Alison Harwood is a Senior Fellow in Residence at the Milken Institute's Global Market Development practice focused on sustainable and innovative finance and mobilizing private capital to finance the SDGs. Alison is a recognized leader in building capital markets in emerging market countries. She was Global Head of Capital Markets at the World Bank Group where she oversaw an international portfolio of advisory operations to build local markets. Earlier, Alison was Director of the Capital Markets Practice at the Barents Group, KPMG's emerging markets consulting arm, and Resident Advisor on financial sector reform with Harvard's Institute for International Development in Indonesia. She began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Alison has published and is a frequent speaker on emerging markets and sustainable finance. She is on the board of CIFI, which finances sustainable infrastructure in Latin America, and on the Securities Markets Advisory Board and a program leader on sustainable and green finance at the Toronto Centre. She has an M.B.A. and Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.