PRIVATE FINANCE for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT New Approaches in Development Finance: the Need for Mobilisation Towards Greater Transformation and Impact

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PRIVATE FINANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT New approaches in development finance: the need for mobilisation towards greater transformation and impact

Monday, 29 January 2018 OECD Paris Boulogne Auditorium Join the conversation on #PF4SDG @OECDdev

Welcome & Opening

Jorge Moreira da Silva Director OECD Development Co-operation Mr. Moreira da Silva is since 1st November 2016 the Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD) at OECD. From 2013 to 2015, he was Portugal’s Minister of Environment, Energy and Spatial Planning. Prior to this Ministerial position, Mr. Moreira da Silva served as Senior Environmental Finance Advisor and Programme Manager on Climate Change Innovative Finance at UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy (2009-2012); Senior Advisor to the President of Portugal (2006-2009); Secretary of State for Science and Higher Education (2003-2004); Secretary of State for Environment and Spatial Planning (2004-2005); Member of the Portuguese Parliament (1995-99; 2005-2006; 2015-16); and Member of the European Parliament (1999-2003). As Member of the European Parliament, he was the Standing Draftsman on climate change and he authored the Report and the political agreement on the EU GHG Emissions Trading Directive in 2003. He has served as Visiting Full Professor at the Lisbon University and Founder and Chairman, since 2011, of the Lisbon-based think-tank Platform for a Sustainable Growth. He also served as First Vice- President of the Executive Board of Partido Social Democrata, PSD (2010-2016). Mr. Moreira da Silva graduated from the University of Porto with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds a postgraduate degree in Senior Management from the AESE-IESE Business School, Navarra University, Spain. As Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), Mr. Moreira da Silva plays a key role in positioning the OECD’s work on development co-operation at the leading edge. He supports the work of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and collaborates closely with other components of the OECD's Development Cluster to strengthen the Organisation’s contribution to the international governance architecture, as well as to OECD-wide initiatives such as NAEC, Inclusive Growth, and work in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Brenda Killen Deputy-Director OECD Development Co-operation Brenda Killen was appointed deputy director of the OECD Development Co- operation Directorate in June 2014. As Deputy Director of the OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate, Brenda Killen leads work to improve policy-making, delivery, monitoring and accountability of global development assistance. Ms. Killen joined the OECD in 2007 and has over 25 years’ experience leading the design and delivery of international development programmes. Previously, as Deputy Director of Health Policy, Development and Services at the World Health Organization, she helped define WHO’s development policy and role in accelerating progress towards the health Millennium Development Goals. She has also worked for the UK Department for International Development in several senior roles. An experienced economist, Ms. Killen has extensive field experience in Africa.

Gabriela Ramos Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20 OECD

Gabriela Ramos is the OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20. Besides supporting the Strategic Agenda of the Secretary General, she is responsible for the contributions of the Organisation to the global agenda, including the G20 and the G7. She leads the Inclusive Growth Initiative and the New Approaches to Economic Challenges and also oversees the work on Education, Employment and Social Affairs (including gender). Previously, she served as Head of the OECD Office in Mexico and Latin America, co-ordinating several reports on Mexico to advance the health and education reform. She developed the OECD’s Mexico Forum and edited and launched the “Getting it Right” flagship publication series. Prior to joining the OECD, Ms Ramos held several positions in the Mexican Government, including Director of Economic Affairs (and OECD issues) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Technical Secretary at the Office of the Minister for the Budget. She has also held several positions as Professor of International Economy at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Ms Ramos holds an MA in Public Policy from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright and Ford MacArthur fellow. She was decorated with the Ordre du Merit by the President of France, François Hollande, in 2013.

