Vera Songwe

Name: Paris Peace Forum 2025
Start: 2025-10-29T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-30T18:00:00+01:00

Liquidity and Sustainability Facility

Chair of the Board

Description

Dr Vera Songwe is Chair and Founder of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility. She is a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution with Global Economy and Development and the Africa Growth Initiative. Dr Songwe is a global climate champion. She is the Co-Chair of the Independent High Level Expert Panel on Climate Finance, where she has supported the government of the UK and Egypt for COP27 and also for the Egypt and the UAE under COP28 working with Lord Nick Stern. Under these COP presidencies they authored the Songwe- Stern report on Climate finance as well the report on Accelerating implementation of Climate Finance. She co-chaired the Task Force Clima Independent Group of Experts on Climate Finance for the Brazilian G20. She also co-authored the report “ Financing nature: a Transformative agenda “ launched at COP28.