Project Co-Chairs

Shamshad Akhtar

(2020-2025)

Former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and Finance Minister of Pakistan

(2020 – 2025)

Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center

Ulrich Volz

(2020-2026)

Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London

(2020 – 2023)

Professor Emeritus at IDS, University of Sussex and Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University; former Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Chile

Jörg Haas

(2020 – 2026)

Head of the Globalisation and Transformation Division at the Heinrich Böll Foundation

(2021 – 2021)

Chief Economist and Head of Research at LBBW Bank and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, University of London.

(2022 – 2025)

Senior Advisor on South-South Cooperation and Development Finance at South Centre, Former United Nations Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights

María Fernanda Espinosa

(2022 – 2026)

President of Cities Alliance and CEO of Global Women Leaders, GWLvoices; Former President of the UN General Assembly and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Defense of Ecuador

(2022 – 2023)

Senior Economist at Financial Sector Deepening Kenya

(2024 – 2025)

Former Governor of the Central Bakn of Kenya and member of the United Nations Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs

(2024 – 2026)

Minister of Minerals and Energy of Botswana, Former Special Advisor to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions