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SUMMARY:The road to COP32: setting the African agenda for climate action
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (LS
 E campus\, venue tbc to ticketholders)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 23 September 2026 6pm - 7.30pmSpeakersAmal-Lee AminO
 riana BandieraAuguste KouaméDr Vera SongweChairLord SternAs the world loo
 ks ahead to COP32 in Addis Ababa\, Africa has a unique opportunity to shap
 e the direction of global climate negotiations. At a pivotal moment for in
 ternational climate policy\, the continent is setting the agenda on how cl
 imate action can support sustainable and resilient economic development. T
 his public event will bring together influential voices from across policy
 \, finance and academia to explore the next chapter of Africa's climate ag
 enda.While international negotiations have long focused on developing fram
 eworks and estimating the scale of climate finance required\, many countri
 es face a significant gap between commitments and the investment needed to
  deliver resilient\, low-carbon growth. What would a more pragmatic agenda
  look like – one that moves beyond financing targets and towards mobilis
 ing capital and delivering practical solutions to closing the gap between 
 ambition and implementation? The discussion will explore how African leade
 rship can help shape a more effective approach to climate action that reco
 gnises the continent not only as highly vulnerable to climate change\, but
  also as a source of solutions\, innovation and economic opportunity.Meet 
 our speakers and chairAmal-Lee Amin leads climate finance\, gender and div
 ersity investing\, and technical assistance teams at British International
  Investment. She previously advised the UK COP26 Presidency and serves on 
 the High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance and the OECD Advisory Group
  on Climate and Economic Resilience. Formerly Chief of Climate Change at t
 he Inter-American Development Bank\, she also spent a decade in UK governm
 ent working on sustainable energy and climate change policy.Oriana Bandier
 a is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics at LSE and Director of ST
 ICERD. Her research focuses on labour economics\, development economics an
 d the economics of organisations. She is a member of IZA\, CEPR\, BREAD\, 
 EUDN and J-PAL Europe\, and her work has been published in leading journal
 s including the American Economic Review\, Econometrica and the Quarterly 
 Journal of Economics. She received the IZA Young Labor Economist Prize in 
 2007 and the Carlo Alberto Medal in 2011.Auguste Tano Kouamé held a numbe
 r of senior leadership positions at the World Bank\, including overseeing 
 independent evaluations of economic management\, country programmes\, huma
 n development and corporate performance. He previously served as Practice 
 Manager for Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management in the Middle East and No
 rth Africa\, Latin America and the Caribbean\, and held senior economist r
 oles across the institution. From 2005 to 2008\, he was Assistant to the W
 orld Bank President.Vera Songwe is Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainabili
 ty Facility and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. An economist and
  former UN Under-Secretary-General\, she served as Executive Secretary of 
 the UN Economic Commission for Africa from 2017 to 2022. Previously\, she 
 held senior roles at the World Bank and IFC\, focusing on fiscal policy\, 
 governance\, financial markets and development. She has also contributed t
 o major international initiatives on climate finance and MDB reform.Nichol
 as Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE\, Chair 
 of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\,
  Chair of the Global School of Sustainability\, and Head of the India Obse
 rvatory. He served as Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruct
 ion and Development (1994-1999) and the World Bank (2000-2003)\, was Presi
 dent of the British Academy (2013-2017)\, and is a Fellow of the Royal Soc
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