The Fourth Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2021) will be held on July 26-27, 2021, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference will be conducted as a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.
The objective of the conference is to strengthen the regional dialogue, information and knowledge exchange in order to support climate-resilient evidence-based decision-making systems, as well as to explore the possibilities to ensure the synergy in climate projects implementation between international finance organizations and the development agencies in Central Asia.
A series of our publications will be dedicated to the speakers and moderators of the upcoming event. And, today, we would like to introduce you to Wei-Jen Leow, a senior financial specialist at the World Bank’s Climate Change Group. He will be a speaker at the CACCC-2021 thematic session dedicated to climate financing.
Wei-Jen Leow is a Senior Financial Specialist at the World Bank’s Climate Change Group where he focuses on public finance and fiscal policy. He currently leads the World Bank’s Long-Term Low-Carbon Planning program and is concurrently piloting the use of the Climate Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (Climate PEFA) framework in countries. He co-founded a program that delivers technical training and assistance in climate change to finance ministry officials, and subsequently developed it into the Finance Ministers Coalition for Climate Action. The Coalition has a membership of 62 finance ministers as of today.
His previous responsibilities for the World Bank Group include serving as a focal point for the Green Climate Fund (2014-2017), managing concessional finance for private sector investments at the IFC (2006-2011), and assessing environmental risk at MIGA (1999-2002). Wei-Jen is also a former Chief Specialist at the Singapore Ministry of Finance (2011-2013), with responsibilities for long-term resilience and mitigation planning, which included carbon tax and clean energy financing. Between 2011-2015, he was a senior adjunct at the Energy Studies Institute of the National University of Singapore.
Stay tuned for further updates to know about other interesting speakers of the CACCC-2021.
