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Dr. Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva leads Climate Investment Funds’ finance function and scaling up mobilization of private capital to finance transformational change towards low-carbon climate-resilient development in developing countries. In her prior roles in the World Bank she focused on providing policy advice and thought leadership on sustainable finance, facilitating long term finance through capital markets and strengthening the role of financial institutions in development finance, as well as managing World Bank’s assets and liabilities. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University, and a doctorate i
Join us for a virtual panel discussion about recent trends in infrastructure development and financing, with a focus on the opportunities and challenges in emerging market economies. Event details.
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Jyoti Bisbey, Climate Finance and PPP Advisor, World Bank
Jyoti Bisbey is a global expert with more than 20 years of experience in leading green infrastructure finance and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing countries. She has worked at the World Bank Group and at the United Nations with developing countries on supporting governments’ public investment pipelines, preparing PPP projects, and financing the decarbonization of infrastructure. Jyoti is an Executive Committee member of the World Association of PPP Units and PPP Professionals (WAPPP), the Sustainable & Innovative Financing Advisory Board member of InfraBlocks Technologies Pte Ltd, and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Infrastructure, Policy, and Development at the Lee Kuan Yew Sch
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Hubert Jenny is and International Freelance Consultant advising companies on ESG and Sustainable Development and consulting on climate resilient and smart infrastructure with various development partners. Hubert has a mixed international experience in the private sector setting-up Public Private Partnerships for the delegation of urban services mostly in Asia. Before retiring, Hubert spent the last 20 years in international development with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Green Climate Fund. Hubert co-authored several knowledge products and lead the drafting of the Water Security Sectoral Guide for the Green Climate Fund. Hubert graduated from France with a Master in Engineering (DESS) and he is a Chartered Professional Engineer in Australia.
This event is organized by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance Graduate Associates.
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John Maynard Keynes composed the General Theory as a response to the Great Crash and Great Depression with all their devastating consequences on the U.S. macroeconomy and financial markets, as well as the rest of the world. The role of expectations that his new theory set out has been widely accepted. The role he attached to “animal spirits” the role of human emotion in human cognition has remained more controversial. To look at the role of emotion in the economy at the times Keynes wrote, Ali Kabiri (University of Buckingham) and collaborators analyzed millions of digitally stored news articles from the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times from the period with algorithms that scan for emotion in narratives to test whether human emotions influenced the economy distinctly from traditional economic fundamentals. They find that shifts