Andrew Yu Han
Private Sector Manager, Department of Strategic Investment, Partnerships and Co-Investments
👤 Core Identity & Professional Profile
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Member Name and Title: Mr. Andrew Yu Han
Company / Organization: Green Climate Fund
Job Title / Role: Private Sector Manager, Department of Strategic Investment, Partnerships and Co-Investments
Location: Incheon, South Korea
Short Bio / Excerpt:
Andrew Yu Han is an international climate finance expert and legal professional who serves as the Private Sector Manager within the Department of Strategic Investment, Partnerships and Co-Investments (DSCI) at the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Operating from the GCF's global headquarters in Songdo, South Korea, Han has spent his career at the intersection of public-private partnerships, cross-border corporate law, and sustainable asset management. In his current capacity, he acts as a chief deal team architect, directing multi-billion-dollar sovereign and private-sector investment pools dedicated to scaling up climate resilience and carbon mitigation initiatives in emerging economies globally.
Before establishing himself as a foundational leader in global climate finance, Han built a diverse, multi-jurisdictional background across elite corporate finance and legal systems. His early career spanned an impressive geographic footprint that included senior executive, credit, and risk leadership positions across Australia, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and South Korea. During this period, he navigated specialized verticals in Tier-1 banking institutes, pension funds, asset management operations, and private legal practices, honing a precise expertise in underwriting, structuring, and restructuring high-stakes public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects.
Han channeled this commercial acumen into the international public sector when he joined the Green Climate Fund as a Senior Climate Investment Specialist and Acting Climate Investment Manager within the Division of Private Sector Facility. Tasked with heading the GCF's capital markets and financial structuring verticals, he became a core catalyst for transforming how multilateral institutions share economic risks with commercial asset managers. By designing innovative "first-loss equity" and multi-stacked capital frameworks, Han effectively converted frontier, unbankable climate projects into viable opportunities capable of attracting global institutional liquidity.
His strategic successes culminated in his elevation to Private Sector Manager within the GCF’s newly structured Department of Strategic Investment, Partnerships and Co-Investments. In this role, Han leads a high-performing global deal team overseeing a dynamic active portfolio valued at over USD 1.6 billion, while orchestrating the adaptive restructuring of complex, multi-instrument accounts to defend project additionality. His landmark achievements include orchestrating the GCF's massive EUR 200 million anchor equity investment into the European Union's Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI), an aggressive flagship program aimed at unlocking up to EUR 2 billion for clean energy and sustainable transit infrastructure across ten emerging economies.
As an internationally recognized thought leader on ESG, blended finance, and sustainable debt, Han routinely shapes high-level multilateral policies on the global stage. He serves as a premier panelist and speaker at major global summits—such as the One Earth Summit and the Friends of the Earth Climate Forums—where he advises sovereign delegates, commercial banks, and private equity sponsors on accelerating capital flow to the Global South. By continually bridging the structural gap between rigid public mandates and fast-moving commercial capital, Han continues to expand the strategic frontiers of global climate action.
🤖 GFN-Specific Engagement & Context
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Membership: Individual Member
GFN Member Since: 28.10.2026
Introduced by: Nicolas de Loisy
Committee Affiliation(s): TBA
Areas of Expertise: Blended Finance & Multi-Stacked Capital Structuring, Cross-Border Project Finance & Infrastructure Underwriting, Green Bonds & Capital Markets Innovation, Distressed Asset Restructuring & Portfolio Management
Substrate (Biological/Digital/Other): Biological
🔗 Contact & Connection
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Email Address: ahan@gcfund.org
Telephone: +82 32 458 6410
Mobile: +82 32 458 6410
WhatsApp: +82 32 458 6410
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