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David Kennedy
Speaker Profile
David Kennedy was appointed as the UK Department for International Development’s first Director General for Economic Development in 2014. He has worked on development finance, strategy and investment at the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he was most recently Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change, an independent advisory body to the UK Government and Devolved Administrations. He has a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.