Christian Grossmann is World Bank Group Director for Climate Change, focused on supporting the International Finance Corporation’s climate-smart investments and private sector engagement.

Mr. Grossmann has been a Director at IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, since 1998. Most recently he served as IFC’s director of Corporate Strategy, where he co-authored the 2013 World Bank Group strategy and a joint report of 31 development institutions on development through the private sector.
From 2002-2006, Mr. Grossmann was based in Moscow, Russia, where he managed the Private Enterprise Partnership – IFC’s advisory facility with over 300 staff in the countries of the former Soviet Union. In that position, Mr. Grossmann successfully introduced several new product lines, most notably in energy efficiency, financial markets and investment climate reform.

Before joining IFC as its Controller, Mr. Grossmann held senior finance positions within Dresdner Bank Group in Paris, New York and Frankfurt. Earlier in his career, Mr. Grossmann worked as an international management consultant in Europe, the United States and South Africa as well as a civil engineer in France and North Africa.
Mr. Grossmann, a German national, holds German and French engineering degrees and an MBA from Insead, Fontainebleau. He is married and has one son.