Dr Jeremy Gorelick is a development finance practitioner with twenty years of experience in mobilising capital for challenging, complex projects across Africa, Asia, and Latin America., raising over USD 4.2 billion, mostly for climate smart infrastructure. He currently serves as team lead for projects on behalf of bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, all targeted at raising funds for strategic investments into sustainable infrastructure across Africa and Asia. Over the past ten years, he has served as global technical expert on climate and/or urban infrastructure finance lead for multiple organisations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the IFC, USAID, GIZ, AFD, DFID, FCDO, BEIS, and the OECD among others; on all projects, he has been responsible for assisting public sector entities to convert high-level ideas into investible opportunities through the development of both compelling narratives and defensible financial models.
Education: PhD from the University of Cape Town with a focus on financial mobilisation for infrastructure in emerging markets and has lectured at the Johns Hopkins University since 2010 on emerging markets finance