At a recent institutional investor meeting during the Financing for Development Summit (FfD4) in Seville, Spain, Dr. Hubert Danso, chairman and CEO of Africa Investor (Ai), urged investors to move beyond legacy mandates toward future-fit fiduciary models through collaborative efforts and institutional investor public partnerships.
Danso spotlighted three investment paradigms being piloted across Africa and the Global South that are reshaping investor incentives and accelerating sustainable capital flows into emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). According to Danso, these are green industrial cities; natural capital investing; and GEMs3.0, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled investment ecosystem.
“These multi-stakeholder sandboxes are the system,” said Danso. “Green industrial cities, natural capital investing and GEMs3.0 are not isolated pilots — they are interoperable platforms redefining how we govern, invest and scale long-term regenerative
