Mphokolo Makara
Mphokolo Makara
Speaker
CEO

SA-H2 Fund Managers (Climate Fund Managers)

South Africa

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Stage 3 - Uxolo Development Finance

Keynote Panel: Global Leadership Dialogue - Financing the Future in an Age of Fracture

Kjell Forsberg
Director Trade, Private Sector & Financial Instruments,
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
Mphokolo Makara
CEO,
SA-H2 Fund Managers (Climate Fund Managers)
Philippe Mills
CEO,
SFIL
Joseph Bergin
Head of Equity Investment,
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Emmanuelle Riedel Drouin
Global Head – Lending Operations,
Proparco
Denesh Srishanker
Group Head, Credit Enhancement Facilities,
Private Infrastructure Development Group ( PIDG )
Moderator
Chris Mitman
Managing Partner,
ACRE Impact Capital

A high-level discussion between an ECA CEO, a corporate CEO, a global head banker, and an MDB/DFI leader on how institutions across the public and private spectrum are adapting to geopolitical fragmentation, supply-chain restructuring, and rising transition and security demands. The panel examines what makes projects bankable in today’s environment - from multi-sourced structures and long-tenor financing to critical minerals, grids, offshore wind, nuclear, and digital infrastructure - offering a clear view of how global leaders plan to deliver strategic projects in a more complex world.

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Mobilising Capital: Institutional Investors, Private Credit & New Frontiers

Mphokolo Makara
CEO,
SA-H2 Fund Managers (Climate Fund Managers)
Stuart Hulks
Insurance and Export Credit Agency Head,
Rand Merchant Bank
Andres Ortiz
Consultant,
Texel
Clement Schwob
Development & Structured Export Finance - Vice-President,
Societe Generale
Moderator
Francisco Mojica
Investment Director,
Acre Impact Capital

Closing the trade and infrastructure finance gap demands new investors, but institutional capital requires credit enhancement. At the same time, private credit is reshaping how assets are financed, distributed, and held. This session examines how insurance wraps, MDB guarantees, structured products, and private credit vehicles are creating investable assets and unlocking new demand.

·       How insurance wraps and credit enhancements are making trade and infrastructure assets investable for pension funds and asset managers

·       How MDB securitisation vehicles use insurance and guarantees to de-risk portfolios and attract new investor classes

·       How private credit funds are using CPRI to enhance returns, secure ratings, and attract institutional co-investors

·       How insurers are underwriting private credit risk differently from traditional bank exposures and the risk dynamics when deals go wrong

·       The broker's evolving role in connecting originators, insurers, and institutional investors in structured distribution

·       Which insured asset classes, geographies, and tenors are generating the strongest investor pull