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Jay is currently Co-Founder & Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group and has over 20 years of experience in investing and public policy in the public and private sectors. Jay Koh founded GARI in 2015 in collaboration with key partners at the Paris COP21 climate talks.In 2020, GARI received support from Kresge Foundation to form a non-profit focused on broadening and deepening the stakeholder network, expanding and deepening thought leadership and dissemination of information, and identifying new financial instruments to advance climate adaptation and resilience investment. Since 2016, GARI has convened over 50 in-person and remotely-accessible meetings in New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, and London, bringing together over 400 private sector investors and other stakeholders from pension funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, banks and investment managers to corporations, start-ups, think tanks, advisory firms and development finance institutions.

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The idea was to bring together in as open a manner as possible interested investors, climate experts, and other stakeholders to focus on how to practically invest in the face of climate adaptation and resilience needs. Now an official partner of A2R, GARI was designed to bring together private investors and a range of other stakeholder groups to focus on investment and climate adaptation and resilience. GARI was conceived in 2015 and launched at COP21 in Paris in conjunction with the UN Secretary General’s Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R) Climate Resilience Initiative.