ECB Head of climate change centre will report to President Lagarde Climate change centre will shape and steer ECB’s climate agenda The Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed Irene Heemskerk as head of the ECB’s climate change centre as of 15 June 2021. The ECB launched its climate change centre earlier this year to shape and steer its climate agenda internally and externally, building on the expertise of all teams already working on climate-related topics at the bank. “The climate change centre will focus the ECB’s efforts to address climate change,” said ECB President Christine Lagarde. “Irene Heemskerk brings the experience, knowledge and enthusiasm required to lead the climate change centre’s work and to strengthen the ECB’s role in the fight against climate change within its mandate.”