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Samantha Attridge
Senior Fellow
Center for Global Development
Private Sector & Development author
Samantha Attridge is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development specialising in the mobilization of private capital for sustainable development. Her expertise spans blended finance, MDBs, DFIs and NDBs, advising donors and institutions on unlocking private investment. She chairs the Finance in Common Global Research Network on private capital mobisation and has served as an expert witness to the UK Parliament. Previously, she founded ODI Global’s Centre for Private Finance in Development and led Financing for Development policy, research and advocacy at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She is a UK Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) qualified with PwC and she holds a Master’s in Development Economics from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank founded in 2001 that works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through independent, evidence-based economic research. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with CGD Europe based in London, it translates rigorous analysis into practical policy solutions for the world’s top decision-makers. Its work spans sustainable development finance, global health, climate and energy, education, gender equality, migration, and market shaping.