Transition Investment Workshop 2025
Resilience in the Age of Uncertainty: Powering Transition Investment Amid Global Challenges
October 28, 2025 — Stern NYUAD
The “polycrisis” is not a passing phenomenon but rather an enduring feature of our times — a reality that businesses and investors must learn to navigate with agility, foresight, and resilience.
Transition investing has risen from the ashes of ESG as a compelling philosophy—
one that mobilizes institutional capital, taps the catalytic dynamism of private markets, and delivers genuine investment additionality in the emerging and lower-income economies of the Global South, particularly across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (the MEASA region).
How can transition investing become the strategy of choice for large institutions, unlocking the essential reallocation of capital from developed markets to emerging and lower-income economies?
Preliminary Program
09:00 – 09:15
Registration and reception
09:15 – 09:30
Welcome address
09:30 – 10:30
Session 1.
Transition investment insights from research
This session will leverage on the key research outputs and insights from TIL’s research team, with special reference to the most recent trends in SWF’s investments in adaptation and resilience, in SDG-aligned private equity investments in emerging and developing economies of the MEASA region.
10:30– 11:30
Session 2.
Development as an asset class? Repricing risk and returns in emerging and developing markets
This session will discuss the most recent evidence on credit risk in emerging markets from the GEMs database, the role of MDBs and DFIs as originators of bankable projects in emerging and lower income countries, blended finance, risk mitigation, and investment strategies to foster institutional capital mobilization along the SDGs.
11:30-12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00
Session 3.
Seeking resilience alpha: private markets opportunities in adaptation against global risks
Resilience alpha is no longer anecdotal; it is measurable, repeatable, and increasingly priced by the market. Investors who underwrite for resilience stand to capture a structural return premium while cutting left-tail risk. This session will
discuss the opportunities for private equity investment in resilience and system adaptation across multiple impact themes.
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