An interactive conversation on leadership organized by the Maryam Forum Foundation on 18 January 2023 during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum featuring an expert panel and a leadership panel.

The December 2022 COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Montreal marked a breakthrough for global collaboration at a time when nature's destruction presents profound risks to human societies. There is a major nature finance gap – estimated by researchers to be around USD $700 billion, particularly for countries in the global South, where most of the world's biodiversity is located.

To address the financing and implementation gap, questions included: how can public sector leaders take courageous decisions, and transform economic systems and subsidy policies? How can private sector leaders step up their ambitions to support nature-focused prosperity, and navigate a polycentric world? How can leaders collectively act to appropriately value, protect and restore nature?

Leadership dimensions to address:

• Financial innovation from the private sector

• Responsibility of the North to fund transition and adaptation by the South

• Mutual accountability amongst both industrial and emerging economies

• Effective implementation through PPPs in the context of mutlipolar politics

• Transformation of legacy business models

Speakers:

• Sir Masood Ahmed, President, Center for Global Development, Washington DC

• Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Beijing

• Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability Officer, Mastercard, USA

• HE Rania Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of the Government of Egypt

• HE Sherry Rehman, Federal Minister for Climate Change of the Government of Pakistan

  
  

Leadership panel

Expert panel