Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee is a senior policy fellow and Director for Sustainable Development Finance at the Center for Global Development. Her work at CGD focuses on the role and performance of multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, mobilizing private development finance, blended finance, sovereign debt restructuring architecture, public-private infrastructure finance, and gender lens investing. Previously, she served as the deputy chief executive officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as the CEO of the Multilateral Investment Fund (now the IDB Lab) at the Inter-American Development Bank, and before that as a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department.

Latest Articles

Opinion: Country-owned strategies are essential for global progress

Opinion: Country-owned strategies are essential for global progress

over 2 years ago // Development finance

It may come as a surprise that country-owned, comprehensive strategies for low-carbon, climate-resilient development paths do not currently exist.

Opinion: We had high hopes for private finance and the SDGs. Was our optimism unfounded?

Opinion: We had high hopes for private finance and the SDGs. Was our optimism unfounded?

almost 8 years ago // Sustainable Development Goals

Nancy Lee of the Center for Global Development outlines the fundamental shifts that need to happen in order to turn billions of private dollars into the trillions needed to meet the SDGs.