On November 9th, Maria Teresa Zappia, Chief Investment Officer, will be speaking about the lessons learned from Blended Finance at the International Conference on Blended Development Finance and the New Industrial Policy.

Jointly organized by Center for Global DevelopmentCDC Groupand the Centre for Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute Geneva, is expected to launch needed research, generate productive debate, and foster long-term collaboration across the political and professional spectra. The conference will focus on the issues to be tackled to get the private/public financing synergy to succeed will be discussed as well as methods to assess the development impact of the investments, both prospectively and retrospectively.