The SIRI Blended Finance Annual Conference and Roundtable Discussions (focused on specific countries) are SIRI’s signature events. These convenings bring together academics, industry experts from across the financial sector (including institutional investors, multilateral development banks and other development finance institutions, philanthropic organizations, and private investors), standard setters, finance ministers, policymakers and other world leaders from around the globe.
The aim of these convenings is to serve as a platform that fosters conversations, collaborations, renewed commitments, and actions around expanding the global marketplace for blended finance, with the ultimate goal of crowding in more private capital (especially to the Global South) to scale development solutions and effectively address climate change, biodiversity loss, and other grand societal challenges. Besides fostering dialogue and actions, the convenings also provide an opportunity to share the insights of academic research and best practices in blended finance with leaders from business, investment, policy, and academia. The ability to bring together leaders from across the public and private sector, with a global perspective, is a defining strength of SIPA and Columbia University.
These convenings bring together a carefully curated set of leaders from around the world. They are by invitation only and under Chatham House rules. SIRI develops high-level summaries of key insights from each of these events to help inform future plans and actions of each participating organization about the critical bottlenecks and opportunities in developing and scaling up the global marketplace for blended finance to help foster sustainable (economic, environmental, and social) development.