Nicholas Gatheru

Climate Finance & ESG Expert

Project Feasibility, Safeguards & Green Climate Fund Structuring Specialist

18+ Years Experience
GCF Specialist
ESG & ESIA Lead
Master in Climate Adaptation

✦ Executive Biography

Nicholas Gatheru has over 15 years of professional experience in project feasibility, climate change adaptation, environmental & social safeguards, and Green Climate Fund (GCF) project structuring.

He focuses on creating sustainable economic growth and mobilizing climate finance across Africa by developing robust ESG frameworks, conducting ESIAs, and structuring bankable climate resilience programs.

✦ Selected Key Projects

GCF / Private Sector (2023–2024)

GCF Readiness: Burundi

Private sector climate resilience program design.

GCF / Private Sector (2020–Ongoing)

GCF Readiness: Mali

Private sector climate finance mobilization.

GCF / La Banque Agricole (2021–Ongoing)

Climate-Smart Agriculture: Senegal

Agriculture finance facility structuring.

KenGen / AFD (2023–2024)

Masinga Dam Spillway Raising

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA).

World Bank / PPP (2022–2024)

Pwani Univ. Teaching Hospital

Comprehensive environmental feasibility study.

KWS & DSWT (2020)

Tsavo Wildlife Water Project

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA).

GEF (2020–2023)

GEF CBIT Transparency Projects

Transparency initiative implementation in Malawi & Togo.

🎓 Education

Master in Climate Change Adaptation

University of Nairobi (2014)

MA in Sociology

Rural & Community Dev., Univ. of Nairobi (2005)

BA in Environmental Studies

Kenyatta University (2002)

🔬 Core Expertise

Green Climate Fund (GCF)
ESIA
ESG Assessment
Biodiversity
Climate Finance
GHG Inventories