A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
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Rajesh Kedia
Director of Banking and Investments , UK Infrastructure Bank
Rajesh Kedia is a Director in the Banking and Investments and leads on hydrogen and nuclear investments. He has been with the Bank since 1 February 2022. Prior to that he was at HMT where he led the set-up of UKIB’s Financial Framework.
Rajesh has more than 20 years’ experience in private and public sector. He started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and then RBS, where he spent 11 years in debt and equity transactions. For the last ten years, he has spent most of his time at UK Government Investments, where he has worked on number of complex financing challenges and asset management which included privatization of Green Investment Bank and advised BEIS on low carbon project financing dealing with first of kind challenge of new and large technology (e.g. nuclear). He also has an experience as a non-executive director of UK plc. Rajesh is Chartered Accountant
