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Angela Churie Kallhauge is the Executive Vice President, Impact at Environmental Defense Fund. Her work is focused on using inclusive processes and economic approaches to achieve ambitious climate solutions that deliver equitable benefits to people around the world. Angela joined EDF from the World Bank where she served as the head of the Secretariat of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) for five years. Before that she was at the Swedish Energy Agency where she worked on climate change, energy and development issues. She also served as the EU lead negotiator on adaptation and resilience issues under the UNFCCC and represented Sweden in the Adaptation Fund Board where she led the work on accreditation for direct access. Prior to that, Angela spent close to a decade working at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Zimbabwe and Kenya with civil society organizations on climate, energy and development policy.