Augustin Flory 2024 Speaker

Managing Director of Innovative Partnerships and Development Finance

Africa Practice

Biography

Augustin has more than 20 years of experience working on private and development finance, including project finance, resource mobilisation; innovative financing; resource tracking and accountability and finance capacity strengthening.

Immediately before joining Gavi, Augustin was an independent consultant and the Finance Expert of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement Executive Committee and the Chair of its Finance Task Team, where he oversaw the design and launch of a new Country Finance Capacity Development Platform for SUN countries. Prior to this, Augustin was Managing Director, Nutrition at the Results for Development Institute (R4D) where he successfully developed and lead the nutrition practice of R4D, positioning it as a leading NGO and go-to partner on nutrition financing, innovation, and data.

Prior to R4D, Augustin was Executive Director, Nutrition at the Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). Augustin led the creation of the Power of Nutrition, a new $1 bn public-private innovative finance partnership to tackle malnutrition. He also was a key member of the African Development Bank team that raised a record $9bn for the 11th replenishment of the African Development Fund. He started his career as a project finance attorney in a private practice based in China.

Augustin has a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, a LLB from King’s College, London and a Masters degree in Law from the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.