Policy-Driven Climate and Development Finance

Mahmoud Mohieldin is UN Special Envoy on Financing Sustainable Development. He is a Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University; nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution; visiting senior research scholar at Columbia Business School; fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science; the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Business of Economic Growth; and member in the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is currently leading a group of prominent experts appointed by the United Nations Secretary General to promote solutions for resolving the debt crisis. Mohieldin was the first Minister of Investment of Egypt (2004-2010) and served as Senior Vice President of the World Bank Group, Executive Director at the IMF, and was the UN Climate Change High Level Champion for COP27.