Taryn Akiyama is a Project Consultant at Climate Finance Advisors (CFA), member of WSP, with a background in climate finance, risk, resilience, and policy. In this role, she leads a project with the State of Connecticut on designing a program to drive investment and incentivize property owners to implement climate adaptation and resilience measures on their homes.

Furthermore, she oversaw five projects in the European Union-U.S. Climate Alliance (EU-USCA) Climate Risk and Resilience Cooperation to share best practices across the Atlantic, and she built the U.S. Public Sources for Climate Resilience Investment (US-CRI) database to identify federal funding programs related to adaptation and resilience for different use cases.

Prior to WSP, with the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, she researched the role of federal financial regulators in addressing systemic climate risk and assessed climate-related financial disclosure quality among U.S. and international insurers. At the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, Taryn served as a political appointee under Governors Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom, where she supported the Commission on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery examining wildfire liability, insurance, and financing mechanisms.

Taryn holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment and a Sustainability and Climate Risk certification by the Global Association of Risk Professionals.