
Participants included both Task Force members and sherpas and experts who had not been involved with the Task Force to date. Anir Chowdhury, Policy Advisor, a2i Program of the Government of Bangladesh, Matthew Davie, Chief Strategy Officer, Kiva, Amandeep Gill, Project Lead, International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative, Marianne Haahr, Director, Green Digital Finance Alliance, Natalie Jabangwe, CEO, Ecocash, Louise James, Managing Director, Accenture Development Partnerships, Judith Karl, Executive Secretary, UNCDF, Peter Lovelock, Director and co-Founder of the Technology Research Project Corporate (TRPC), Matu Mugo, Assistant Director, Bank Supervision, Central Bank of Kenya, Julia Walker, Global Head of Government and Industry Affairs, Sustainable Finance and Risk, Refinitiv, Louise Wilson, Co-founder and joint MD, Abundance and Xiaochen Zhang, President, Fintech4good, Simon Zadek, sherpa to the co-chairs and Head of the Secretariat, Aiaze Mitha, Senior Advisor to the Task Force, and Vera Bersudskaya, Lead Researcher with the Secretariat.
The offsite featured a series of presentations, panel discussions, and working groups that dove deeper into digital finance for SDG opportunities along with the enabling market conditions. Participants were inspired by the potential of digitalisation of finance to empower the ultimate owners of world’s financial resources – the citizens.