Scene Setting Panel

Moderator Amar Bhattacharya Senior Fellow Brookings Institution

Amar is Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings Institution. His focus areas are the global economy, development finance, global governance, and the links between climate and development including on the role of sustainable infrastructure. His latest major publication is a report on Delivering on Sustainable Infrastructure for

Better Development and Better Climate. From April 2007 until September 2014 he was Director of the Group of 24, an intergovernmental group of developing country Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. In that capacity he led the work program of the Group, supported the deliberations of the Ministers, and was the principal point of interface with other organizations including the G20. In this capacity he was an active participant in the global economic discussions and a key representative of the views of developing countries. Prior to taking up his position with the G24, Mr. Bhattacharya had a long-standing career in the World Bank. His last position was as Senior Advisor and Head of the International Policy and Partnership Group. In this capacity, he was the focal point for the Bank’s engagement with key international groupings and institutions such as the G7/G8, G20, IMF, OECD and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Through these different positions Mr. Bhattacharya has had a long standing engagement in research and policy discussions on the global economy and spillovers, international financial architecture, development financing and the global governance agenda including on the role and reform of the international financial institutions. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Delhi and Brandeis University and his graduate education at Princeton University.

Jean-Michel Severino Chief Executive Officer Investisseurs & Partenaires

Jean-Michel Severino succeeded to Patrice Hoppenot in May 2011 as CEO of Investisseurs et Partenaires (I&P), an impact investing and private equity firm, which focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises and microfinance institutions in Africa. Prior to I&P, Mr. Severino served as Vice-President for Asia at the World Bank (1997-2001) and as Director General of the French Development Agency (2001-2010). Mr. Severino chairs the board of Ecobank International. He serves as chair of the audit committee for Danone’s board and is a member of its corporate social responsibility committee. He is also a member of the board of Orange (France Telecom). Mr. Severino graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and the Sorbonne University (degree in Law). He then entered the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, from which he graduated in 1984.

Thierry Déau Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Meridiam Thierry Déau founded Meridiam in 2005. Meridiam is an independent investment firm specialized in the development, financing, and management of long-term public infrastructure projects. It currently holds offices in Paris, New York, Toronto, Istanbul, and Dakar, and is a leading investor in public infrastructure across Europe, North America and Africa.

Nancy Lee Visiting Fellow Centre for Global Development

Nancy Lee is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and a member of Center's Advisory Group. Her work at CGD focuses on the role of development banks in mobilizing private finance and increasing development impact. Previously, she was the Deputy Chief Executive

Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an innovative, independent U.S. aid agency that fights poverty through country compacts that support inclusive growth. Prior to joining MCC, Dr. Lee was the General Manager (CEO) of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) at the Inter- American Development Bank, the Bank’s laboratory for private sector-led development and a key impact investor in the region. Under Dr. Lee's leadership, the MIF launched initiatives in lending to women-owned SMEs; a public-private partnership to scale youth job training programs; a program to introduce social impact bonds to the region; and innovative climate finance models. Previously, Dr. Lee served at the U.S. Treasury Department, where she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere and for Europe and Eurasia. She led Treasury’s work to put financial inclusion, SME finance, and women’s access to finance on the G20 agenda.

State of Play: Principles & Policies

Moderator Haje Schütte Head of Division, Financing for Sustainable Development OECD

As Head of the Statistics and Development Finance Division, Mr. Schütte leads work at the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on Development Finance through data collection and reporting, establishing statistical measurement frameworks and analysis on key development finance topics. He also coordinates work on leveraging private sector investment to achieve sustainable green, low-carbon and climate resilient development. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Development.

Colin Buckley Chief Operating Officer & Head of Corporate Strategy UK DFI CDC Group

Colin’s background is in International Development and Corporate Finance. Prior to joining CDC, Colin held senior positions at the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the International Finance Corporation. After the Russo-Georgian war of 2008, he advised the Prime Minister of Georgia on the country's economic reconstruction. Prior to his work in international development, Colin practiced as a US attorney and a UK solicitor in Boston and London.

Kajsa Olofsgård Ambassador for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Sweden

In her capacity as Ambassador for the 2030 Agenda Ms Olofsgård was the Swedish lead negotiator during the Intergovernmental Negotiations in New York. She now serves as the coordinator for Sweden of the international commitments under the Agenda. This includes leading at team responsible for the MFAs work on the 2030Agenda, Financing for Development and Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development, main-streaming the fulfillment through the government offices. She earlier served as Deputy Director General and Head of the Department for International Trade Policy at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She also has a

4 long experience as senior analyst at the Swedish National Board of Trade. (The Board is an independent governmental agency, a research and consultant institution on trade and trade related issues.)

