Gregor Paterson-Jones

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Gregor Paterson-Jones is an international expert in Clean Energy and Development Finance. He consults to the EIB, The World Bank, The European Commission, and a number of Middle Easter State Institutions. He was an Investment Committee member for the European Union's European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) run in cooperation with the EIB. He also sits on the Mergence Infrastructure Fund IC in South Africa and was an expert panel member to the International Solar Alliance in India. He is also currently Expert advisor on blended finance for the UN Capital Development Fund. UNCDF focuses on Africa and the poorest countries of Asia, and for lending and guarantee programmes for the UNDP. Gregor was previously Managing Director of the UK Green Investment Bank which has successfully concluded over 80 individual investments in Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency in the UK and has a funding partnership between DECC and the GIB for funding Clean Energy in Emerging Markets including India and Africa, the UK Climate Investment platform. Prior to this, he was CEO of SW Securities, a clean energy finance firm investing in Renewable Energy projects and Energy Access projects in emerging markets internationally, and responsible for the world's first listed Carbon project Fund in 2005 in South Africa.