Ms. Sinha serves as the Executive Secretary of the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), a hybrid and Development Finance Fund at the UN.
Ms. Sinha is a globally experienced investment and development banker with a 30-year track record associated with raising and managing institutional public and private development capital. She served as CEO of FFD Financing for Development Sàrl, a specialist development finance firm in Geneva focused on financing the UN SDGs. Ms. Sinha was a pioneering Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum leading the Financing for Development Initiative in partnership with the UN FFD Office and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Ms. Sinha led a team of Fellows at the YES Global Institute, a practicing private sector think-tank for socio-economic development in New Delhi, building the impact investment ecosystem in India. She also served in senior resource mobilization roles at the African Development Bank including managing its ADF-13—replenishment, raising US$ 7.3 billion from 27 donor countries. Previously, she was an investment banker at HSBC, Rabobank, Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan in London, Hong Kong, Mumbai and New York.
Ms. Sinha graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Executive Education programme in Public Financial Management. She also holds a Masters in Global Leadership from the World Economic Forum and Masters in Public and Private Management (MPPM)/MBA from the Yale School of Management (SOM). Ms. Sinha graduated with Honors from Dartmouth College with Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Science.
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2022 |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary of UNCDF, at the OPEC Fund—SEforALL event on Finance for Clean Cooking |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary of UNCDF, at the launch of the Index Insurance Best Practices Guidelines for Insurance Regulators and Practitioners in the Pacific Island Countries |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary of UNCDF, at the Pacific Island Fintech Innovation Challenge |
Statement of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary of UNCDF, at the Annual Session of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board 2022 |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary of UNCDF, at the Stockholm +50 |
Remarks of UNCDF Executive Secretary Preeti Sinha at the "Accelerating Action for Food Security and Resilience" Side Event-2022 Spring Meetings of the WBG/IMF |
Keynote Remarks of UNCDF Executive Secretary Preeti Sinha at the Yale Economic Development Symposium |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary of UNCDF, at the 1st Regular Session of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board 2022 |
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2021 |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary of UNCDF, at the Opening of the Investment Solutions Conference, on the Sidelines of the UN General Assembly |
Keynote Remarks of Preeti Sinha, UNCDF Executive Secretary, at the Local2030 Coalition Event at the HLPF 2021 |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, UNCDF Executive Secretary, at the IDE4SDGs Publication Launch Event |
Remarks of Preeti Sinha, UNCDF Executive Secretary, at the Generation Equality Forum: Economic Justice and Rights Action Coalition Session at the Paris Forum |
Statement of Preeti Sinha, UNCDF Executive Secretary, at the Annual Session 2021 of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board |
Keynote Remarks of Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary, at the Increasing Domestic Public Resources and Private Financing for Women’s Economic Empowerment |
Keynote Remarks of Preeti Sinha, UNCDF Executive Secretary, at the Launch of the Generation Equality Forum-Economic Justice and Rights Action Coalition Dialogue Session |
Keynote Remarks of Preeti Sinha, UNCDF Executive Secretary, at the Africa Regional Review Side Event on the Impacts of COVID-19 on SMEs in LDCs |
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