Cameron Khosrowshahi Chief Investment Officer, Private Capital & Microenterprise Office United States Agency for International Development

Cameron is a founding member of USAID's Office of Private Capital and Microenterprise, which structures facilities and transactions focused on mobilizing private sector investment alongside donor funding, driving capital flows into key emerging market sectors such as infrastructure, SME growth, and clean energy. Cameron has designed and executed transactions and development projects in the areas of local business growth and workforce development, privatization, PPP concessions, project finance, municipal finance, early stage finance, private sector development, and capital markets development. He also served as a pre-launch member of the transactions arm of the Power Africa Presidential Initiative, launched in 2013 with top-line objectives of adding 30,000 MW of power generation and connecting 60 million new users throughout Africa.

Wimboh Santoso, S.E., MSc, PhD Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Financial Services Authority Indonesia

Wimboh Santoso took the first step of his career by taking a job as banking supervisor at Bank Indonesia, following the completion of his undergraduate study at the State University of Surakarta in 1983. He pursued a further study at University of Illinois and gained a Master’s degree in Business Administration in 1993. His thirst for knowledge led him to enroll to Loughborough University, from which he took home a PhD in Banking and Finance in 1999. Wimboh, who was born on March 15, 1957, in Boyolali, Central Java, continued dedicating his expertise to Indonesia’s banking industry by serving as Director of Banking Research and Regulation at Bank Indonesia from 2010 to 2012. Later, he was appointed as Head of Bank Indonesia Representative of New York, before joining the International Monetary Fund to take an executive director’s seat there. Since 2015, Wimboh has been the President Commissioner at PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, and in 2016, he also became Indonesian Banking Development Institute Director. The senior banker was part of Bank Indonesia delegation for a G20 meeting in 2010, and in the same year he also represented the Central Bank at the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Then in 2014, he co-chaired the Asean Banking Integration Framework. The prominent bureaucrat attained a number of certificates from the Banking Professional Certification Institute (LSPP) for a range of topics, from Risk Management Competency Levels 1 and 2, Facing Global Challenges for Better Economic Growth (2017), to Managing Compliance Risk while Controlling Cost.

Launch of the OECD report “Making Blended Finance work for the SDGs”

Charlotte Petri Gornitzka Chair OECD Development Assistance Committee

Charlotte was elected as Chair of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in 2016. Prior to this, she served as Director-General of the Swedish International Development Co- operation Agency (SIDA) where she emphasised Sweden’s role as leader in development cooperation and led efforts to implement innovative models to stimulate private sector engagement in development activities. There she established a network of Swedish and Swedish-based companies that work together to demonstrate leadership in sustainable global development. She has previously served as Secretary-General of Save the Children International (2008-2010) and Secretary-General of Save the Children Sweden (2003-2008). From 1998-2002, she served as Under Secretary-General and Director of Communications for the Swedish Red Cross. Charlotte has a background in management consulting with a focus on change management and communications. She holds a Master’s degree from Stockholm University College of Music Education as well as a degree in Business and Marketing studies from IHM Business School. Charlotte serves as Co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on International Governance, Public-Private Cooperation and Sustainable Development. She is also a Member of the Stewardship Board for Economic Growth and Social Inclusion as well as a Member of the 2030 Water Resources Group Governing Council.

Jorge Moreira da Silva Director OECD Developmet Co-operation

See biography at page 1.

Breakout 1: MOBILISATION

Moderator Paul Horrocks Head of unit, Private Finance for Sustainable Development OECD

Paul Horrocks is leading the Private Finance work in the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate. In this respect he is developing a number of initiatives to get more private finance into energy projects, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. An example of this high level policy work is the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership (SDIP) which has the aim of mobilising USD 100 billion in financing over 5 years to infrastructure projects in developing countries. The partnership targets potential private investments by improving and enhancing instruments to reduce potential risks in the infrastructure and energy sectors. Prior to this, Paul was a Senior Executive in the Australian Federal Treasury, leading policy work on infrastructure during Australia’s G20 presidency.

Paul also has over a decade in senior positions at the European Institutions, particular on Infrastructure policy and project finance, including the EUs project bond initiative. Paul has degrees from the University of Wales, and Masters from the University of Liverpool as well as an Executive MBA from Vlerick Business School in Belgium.

