Agenda

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Speakers

Additional speakers will be announced and added as they are confirmed.

Deidra James

Co-Master of Ceremonies

Independent

Laurie J. Spengler

Co- Master of Ceremonies

Chief Executive Officer

Courageous Capital

Matt Kaczmarek

Managing Director 

BlackRock

Lasitha Perera

CEO & Co-Founder

The Development Guarantee Group

Brian Milder

Founder & CEO

Aceli Africa

Leonora Onyango

Product Manager

Aceli Africa

Maheen Rahman

CEO

InfraZamin

Pakistan

Geneviève Brown

Executive Director, Innovative Finance

Global Affairs

Canada

Job Zongo

Managing Director

Nere Capital

Jules Ngankam

CEO 

Africa Guarantee Fund

Guly Sabahi

Climate Finance Advisor

NDC Partnership Support Unit

Min Hung Cheng

CEO 

Global Asia Insurance Partnership

Thomas Beloe

Director Sustainable Finance Hub

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Hitoshi Hirata

Vice President

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Elizabeth Beall

Managing Director

Finance Earth

Caroline Scott

Director Blended Finance and Investor Engagement Unit

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia

Kusi Hornberger

Partner & Senior Leader in Finance & Investment Practice

  Dalberg

Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen

CEO

GSG Impact

Caitlin MacLean

Managing Director, 

Milken Institute

Christopher Clubb

Managing Director 

Convergence Blended Finance

Joan Miquel Carrillo

Blended Finance Principal Officer

IDB Invest

Leah Pedersen

Senior Director

Convergence Blended Finance

Frederique Dahan

Director of the Development and Public Finance

ODI Global

Carmen Correa

Chief Executive Officer

Pro Mujer

Aakif Merchant

Director, Engagement and Capacity Building and Head of Africa

Convergence Blended Finance

Mariella Belli

Associate Director, Impact Investments

Habitat for Humanity International

Astrid Manroth

Head of Blended Finance and Strategy, Partnerships

EBRD

Estelito Biacora

Executive Director and Treasurer

Ayala Corporation

Jessica Villanueva

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Regional
Lead for Sustainable Finance

WWF International

Stephanie Emond

VP and Chief Impact Officer

FinDev Canada

Joan Larrea

Chief Executive Officer

Convergence Blended Finance

Jacqueline Higgins

Head, North America & Senior Vice President, Public Sector Solutions

Swiss Re

Tim Streeter

Global Head of Investor Relations

Private Infrastructure Development Group

Ayesha Bery

Associate Director

Convergence Blended Finance

Andrew Apampa

Associate Director

Convergence Blended Financ

Senior Advisor - Impact & Development Finance

Blue Alliance

John Morton

Executive Managing Director, Nature Finance and Investment

WWF

Stephanie Lindemann-Kohrs

Director / Global Head Equity and Funds

KfW Development Bank

Luke Franson

Director of Fund Management & FX/Treasury

Finance in Motion

Matt Davis

Co-CEO and Managing Partner

Renew Capital

Ina Hoxha

Chief Investment Officer & Deputy CEO

Climate Bonds Initiative

Stefanie Fairholme

Chief Investment Officer

Capital Solutions

Christian Brändli

Head Private Sector Development

SECO

Christine Looney

Deputy Director

Ford Foundation

Mimi Alemayehou

Senior Advisor, Managing Director

Three Cairns Group, Semai Ventures

Basil Kandaya

Senior Associate

Convergence Blended Finance

Krishna Malhotra

Acting Associate Director

Convergence Blended Finance

Mei Ling Yeap

 Manager, Asia-Pacific

Convergence Blended Finance

Safia Gulamani

Chief Operating Officer

Convergence Blended Finance

David Munnich

Executive Director for I&P Acceleration and I&P Development

Investisseurs & Partenaires

Preeth Gowdar

Chief Executive Officer

Save the Children Global Ventures

Victoria Chelangat Sabula

Chief Executive Officer

AECF

Sashi Jayatileke

Senior Director

World Climate Foundation

Bernadette Blom

Founding Partner

Fount.EU

Bob Assenberg

Founding Partner

Fount.EU

Jake Cusack

Managing Partner

CrossBoundary

Chintan Panchal

Founder and Managing Partner

RCPK Rastegar Panchal

Susanna Gable

Deputy Director, Development Policy & Finance

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Mitch Reznick

Group Head of Fixed Income - London & Global Head of Sustainable Fixed Income

Federated Hermes Ltd

Melissa Weigel

Managing Director, Impact Finance & Markets 

The Nature Conservancy

Meaghan McGrath

Global Head, Partnerships

International Finance Corporation

Augusto Hidalgo

Founder and Global Insurance Strategist

Invulnet

Noëmie Rosala Rivera

Director of Capital Solutions

Lendable

David Creighton

Chairman, Board of Directors

Convergence Blended Finance

Elee Muslin

Principal Officer

IDB Invest

Karén Vardanyan

Chief Financial Officer

UNCDF

Lisa Sundberg

Policy Advisor, Private Capital Mobilization

Sida

Arin Dutta

 Senior Program Officer, Development Policy and Finance (Asia) 

Gates Foundation

Alexia Latortue

Special Advisor

TDB Group

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