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Speaker

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

Jonathan First

Senior Advisor

Jonathan First is a Senior Advisor at Climate Policy Initiative with over 18 years’ investment banking experience across Toronto, London and Johannesburg, and nine years in development finance. Formerly at Development Bank of Southern Africa, he structured blended finance for major infrastructure projects and helped establish South Africa’s GCF-backed Climate Finance Facility. He chairs the Green Outcomes Fund and advises global climate finance initiatives.

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