Aron Betru Managing Director Center for Financial Markets, Milken Institute

Aron Betru, Managing Director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute, with more than 15 years of experience, leads strategic innovative financing initiatives to enhance social impact. Mr. Betru’s prior experience includes international development roles at Financing For Development, UN Foundation, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, and private sector roles at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Betru is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations as well as member of Board of Directors for Calvert and FHI Foundation. He holds an MBA from Columbia University, an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a BA in Economics and International Studies from Northwestern University.

Kruskaia Sierra-Escalante Manager of the Blended Finance Unit IFC

Kruskaia Sierra-Escalante is currently the Manager of IFC’s Blended Finance - New Business and Portfolio within the Blended Finance Department. Since 2013, Kruskaia managed the Blended Climate Finance unit and its approximately $1 billion bilateral and multi-lateral donor- contributions for climate-smart co-investments in IFC projects. During this period, the blended climate finance portfolio doubled in volume and enabled projects in riskier markets. She also headed the Blended Finance unit, a governance unit performing credit review, quality assurance and knowledge sharing functions for all blended finance sectors. Prior to taking these roles, Kruskaia was IFC’s Global Lead Counsel for Climate and Blended Finance. Kruskaia holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs, with a concentration in Economics and Public Policy, from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law. Before joining IFC in 2003, Kruskaia was at Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, working primarily in project financings in the power sector.

Ibrahima Kane Chief Executive Officer FONSIS

Ibrahima KANE serves since 2016 as CEO of FONSIS (Sovereign Wealth Fund of Senegal) which manages government assets and invest in projects. Formerly, Mr KANE was Executive Director in charge of Agro-industry, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and SMEs, since the creation of FONSIS. Prior to FONSIS, he spent 19 years in Agro-industry across Africa and in France, of which 12 years in managerial executive positions. Mr KANE holds an Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering and Management, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, FRANCE.

Lasitha Perera Chief Executive Officer GuarantCo

Lasitha is Chief Executive Officer at GuarantCo, the guarantee arm of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) that is funded by the governments of the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. GuarantCo uses risk mitigation instruments, such as guarantees, to credit enhance local currency debt issuance by the private, municipal and parastatal infrastructure sectors in lower income countries. Lasitha joined GuarantCo in 2009, and prior to his current role was Chief Investment Officer with responsibility for the origination and execution of projects in GuarantCo’s focus markets of Africa and Asia. Prior to joining GuarantCo, Lasitha was an Investment Director of Total Capital, a private equity fund, where he was responsible for new investments and represented the fund on the boards of portfolio companies in the UK and Nordic region. Prior to this he worked at Barclays Capital in London and New York in a variety of debt capital markets roles.

Rodrigo Salvado Deputy Director Development Policy and Finance, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Rodrigo Salvado is Deputy Director of International Development Finance and contributes to the foundation’s efforts to produce high quality policy analysis that help to (i) optimize the allocation and impact of domestic resources to human development in our priority countries, including how BMFG can best help to realize the potential created by new extractives discoveries in Africa; (ii) better engage with multilateral financing institutions and global forums to advance our strategic priorities; and (iii) provide policy and technical guidance to program and policy teams for operating effectively in a global context. In addition, he also looks at innovative approaches for development financing in middle income countries. Before joining the Foundation, Rodrigo worked for the African Development Bank Group where he was in charge of the Performance Based Allocation System of the African Development Fund and the coordination of the Annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) exercise. He also provided support to the design and implementation of the African Financial Markets Initiative AFMI and The Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) Partnership. Prior to his job at the AfDB, Rodrigo worked as a policy analyst for the Center for International Development at Harvard University and as a Senior Financial Analyst at the Central American Bank for Economic Integration in Honduras. He holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a Master in Economics from the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros in Madrid, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina.

Breakout 2: TRANSFORMATION

Moderator Jens Sedemund Senior Advisor, Private Finance for Sustainable Development OECD

Jens Sedemund is Senior Advisor on Development Finance at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Jens’ current work focuses on Blended Finance, as well as climate-related development finance, in the Statistics and Development Finance Division of the Development Cooperation Directorate. Until 2016, Jens headed the office of the Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, working closely with the Chair on the political dimensions and on the agenda setting of the DAC’s work, and taking the lead on launching new initiatives, including the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership, and the ReDesigning Development Finance Initiative. Jens joined OECD initial for work on the development dimensions of trade. He subsequently developed and led the DAC’s engagement with non-OECD countries and emerging economies. Prior to OECD, his experience include working in microfinance and on launching a B2B marketplace for international commodity trade. Jens holds a Masters’ degree in History from Bonn University, Germany, and a Master’s in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, USA.

Amal-lee Amin Chief of the Climate Change Division Inter-American Development Bank

Dr. Amal-Lee Amin is the Chief Division of the Climate Change division at the Inter- American Development Bank, where she manages an extensive portfolio of climate change adaptation, mitigation and knowledge activities for all of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Alexandra Sombsthay Diplomatic advisor Solar Impulse

Renewable energy expert, Alexandra Sombsthay is working as the diplomatic advisor for the Solar Impulse Foundation. Previously to this position, she worked at the European Commission in the Directorate General for Energy, in the unit dedicated to Renewable Energy. She was in charge of relations with China, India and the US on overall energy issues over the period 2008-2013. Alexandra was posted 2006-2007 at the EU delegation in Beijing where she initiated the Euro-China Clean Energy Center. She has previously worked as adviser for European Affairs in the cabinet of the Belgian Minister for Environment and Energy as well as for the Minister of Transport. She also worked as a lawyer in a law firm specialized in environment and energy law. Mrs Sombsthay graduated from the European College of Bruges in 2001 and then passed the Certificat d’Accès à la Profession d’Avocat in 2004 (France). Beyond her professional activities, she has given lectures to Master students of the Business school ESSEC (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris), Master’s students of the Firenze University (A.Spinelli program), the Economic Faculty of Roma, the College of Europe and the Chinese Academy of Governance. She has published a number of articles on the impact of air transport on environment and on China energy policy.

Olav Kjørven Chief Strategic Officer EAT Foundation

Olav Kjørven is Chief Strategic Officer at the EAT Foundation, Oslo Norway. In this role Olav provides strategic oversight to EAT’s policy work, leads engagement on global policy arenas, and guides EAT’s science and knowledge initiatives for maximum impact on food systems policies and practices. Olav’s career spans political leadership roles for Norwegian development cooperation and several senior leadership posts at the United Nations. He led the Bureau for Development Policy of the United Nations Development Program for almost seven years, overseeing an international staff of some 360, programs delivering in the hundreds of millions every year, and policy work ranging from democratic governance to climate change. He played a central role in the complex process that led to Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, including organizing the largest global consultation ever undertaken by the UN with millions of people engaged. Olav led UNICEF’s Division for Public Partnerships from 2014 to 2017, responsible for leading global political engagement and resource mobilization from governments and international organizations. In 2005, Olav instigated and set up the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, which produced its groundbreaking report “Making the Law Work for Everyone” in 2008. He served as the UN Secretary General’s coordinator for the UN’s engagement in development with the G20. Olav holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University and is a Norwegian national.

Pasi Hellman Managing Director Nordic Development Fund

Pasi Hellman is the Managing Director of the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) since November 2012. NDF is a multilateral development finance institution, focusing on climate change and development. It was established by the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) in 1989. Hellman has an overall more than 25 years of experience from international development and relations, development finance and multilateral diplomacy. He has worked in various positions at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in Helsinki, lastly as Deputy Director General for Development Cooperation between 2007 and 2012. In 2004-2007 he served in the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, the Philippines. He has also served in Finnish embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and the Hague, the Netherlands. In addition, he has wide experience from serving as Finland’s officially appointed representative in the governing bodies of various International Financial Institutions and UN organizations, including as Finland’s chief negotiator in the replenishments of the International Development Association, African Development Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development. Hellman has received his PhD (in economics) from Turku School of Economics in Finland in 1996, and his MsC. (in economics) in the same institution in 1991. He has published articles on topics related to internationalization in the financial sector, global development and development finance.

