14 January 2025

OECD blended finance conference to tackle barriers to capital mobilisation

BlackRock, Amundi and BNP Paribas have been named among the speakers at a conference on how to mobilise capital for sustainable development in emerging markets.

The two-day event, Mobilising Private Finance Towards 2030 and Beyond, on 4 and 5 February in Paris, is a partnership between the OECD and Environmental Finance.

Event agenda

It aims to discuss the subject of why private capital is not flowing at scale to sustainable development opportunities in emerging markets. It will ask what are the barriers to capital flows, and what can be done stimulate them, with a particular focus on blended finance solutions, which mix public and private finance.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Matt Kaczmarek, head of private debt market strategy and sustainable investing at BlackRock;
  • Constance Chalchat, global chief sustainability officer at BNP Paribas CIB;
  • Steve Waygood, chief sustainable finance officer at Aviva Investors;
  • Leticia Ferreras Astorqui, director of development finance and impact credit at Allianz Global Investors;
  • Moody's Ratings's Rahul Ghosh and Matt Robinson;
  • Peter Kanning, global head of sustainable finance strategy and implementation at HSBC;
  • Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, a managing director at Legal & General;
  • Alessandra Nibbio Bonnet, head of blended finance at BlueOrchard;
  • Susanna Gable, Deputy Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation;
  • Arsalan Mahtafar, head of development finance institution at JP Morgan; and
  • Eva Granados Galiano, Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation.

The community of development finance institutions and development banks will also be well represented, with speakers from organisations including World Bank, FMO, IADB and British International Investment.

The event will also feature numerous senior speakers from the OECD, including Mary-Beth Goodman, Deputy-Secretary General.

Paul Horrocks, head of private finance for sustainable development at OECD, who will be Master of Ceremonies for the conference, said: "Bringing the donor community and private sector together on solving the mobilisation issue is much needed. The upcoming CoP-PF4SD Conference will be having discussions that lead from ambition to action towards 2030 and beyond."

CoP-PF4SD is the OECD Development Assistance Committee Community of Practice on Private Finance for Sustainable Development.

At the conference, the OECD will launch a report called: Unlocking local currency financing in emerging markets and developing economies:
What role can donors, development finance institutes and multilateral development banks play?

To request an invitation to attend the event, please email events@fieldgibsonmedia.com