Erik Berglöf — Nature as infrastructure — Treasury seminar/webinar🍋
Friday, 12 April @ 11:00am - 12:15pm NZST — free of charge & open to all
Erik Berglöf, Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), will present the next seminar in the Treasury’s guest lecture series: Nature as infrastructure.
Erik will present findings from the AIIB 2023 Asian Infrastructure Finance Report, analysing how nature affects development, and how development (including in infrastructure) can be done more sustainably to safeguard nature.
With biodiversity declining faster than at any time in human history, nature’s resilience is being severely eroded. Preserving nature and biodiversity is now seen as important as, and closely related to, climate change mitigation and adaptation. There are many opportunities to leverage nature as infrastructure, integrate nature-based solutions into infrastructure development.
Attend in person or online
This will be a hybrid event. It will take place on Friday, 12 April 2024 from 11:00am to 12:15pm NZST, online and in person.
Register here to attend in person at The Treasury, level 3, 1 The Terrace, Wellington; or
About Erik Berglöf
Erik Berglöf sets the vision and strategy for the Economics Department of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and leads the planning, implementation and supervision of its work plan in support of the Bank’s mandate. He is the Bank’s inaugural Chief Economist.
Prior to joining AIIB in September 2020, Erik was Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics, and Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2006 to 2015, where he was part of creating and co-led the Vienna Initiative, a European crisis response team credited with mitigating the impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
Berglöf is an expert in transition economics and institutional transformation through private sector development. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics and an MA in Business and Economics, both from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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