Breakout 3: IMPACT Moderator Karen Wilson Social Impact Investing Initiative, Private Finance for Sustainable Development OECD

Karen has been working at the OECD since 2009 where her work has focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance including angel investment, venture capital, impact investment and the role of the private sector in development finance. She is also an Associate Fellow at Said Business School at Oxford University and a Visiting Lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. In addition to other boards and advisory positions, she serves on the Harvard Business School Impact Investment Alumni Steering Committee. Karen is the Founder of GV Partners, a research and consulting firm focused on entrepreneurship and finance. She was a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, an international economics think tank based in Brussels from 2012-2017 and a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation from 2008-2012. Earlier, Karen worked with international venture capital firm, Index Ventures, and before that was part of the senior management team at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of the Global Initiative at Harvard Business School. Her earlier experience includes investment banking and consulting. She received, with honors, a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Alice Chapple Head of Development Impact Private Infrastructure Development Group

Alice Chapple established consultancy company Impact Value in 2012, providing advice to private equity funds, companies, and impact investors on how they can design their commercial strategies to create the best impact for society and the environment, and how they can monitor and measure their results. Recent clients include AgDevCo, the DFID Impact Programme, the Moringa Fund, the Global Innovation Fund, FSD Africa, the Frontier Clearing Fund, AKFED, the Gatsby Foundation’s Msingi Fund, Centrica’s Ignite Fund, Khushhali Microfinance Bank and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG). At PIDG, Alice heads up the Development Impact team. She is currently also an advisor to the UK’s Department for International Development on evaluation of the impact of their private sector programmes. Prior to setting up Impact Value, Alice was Director of Sustainable Financial Markets at the sustainable development charity Forum for the Future, working on projects exploring how to drive more capital to sustainable outcomes. Before joining Forum, Alice worked at development finance institution CDC in various roles, including financial analyst, fund manager, and social and environmental advisor. She also worked for Actis, the emerging markets private equity firm. Alice is a Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and a Trustee of the Shell Foundation. She sits on the Advisory Board of the Liontrust Sustainable Future Funds. She is the Chair of the Technical Assistance Committee for the DFID Impact Fund and Impact Accelerator Fund. She has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and is a chartered accountant.

Gerbrand Haverkamp Executive Director Index Initiative Gerbrand Haverkamp is the founder and Executive Director of Index Initiative. Index Initiative one of the founding partners and drivers behind the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). The WBA intents to fund, house and safeguard publicly available corporate SDG performance benchmarks. Free corporate benchmarks aligned with the SDGs will help companies, investors and others drive change by raising awareness and promoting a corporate race to the top. Before starting Index Initiative Gerbrand worked for the Dutch Government in the areas of inclusive business, sustainable agricultural supply chains and food security.

Mara Bolis Senior Advisor on Market Systems Oxfam America

Mara has more than 20 years of experience working in the fields of international development, emerging markets finance and business. Bolis leads on Oxfam's work on shareholder advocacy with US corporations, as well as influencing work on impact investing. Bolis helped set up the Women in Small Enterprise initiative, which includes Oxfam America’s first impact investing fund that focuses on women entrepreneurs in Latin America. Prior to Oxfam, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an emerging markets financial sector analyst. She has worked with various international finance and development organizations, including US Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the World Bank. She has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Royston Braganza Chief Executive Officer Grameen Capital

Royston joined Grameen Capital in 2007 to launch the organization as CEO. He currently oversees all aspects of operations in India. Grameen Capital is a collaboration between Grameen Foundation USA, IFMR Trust and Citigroup, is a first of its kind social business enabling Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) develop wider access to the capital markets. Grameen Capital is part of the global Grameen family of companies, the flagship of which is the Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank founded by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. In his earlier assignment, as a Senior Vice President with HSBC, Royston was instrumental in setting up and heading HSBC’s Microfinance & Priority Sector business. Prior to that, he was the head of HSBC’s SME Business. Before joining HSBC, Royston worked in Citibank India for over 8 years in various assignments both across the Consumer Bank as well as the Corporate Bank. He serves on many boards and advisory bodies, including Sa-Dhan, Grameen Foundation India, FICCI Financial Inclusion Committee, the CII National Committee on NBFC’s, the United Nations Microfinance Resource Group and the Indian Impact Investors Executive Council. He has been invited to address various programs, in India and globally, promoting microfinance as a sustainable tool to eradicate poverty. The London-based Finance Monthly publication named Royston in their 2013 Global CEO Award Winners list as one of the Top 4 CEOs in Asia, and Top 2 in India, the other one being Kumar Mangalam Birla. Royston has done his Masters in Management Studies from the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Way forward

Moderator Amar Bhattacharya Senior Fellow Brookings institution

See biography at page 2.

