Alexandra Mieth is a climate and development finance specialist dedicated to advancing financial solutions that strengthen the resilience of climate-vulnerable economies. She currently serves as Project Manager for Climate & Disaster Risk Finance and V20 Programs at the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), based at the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).

In her role, Alexandra leads MCII’s strategic partnership with the Vulnerable Twenty Group of Finance Ministers (V20), driving actionable solutions that connect evidence, policy, and finance. She works closely with the V20 Secretariat to advance the group’s financial protection agenda, providing strategic and technical oversight to the Global Shield against Climate Risks on behalf of the initiative’s Co-Chair, the V20. In this capacity, she supports countries to access pre-arranged finance and strengthen their financial resilience to climate shocks.

Through her collaboration with the V20, she played a key role in shaping and operationalizing the Global Shield, including its governance and implementation design, and established its interim Secretariat at UNU-VIE (2023–2026). Alexandra also heads MCII’s contribution to the V20 Sustainable Insurance Facility (SIF), hosted by UNEP FI’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI), helping expand insurance access for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across V20 economies.

Her work focuses on translating evidence into financial and policy innovation, from embedding climate and disaster risk finance (CDRFI) into the V20’s Climate Prosperity Plans to supporting countries in developing scalable financial protection strategies. She actively contributes to international financial architecture reform processes, particularly around IMF and World Bank approaches to climate risk, and convenes high-level dialogues under the UNFCCC and global finance platforms to accelerate fairer, faster climate finance delivery.

Prior to joining UNU-EHS, Alexandra worked on the nexus of climate mobility, focusing on the Philippines and the Horn of Africa with GIZ Bonn, and contributed to climate change adaptation evaluations at DEval (German Institute for Development Evaluation). She also gained experience in portfolio management of climate and sustainability-linked projects for GIZ in China, and held research and policy positions with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and the German Federal Foreign Office in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Alexandra holds a Master’s in International Relations and Development Policy from the University of Duisburg-Essen and a Bachelor’s in Political Science from the University of Freiburg.