Dr Vera Songwe

Vera Songwe is Founder and Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, launched at COP26 to improve liquidity in African sovereign debt markets. She served as UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (2017 to 2022), the first woman to lead the institution, and co-chairs the Independent High-Level Expert Panel on Climate Finance alongside Lord Nicholas Stern.

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