Natalia is the Climate Finance Manager at the Climate, Economic, and Finance Program, where she also leads the work around international climate finance, including UNFCCC finance, multilateral climate funds, and financial institutions. Natalia is a team player with over 14 years of experience as a policymaker, researcher, and program manager and she has specialized in environmental policy and climate finance. At WRI, Natalia provides strategic analysis and policy-oriented research on increasing and aligning financial flows across sources and actors, enhancing the quality of climate finance, improving access to international funds, and enhancing climate finance governance and transparency to achieve sustainable climate action.

Natalia has held different roles working with the public sector, think tanks, national development banks, and climate funds. Before joining WRI, Natalia led the environmental finance pillar at the Ministry of Finance (MEF) in Peru, now established as MEF's Environmental Finance Directorate. In this role, Natalia managed the environmental affairs at MEF, where she oversaw the development and assessment of public policies and projects related to climate change and the environment. Natalia’s experience includes participation as a member of the Peruvian delegation for the UNFCCC negotiations and as the focal point of the National Designated Authority to the Green Climate Fund. She has been a delegate of the Peruvian government to the Conference of the Parties (COP) from 2014 to date.

Natalia holds a Master's from Stanford University, a JD, and a second major degree in Environmental and Natural Resources from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru.