HIGH LEVEL PANEL

Rachel Turner

Independent Development Finance Expert

Rachel Turner CBE is a senior development finance and public policy professional with a deep understanding of the international financial system and capital markets, combined with practical developing country delivery experience. She has experience in a wide range of strategic leadership and financial stewardship at the international board level. She also has experience in delivery roles across financial, human development and humanitarian delivery in different developing-country contexts, including the most fragile. Rachel is currently independent after having retired in August 2023 from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) where she led engagement with the World Bank, Regional Development Banks, IMF, debt, green capital markets and international taxation and worked to drive reforms across the international financial system, including new capital models for financing multilateral development banks, lesson learning from the Pandemic, and the creation of new crisis instruments for future shocks.