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Timothy Turner, Former AfDB Group Chief Risk Officer

After 25 years with the African Development Bank and the Trade and Development Bank, including on innovations that optimize balance sheets and leverage scare resources, I am looking forward to continuing similarly to support progress in the least developed countries with the UNCDF.”

Tim Turner is currently working for the Trade and Development Bank of Eastern and Southern Africa (TDB) as senior advisor to the President with a focus on financial innovation.

Tim recently retired as the chief risk officer (CRO) for the African Development Bank Group (AfDB). Under his leadership, the AfDB undertook a number of innovative credit risk transfer transactions, such as the first synthetic securitization of a development loan portfolio, to generate additional lending headroom for the Bank and to create new pathways for institutional investment in Africa. Before his appointment as CRO in 2013, Tim was the director of the AfDB’s private sector banking team.

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Mahesh Kotecha, President, Structured Credit International Corp. (SCIC)

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Raj Kumar, CEO, Devex

Raj is the founding president & editor-in-chief of Devex, the media platform for the global development community. Devex is committed to ensuring that global development efforts do more good for more people.

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Philippe Le Houérou, Former CEO of IFC

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Carol Pepper, Founder & CEO, Pepper International

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Timothy Turner, Former AfDB Group Chief Risk Officer

Tim Turner is currently working for the Trade and Development Bank of Eastern and Southern Africa (TDB) as senior advisor to the President with a focus on financial innovation.

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Staci Warden, Executive Director, Global Market Development, Milken Institute

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Kanini Mutooni, Managing Director, Draper Richards Caplan Foundation

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Officio Members

Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary, UNCDF

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Xavier Michon, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNCDF

With over 2 decades of experience in the UN, brings in-depth knowledge of programme and operations at HQ and in the field.

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