🌍 Join Sony Kapoor and Vicky Pryce for an interactive 'Meet the Leaders' #webinar on Climate Change 🌱 📅 Mon 8th Sept | 🕕 6:00pm BST 💬 Be part of the dialogue - submit your own questions! 🔗 Register now: radixbigtent.org.uk/events/climate… #ClimateChange

I will soon join Vicky Pryce in her capacity as Chair of the Fellows network at Radix Big Tent - RBT to discuss reconciling #ClimateAction with #Growth despite #Geopolitics Do tune in radixbigtent.org.uk/events/climate… & also find pods with Julia Hobsbawm Duncan Hames John Kay Alex Andreou

Fantastic episode! Imho best ep of hidden forces. So good to hear such a broad conversation presented within a comprehensive economic framework (grabbing the papers but given Sony Kapoor work with funds, he understands how we got here with savings) with the creds to boot. 🙏

#PeakHappiness - when your 2,5 & 8 year olds plan and execute a #BirthdaySurprise for you & having sneaked out of bed, walk back in singing with a cake and card they made for you all without you having any inkling of what they had been up to!!! #WorldsLuckiestDad #BonWeekend ❤️

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Winter has come ... and the fireplace is crackling & being the scientifically literate person that I am ... we have put salts of Sodium, Potassium, Lithium, Strontium, Copper, Calcium, Barium and Boron in the flames to make this gorgeous #RainbowFlame #NordicLife #ScienceAsArt

Yesterday, the World Benchmarking Alliance which I chair, released its eye-opening, thorough and detailed data and analysis of the impact and performance of the world's top 2,000 companies, It is also my #MustRead of the year so far linkedin.com/pulse/eye-open…

So proud of my 8-year old son to have done a long cross-country ski trip with me after a full day at school without complaining ... too much! Soon, the father will be left behind in the powder as the prodigal son powers ahead!!! #winterwonderland #Oslo #Norway #NordicLife

Delighted that after 16 years of advocating for it and advising both sides, the #EUIndiaFTA has finally been concluded! BIG The EU and India will eliminate tariffs on over 90% of goods traded between the two after completing "the mother of all deals" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Morning after the flood We've a fascinating podcast today with the brilliant Sony Kapoor ...this is a little gem on the crazy concentration of global capital in the US and what happens when/if money leaves the US and goes back home. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/the…

Early Feb 2025 I said #TrumpAdministration's excesses were catalysing an overdue #GreatGlobalRebalancing of #Capital #Trade #Governance #Innovation #Security away form #US towards RoW, particularly #EmergingMarkets & this was Good News! 1-year-on, it's Accelerating - Listen Now

As always, an insightful and comprehensive Euractiv newsletter by Eddy Wax ✍️ with a quote from me euractiv.com/news/rapporteu… "The most likely outcome (of the US-India deal) was that bilateral trade would revert to roughly the levels before Trump’s trade war, launched last April."

Global capital is quietly breaking up with the US. Not because of “anti-American bias,” but because concentration risk, politics, and fading tailwinds make it unavoidable. #Trump’s policies just hit fast-forward. My Bloomberg Weekend Essay ⬇️ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The #BullCase for #EmergingMarkets - Hidden Forces with Demetri Kofinas The "American Exceptionalism" trade has hit a wall. 🇺🇸🛑 For 15 years, the math was simple: Buy the U.S. and win. But in 2026, the valuation gap between the U.S. and EMs has become a fundamental risk to your

Folks, last year I took over as Chair of the World Benchmarking Alliance World Benchmarking Alliance & I am delighted with how we have navigated this tricky year. We are looking for brilliant & dedicated folks to add capacity to the Supervisory Board. Details here linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Everyone says guarantees can “unlock trillions” for climate finance. But can they really? 🧵 In a new paper, Stijn Claessens and I look at what guarantees can actually do for climate finance in developing economies. findevlab.org/wp-content/upl…

This matters because climate investment is unusually sensitive to financing costs. In many EMDEs, viable projects become unviable simply because capital is too expensive, tenors are too short, or currency risk is too high. findevlab.org/wp-content/upl…

The problem is not just that we use too few guarantees. It is that we often expect too much from poorly designed ones. If we want climate finance at scale, we need less magical thinking and more system-building. That is the core argument of the paper. findevlab.org/wp-content/upl…

Would value reactions from people working on: climate finance, MDB reform, blended finance, guarantees, EMDE investing, and development policy. findevlab.org/wp-content/upl…

My July 14, 2105 Interview on Bloomberg Surveillance by host Manus Cranny on the #IranNuclearDeal that was being negotiated by #Obama where I celebrated it as a "Painful Labour of Love" saying that it would be good for security, diplomacy & economy! bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…