Sara Jane Ahmed, Managing Director and V20 Finance Advisor, CVF-V20

Sara Jane Ahmed is one of the world’s most influential voices in climate finance for vulnerable nations. As Managing Director and Finance Advisor to the V20 group of Finance Ministers representing 74 climate vulnerable countries, she developed the Climate Prosperity Plan framework to help nations move beyond aid dependency and into investment-led climate resilience. Founder of the Financial Futures Center and a recipient of the Climate Breakthrough Award, she has spent her career proving that green development is both an environmental necessity and an economic opportunity for the Global South.