Adrienne Klasa Editor of This Is Africa the Financial Times Group Adrienne Klasa is editor of This is Africa, the Financial Times’ flagship Africa publication. Her writing has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, Forbes, Slate and Foreign Policy, among others. She speaks and moderates at events worldwide and appears as a commentator on radio, podcasts and broadcast news. She is a 2017 FPI Fellow for women in foreign policy and holds two first class degrees in political science: a Bachelors from McGill University and a Masters from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Alexandre Cabaret Associate Director, Devex

With over 7 years of professional experience taking part in international development projects, Alexandre has been involved in education and institutional development projects financed by the World Bank, EuropeAid and AFD notably. He developed general skills for business development and project management in the field of international development. At Devex since 2011, Alexandre develops and manages large scale projects with international development organisations.

Patrick Lane Banking Editor, The Economist

Patrick is the Banking Editor of The Economist. Previously he edited The Economist‘s daily publication, Espresso. He joined the staff in 1993 as Economics Correspondent, and covered trade and the British economy before becoming Frankfurt Correspondent in 2000. In December 2002 he returned to London, as Finance Editor and then Economics Editor. Between 2007 and 2011 he edited Briefings and was also Deputy Business Affairs Editor. From 2011 until 2014 he was Technology Editor.

Angus Friday Ambassador of Grenada to the US and Mexico

Angus Friday attended Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania, graduated in pre- medical studies and earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine. After that, he went to the University of Strathclyde in Scotland for a Master’s in Business Administration, worked as a product manager for the pharmaceutical company Merck and then founded two medical software start-up companies. Friday was given his first ambassadorial posting in 2007, representing Grenada at the United Nations, which he did until 2008, when there was a change in government in Grenada. While at the UN, Friday was a strong advocate for remediation of the effects of global climate change for Grenada and other island nations. In 2009, Friday went to the World Bank, where he was a specialist in international climate policy with an emphasis on small island nations and Africa. He was at the World Bank until his appointment to Washington.

Edward Brown Director of Policy Advisory Services Africa Centre for Economic Transformation

Edward Brown is the Director of Country Engagements and Operations at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), based in Accra, Ghana. He has more than 35 years experience in international development and public policy, half of which were spent at the World Bank. He has worked extensively in Africa, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Currently at ACET, he manages a pool of in-house senior policy advisors, researchers and economist, drawing on a worldwide pool of expertise to assist African policymakers respond to specific challenges and opportunities—with the explicit goals of transferring knowledge, building local capabilities and spurring economic growth and transformation. His main interests are in public policy, economic management (public resources mobilization and expenditure management), natural resource management, including institutional and organizational reforms and development strategies. He holds a PhD and MA in Development Economics and Demography from the University of Pennsylvania.

Shari Spiegel Chief of Policy Analysis and Development, Financing for Development Office United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Shari Spiegel is Chief of the Policy Analysis & Development Branch in the Financing for Development Office (FfDO) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations (UN-DESA). She was integral in the negotiations on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and currently leads the work on the 50-agency Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development. Ms. Spiegel spent most of her career in the private sector, including as a Principal at New Holland Capital (an advisor to APG, the Dutch Pension Fund) and the Director of fixed income emerging markets at Lazard Asset Management. In the early 1990s, she co-founded and was CEO of Budapest Alapkezelő, which launched the first domestic investment funds in Hungary, and remains one of its largest asset management companies. From 2002-2007 she served as the Executive Director of IPD, a think-tank at Columbia University founded by Nobel Laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, while teaching at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She has also worked as a foreign adviser to the Hungarian Central Bank and as a consultant to the World Bank and the IFC. She is author and co-author of several books and articles, and has an MA (ABD) in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics and applied mathematics from Northwestern University.