Uxolo Indepth

In this episode of Uxolo: In-Depth With, Jessica Brown speaks with Chinua Azubike, CEO of InfraCredit, about how credit enhancement, local currency financing and institutional capital are transforming infrastructure investment across Nigeria.

In this episode of Uxolo: In-Depth With, Jessica Brown speaks with Kim-See Lee, Chief Investment Officer for Public Sector, Financial Institutions and Funds at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), about the institution’s evolving role in global development finance.

Bridging the Perception Gap: How ATIDI Supports Investment Across Africa Ahead of the upcoming Global conference in Prague, Uxolo sat down with Pizarro Lukhanda, Senior Underwriter at ATIDI, to discuss how risk mitigation is helping unlock investment and trade opportunities across Africa.

In this episode of Uxolo: In-Depth With, Jessica Brown speaks with Aliou Maiga, Regional Industry Director, Financial Institutions Group, Africa at IFC (World Bank Group), about one of the most ambitious agricultural transformation platforms currently underway: AgriConnect.  

In this special International Women’s Day edition of Uxolo: In-Depth With, Jessica Brown sits down with Veronika Giusti Keller, Head of Impact, and Alessandra Nibbio, Head of Blended Finance, at BlueOrchard.

Uxolo spoke with Sebastiaan Surie, head of new ventures at Climate Fund Managers to explore how blended finance is driving climate infra investment in emerging markets, from resilient infra to green hydrogen via the combination of public and private capital.

In today’s episode, Dr. Khalid Khalafalla, CEO of the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) and Acting CEO of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), shares his strategic vision for advancing sustainable economic growth across Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries. He discusses how ICIEC and ICD complemen...

In today’s episode, Leslie Maasdorp, CEO of British International Investment (BII), shares his strategic vision for scaling sustainable finance in frontier and emerging markets. He discusses how BII is navigating global funding cuts, recent investments in green infrastructure and digital connectivity, and the institution’s evolving approach to impact and transparency.

Dive into an enlightening conversation with Anshula Kant, Managing Director and CFO of the World Bank Group at the Uxolo Global 2025 conference in Copenhagen as she unpacks the complexities facing global development today. In this exclusive podcast episode, Anshula shares a front-row perspective on the unprecedented challenges emerging economies confront—especially the looming youth employment cri...

In today's episode, Signe Kolby Sørensen, Director of Strategy & Impact at Norfund, discusses investment strategies aligned with impactful development. She highlights Norfund’s approach to blended finance, resilient economies, the recent influential investment in AgDevCo, and navigating the balance between financial returns and development goals.

Uxolo speaks with Bart Raemaekers Head of Syndications & Concessional Financings at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) 'the climate bank of Asia'; delving into the financial toolkit available to the team for mobilising private capital into the projects that need it the most.

Carey Bohjanen, founder of the Rallying Cry Initiative – in partnership with Dutch development banks FMO – and MD of Sustainable Finance Advisory, outlines how she engages top finance and industrial leaders via ecosystem level initiatives to shift business as "unusual" for better outcomes.