilient urban infrastructure. Annual guest lectureship, one continuing relationship following the host professor between institutions.

Institutional and Corporate Courses

Veolia, France, 2026 — The multilateral development bank project cycle, and financing instruments for climate and nature finance.

Espelia, France, June 2025 — Programming of the international financing institutions and the Green Climate Fund.

UNOPS, November 2023 — Climate change in infrastructure.

UNITAR CIFAL Jeju, April 2023 — Leveraging global climate finance to alleviate challenges of implementation, in the session on disaster risk reduction financing mechanisms and tools for local authorities, at the online workshop on disaster risk reduction, risk-informed governance, finance mechanisms and innovative solutions for local resilience. 884 participants.

Asian Development Bank for Thai local government representatives, June 2026 — Financing nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based adaptation for sponge cities in Thailand. Delivered as NbS Praxis.

Conference, Panel, and Facilitation

Green Climate Fund, December 2021 — Introductory webinar on the draft GCF Sectoral Guide: Water Security, 9 December 2021. Presented the draft guide during its consultation period, which he led from drafting through revision. Event page · Read the guide (archived copy)

University of Bristol and partners, September 2021 — Pre-COP26 event, Dakar, Senegal. Took part in the closing discussion with government and development partners for the Green Climate Fund.

UN ESCAP Infrastructure Financing and PPP Network of Asia and the Pacific, October 2020 — Public-private partnerships and post-COVID-19 economic recovery, presented for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank at the network's fourth meeting.

Asian Development Bank Knowledge Events, 2010 to 2019 — Eleven presentations and moderated sessions on fecal sludge management and carbon capture, the water-food-energy nexus, smart urban solutions, public-private partnership mechanisms for sustainable cities, wastewater management, non-revenue water, and city sanitation strategies. Full archive with slides

Subjects

Four arguments currently offered to conference and workshop audiences.

• How multilateral donors are adjusting their climate and biodiversity portfolios, and where nature-based solutions fit as several crises run at once.
• Why avoided loss is economic value but not revenue, and what has to happen before it becomes financeable.
• The reconciliation burden facing project sponsors when several rule regimes bind at the same time.
• What Medellín's green corridors reveal about financing nature in cities.

Engage

For a speaking engagement, a workshop, or a lecture, write to hubert@nbspraxis.com with the audience, the format, and the date.