GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2021
Virtual event
18 - 19 October 2021
Join us for the 4th annual GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference (GPIC). A timely forerunner to COP26, GPIC 2021 will convene global leaders, executives, experts and thought leaders from business, governments, financial institutions, and technology companies to accelerate private sector-driven climate action in developing countries.
As the world struggles to deal with the twin crises of global heating and COVID-19, the need to harness finance flows for positive change has never been greater. The world’s largest dedicated climate finance fund, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), is ideally placed to catalyse the entrepreneurial energies of the business world to explore how we can expand private green finance.
GPIC 2021 highlights
Speakers:
- H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President, Republic of Costa Rica
- H.E. Ali Bongo Ondimba, President, Gabonese Republic
- Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen
- Joan M. Larrea, CEO, Convergence
- Selwin Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action, United Nations
Moderator: Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director, GCF
Speakers:
- Mitch Carpen, Head of Risk Management and Compliance, GCF
- Frédéric Wils, Senior Project Development Manager, GIZ
- Rafael Lorenzo Piñón, Director Innovative Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Nari Been, Head of EBRD Star Venture Programme, EBRD
- Emi Komai, Executive Director, Komaihaltec Inc.
Moderator: Andrey Chicherin, Head of Innovation, Technology Transfer and Co-Funding Platforms, GCF
Speakers:
- Kevin Horsburgh, Climate Science Lead, GCF
- Carlos Sanchez, Executive Director, CCRI
- Anthony Nyong, Regional Director for Africa, GCA
- Lisa Genasci,Founder and CEO, ADM Capital Foundation
- Manav Bansal,CEO, Neev Fund
Moderator: Ayaka Fujiwara, Climate Investment Specialist, GCF
Speakers:
- Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen
Moderator:
- Joanne Brinkman, Deputy General Counsel, GCF
- Lilian Macharia, Head of Portfolio Management, GCF
Speakers:
- Anita George, Executive Vice-President, Strategic Partnerships – Growth Markets, CDPQ
- Dante Mossi, Executive President, CABEI
- Hong Paterson, CFO and Director of Support Services, GCF
- Rochus Mommartz, Chief Executive Officer, responsAbility
- Victoria Miles, Managing Partner, Delphos
Moderator: Henry Gonzalez, Director of Private Sector Facility, GCF
Speakers:
- Leo Park, Financial Institutions Manager, GCF
- Luanne Sieh, Senior Managing Director, Head of Group Sustainability, CIMB
- Pa Ousman Jarju, Director of Country Programming, GCF
- Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI
- Jean Boissinot, Head of Secretariat, NGFS
- Paul Bodnar, Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock
Moderator: Lamia Merzouki, Deputy General Manager, Casablanca Finance City
Speakers:
- Kavita Sinha, Deputy Director, Division of Mitigation and Adaptation, GCF
- Geoff Sinclair, Managing Director, Camco
- Asad Mahmood, CEO and Managing Partner, SIMA
- UnaMay Gordon, Principal Director, Climate Change Division in Jamaica’s Ministry of Housing Urban Renewal Environment & Climate Change
- Lovakanto Ravelomanana, Director of the National Office on Climate Change, Carbon and REDD+, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) of Madagascar
- Diann Black-Layne, Chair and Lead Negotiator, AOSIS
Moderator: Rajeev Mahajan, Manager (Head) – Project Finance, GCF
Speakers:
- Javier Manzanares, Deputy Executive Director, GCF
- H.E. Erika Mouynes, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Panama
- Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General, UNWTO