Designing Better Green Finance: Insights for the Next Generation of Sustainable Investment

Federica Zeni is an Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the World Bank's Development Research Group. Her research interests include corporate finance, sustainable finance, and financial economics. Prior to joining the Bank she worked as a researcher at the Bank of Italy and as a quantitative analyst at British Petroleum. She holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Mathematical Engineering from University of Rome Tor Vergata and Politecnico di Milano in Italy, a M.A. in Quantitative Finance from University Pierre et Marie Curie in France, and a Ph.D. in Finance from Imperial College London. 

Olivier Mahul is the Global Manager for Climate Finance Mobilization. Prior to his current role, he was Practice Manager of the Crisis and Disaster Risk Finance Unit, where he led the Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program, a joint program between the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and supported by donor partners. Since joining the World Bank in 2003, Olivier has been involved in developing disaster risk financing and insurance solutions in more than 40 countries including Colombia, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongolia, India, Mexico, Philippines, etc. Olivier holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics and post-doctorates from Wharton Business School and University of California at Berkeley

Deon Filmer is Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He has previously served as Acting Research Manager in the Research Group, Co-Director of the World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, and Lead Economist in the Human Development department of the Africa Region of the World Bank. He works on issues of human capital and skills, service delivery, and the impact of policies and programs to improve human development outcomes—with research spanning the areas of education, health, social protection, and poverty and inequality. He has published widely in refereed journals, including studies of the impact of demand-side programs on schooling and learning; the roles of poverty, gender, orphanhood, and disability in explaining education inequalities; and the determinants of effective service delivery.