High-level leaders that bring the integrated water and climate agenda to the global political arena and provide high-level guidance to the members of the coalition.
A diverse and dynamic action-focused group of multi-sectoral stakeholders collaborating to tackle water and climate challenges with a special focus on data and information.
Founding Members of the Water and Climate Coalition
Matthias Berninger
Matthias Berninger (born 1971) is a former German politician and member of The Greens from 1993 until 2007. From 2001 to 2005, Berninger served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection under minister Renate Künast in the second cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. After leaving the government, he was his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on economic policy from 2005 until 2007. Since 2019, Berninger has been serving as head of public and government affairs at Bayer.