Finance for the 2030 Goals

Duration:
03/06–05/06/2024

Teaching format:
Classroom

Course objective:
Our world is facing an unprecedented cascade of social, economic and environmental crises. International development finance will play a central role in making the sustainable investments needed in the coming decades.  
This three-day course explores how the development finance landscape is evolving to face these challenges and what more needs to be done. The focus is on current debates about development finance institutions, actors and techniques and what they mean for practitioners.

Key topics:

• Defining global investment "needs" and the role of development finance
• The politics of financing global development and climate targets
• The evolving role of multilateral banks, including the World Bank
• The growing importance of China as a global development financier
• Climate-focused financing platforms such as the Green Climate Fund

Participants:

• development practitioners needing to understand how their efforts fit into the broader international context
• civil society stakeholders seeking to influence policy decisions on a national and international level
• private sector actors aiming to leverage private investment toward development impact.

Please note: The course will have a strong finance component, including discussions of specific financial instruments, investment platforms, and financial performance of DFIs. As such, a solid grounding in finance concepts and practices is highly recommended for all participants.

ECTS points: 
2

Examination:
A written assignment will be distributed during the course, and due two weeks after the course completion (20/06/2024)

Course fee:
CHF 570

Lecturers:

• Dr. Chris Humphrey, senior scientist at ETH NADEL, specialising in development finance and multilateral banks
  
• Dr. Bjarne Steffen, Professor of Climate Finance and Policy at ETH Zurich and a former project manager at the World Economic Forum
• Stefan Flückiger, former Swiss Deputy State Secretary for International Finance, G20 Finance Deputy and Permanent Representative (Ambassador) to the OECD
• Henrique Martins de Araujo, development and climatefinance expert at UNEP FI and former investment officer with several multilateral development banks and responsAbility.
• Smita Nakhooda, Head of Impact and ESG at Thomas Lloyd Group and former SDG focal point at the Asian Development Bank.
• Arend Kulenkampff, Director of the Sustainability-Linked Sovereign Debt Hub at Nature Finance and former VP for Sovereign Advisory at Citibank

Registration starts 30 October 2023.