Marek Szilvasi

climate | health | environmental equity and resilience

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Climate, Environment, and Health Equity Leader with a +15-year success record across strategy and program development, grant-making and managing multi-million-dollar budgets, multi-stakeholder partnerships, research, advocacy, and people management spanning civil society organizations, philanthropy and educational settings. Passionate and engaged manager committed to staff development with experience leading global teams, strives to create inclusive cultures for ownership and participation. Impact areas include climate adaptation and Loss & Damage, climate and health, climate and mobility, public health and global health, equality and social inclusion, antidiscrimination and racism, and human rights.

Experience

  • Advisor on child-sensitive climate and health programming and MEL frameworks at Save the Children Deutschland
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Advisor on climate and health nexus and climate adaptation at Brot für die Welt
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • Strategic Advisor for Climate Action and Green Transition at Open Society Foundations | Western Balkans
    Apr 2024 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs

    A regional OSF office that includes foundations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia. • Providing expertise to OSF WB programmatic staff with regards to the strategic importance of the Conference of the Parties (COP) for the Western Balkans governments green transitions and assist in the identification of the structural gaps in governments capacity to engage in multilateral processes;

  • Director of Programmes at SLYCAN Trust
    Apr 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

    SLYCAN Trust is an international non-profit think tank working on climate change, adaptation and resilience, sustainable development, social justice, entrepreneurship, animal welfare, and related thematic areas. Work spans the national, regional, and global level from technical support provision, policy analysis and evidence-based research, dedicated capacity-building to on-the-ground implementation that aim at strengthening Global South perspectives, equity, and justice. ▪ Program lead and management of ST Programmes, donor partnership and fundraising ▪ Management of ST Bonn office, and direct line supervision of 5 staff ▪ Coordination of the ST thematic work on climate impact, adaptation and L&D, climate and health, water and food systems, mobility and displacement and interlinkages with the UNFCCC and other relevant processes ▪ Engaging with national and international entities at relevant forums, events, and through representation and outreach activities to promote the work and outputs of SLYCAN Trust ▪ Coordinating and guiding team members in organising or conducting consultations, webinars, events, and other relevant project-related activities

  • Expert mandated to assist development of the GGA indicators for climate and health at UN Climate Change
    Sep 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

    The expert convened by the SB Chairs to assist in the technical work under the United Arab Emirates–Belém work programme: https://unfccc.int/topics/adaptation-and-resilience/workstreams/gga