Adriana Kocornik-Mina is the Senior Urban and Regional Economist at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. In this role, she contributes expertise to teams across WRI Ross Center and its international offices to help build capability for regional economic analysis and accelerate subnational access to finance.

Prior to WRI, Adriana was with the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a membership organisation of more than 70 values-based banks around the world. She brought their best practices to several platforms focused on embedding sustainability criteria in the banking sector: the Expert Review Committee of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Financial System Transformation Benchmark, the Expert Advisory Group for SBTi for Finance, and the ISO Technical Committee 322 on Sustainable Finance. She was a technical expert for Group III during the European Economic and Social Committee's own opinion work on a Social Taxonomy.

Prior to the GABV, Adriana was with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science as a researcher in the Adaptation and Development team where she examined the interactions between adaptation to climate change and national sectoral development, the impact of large scale flooding on economic activity in urban areas worldwide, and the responses of multinational corporations to climate change. Previously, Adriana worked for the US Department of Energy to provide strategic direction and executive leadership for Recovery Act Programs to advance efforts to modernize the electricity grid.

Adriana holds a PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University, a MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University, a MPhil in Development Studies from University of Cambridge, and a BA in International Relations from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

She is married and has two sons, ages 19 and 16.