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Alberto Lemma

Research Fellow

  • International Economic Development Group
Portrait of Alberto Lemma

Alberto specialises in private sector development, specifically in access to finance, business partnership programmes and the interplay between the private sector and climate change adaptation and mitigation. His work on finance focuses on Development Finance Institution impact assessment and the role of DFIs in development, SME finance and access to innovative sources of finance such as crowdfunding or alternative financial mechanisms to SMEs.

Alberto works as a researcher and economist at the London based Overseas Development Institute, specialised in private sector development, specifically in access to finance, business partnership programmes and the interplay between the private sector and climate change adaptation & mitigation. His work in finance is focussed on Development Finance Institution impact assessment and the role of DFIs in development, SME finance and access to innovative sources of finance (such as crowdfunding or alternative financial mechanisms to SMEs). Alberto previously worked in Vietnam and Cambodia as an economic development consultant and holds an MSc in Political Economy of Development from SOAS and a BSc in Geography with Economics from LSE.