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Claude Brown
Claude Brown is part of the firm’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice, with a particular focus on the financing and risk mitigation aspects of environmental and social impact activities.
Claude is very active in the social financing arena, advising Multilateral Development Banks and Supranational organisations on the financing of educational projects in the developing world, as well as assisting NGOs and philanthropic foundations in the structuring and implementation of humanitarian, microfinancing and medical impact activities. He also works with various NGOs and philanthropic foundations to provide innovative financing and credit risk mitigation structures for the funding of their global medical and microfinancing activities.
Claude is recognised as one of the world’s leading legal experts in weather risk management, adaptive finance, and the voluntary carbon markets. He has extensive experience of transactions using products to mitigate the effect of drought on the agricultural economies of Malawi and Ethiopia, as well as transactions to assist in sustainable energy generation in South America and Asia. He regularly advises on adaptive finance products to assist developing economies generate resilience in the efforts to address climate change and the effects of natural catastrophes in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. He has worked on credit risk mitigants for Multilateral Development Banks to free up their balance sheets in order to provide more financing within LDCs and LMICs, as well as assisting commercial banks in developing sustainable finance strategies and products.
Claude’s education includes studies at Cambridge University, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the College of Law.
Sessions
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Investor perspective - What would it take to fund humanitarian solutions?22-Oct-2025Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
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