David Schaub-Jones

David Schaub‑Jones has worked for over twenty‑five years across public policy, innovative finance, green infrastructure and climate resilience. He brings a systems perspective to adaptation and resilience finance, drawing on years spent with project implementers to translate their needs into financial structures that investors can confidently use.
 

He is particularly adept at pulling together different sectors and has worked with public, private and multilateral institutions on practical solutions, especially in water and conservation finance.

As director of a boutique consultancy, he has recently supported the Resilient Water Accelerator on models for bringing repayable finance into watershed investments, helped UNICEF explore resilience and climate finance in Sri Lanka, Zambia and Nigeria, and supported South Africa’s National Treasury to mainstream innovative approaches to public financial management. He also developed a “Climate Action Masterclass” for C40 in Africa.

David has led global engagement on water resilience at The Nature Conservancy, represented the Water Finance Coalition at the Financing in Common summit, and served on the advisory board of Africa Utility Week. For several years he has been a guest lecturer at University College London.  Earlier in his career, he worked with the World Bank, Public Private Infrastructure Advisor Facility, Agence Française de Développement and the UK’s DFID on applying blended finance and PPP models to sustainable infrastructure.

Trained in engineering and economics, David works easily across disciplines and time zones and has built and led diverse teams in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has lived in South Africa, Vietnam, Colombia, the US, France and Belgium, and has family roots in the UK.