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The Humanitarian Finance Forum is a global network of professionals working in humanitarian finance. We provide a platform for collaboration, learning, and advocacy. Contact us today to learn more about our work and how you can get involved.

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Bringing together experts with AidEx participants to share public and private perspectives around the new and rapidly developing field of innovative finance, and to explore addressing funding needs for projects in LIC/FCSA settings.

AidEx 2023 - Innovative Finance Side Event

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Public service provision in fragile states often involve a complex network of external development agencies, NGOs, and domestic institutions. This session explore building effective partnerships in these high-risk areas.

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Social Outcomes Conference 2023

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Cristina Stefan is the Lead Risk Finance Adviser at the Centre for Disaster Protection (CDP). She is a finance, risk and actuarial expert with over 12 years experience in various global insurance and consulting institutions across Europe and the U.S. Cristina has experience in the design of alternative risk transfer products and building risk management solutions aimed at closing the financial gap for disaster response. She has been involved in the World Bank-led financial response to the 10th Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. She has experience in projects such as PEF 2.0 transactions, development loan operations in emerging markets, disaster risk finance products and derivatives.

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Cristina Stefan Centre for Disaster Protection

Emma Karhan is the Head of Public Private Partnerships for Aon UK. She joined Aon 4 years ago after working for Guy Carpenter, MMC, for over 15 years. Emma has worked across both reinsurance and retrocession in her career and has had great success in building practices in areas of Terrorism Reinsurance, specialising in the private-public partnerships. She is focused now on how to create impact and build solutions to support climate change and the humanitarian agenda. Emma is leading the climate change approach for Aon Re UK and is working with the Red Cross on the Innovative Humanitarian Finance Roundtable.

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Emma Karhan

The Forum sits down with Cristina Stefan and Emma Karhan to discuss a groundbreaking approach to utilising

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