Chris Humphrey

Chris Humphrey

Chris Humphrey is a senior research associate at the ODI global affairs think tank and senior scientist at ETH Zurich NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation.

Latest Articles

Opinion: How callable capital can be used to grow MDB lending capacity

Opinion: How callable capital can be used to grow MDB lending capacity

over 1 year ago // Finance

The callable capital of the World Bank and other multilateral development banks is the ultimate unknown quantity — but it shouldn’t be.

Opinion: Multilateral banks have $750B in reserve financial capacity. Now is the time to use it.

Opinion: Multilateral banks have $750B in reserve financial capacity. Now is the time to use it.

over 5 years ago // Development finance

There is no point in development finance institutions having spare capacity in this global emergency, according to Chris Humphrey, research associate at the Overseas Development Institute. So what is the holdup?