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The Deitz Family Initiative on Environment and Global Affairs will host a conversation with Leslie Maasdorp on the risks, opportunities, and innovations associated with multilateral climate finance.

Maasdorp is the CEO of British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution. He was previously vice-president and chief financial officer of the New Development Bank, based in Shanghai, for nine years. Over the past 25 years, Maasdorp has held senior leadership positions at global financial institutions, including serving as international advisor to Goldman Sachs, vice chairman of Barclays Capital, and president of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in South Africa. In the early years of South Africa’s democratic era, he held key roles in the government of South Africa, as special advisor to the minister of labour and deputy director-general responsible for restructuring of state-owned enterprises.

This event is open to the Yale community.