Speaking and press
A lender's view of green finance, in English or Arabic, built on a worked example and public standards.
Topics
Capital follows proof
Why good projects go unfinanced, and the file that changes it.
CBAM for exporters and lenders
Embedded emissions are a credit variable now.
An ESMS is five decisions, not a policy
The five gates on real files.
PCAF and data quality scores
The honest part of financed emissions.
Two certificates, not one
How green building money moves between EDGE certificates.
Formats
- Keynote
- 20 to 30 minutes.
- Panel
- English or Arabic.
- Workshop
- Half a day, on the newsletter's tools.
- Team training
- For banks and non-bank lenders.
Bios, ready to paste
Short
Omar Hamdy is a sustainable finance specialist in Cairo. He works on the lender's side of EBRD and IFC credit lines and writes the bilingual newsletter Condition Precedent.
Long
Omar Hamdy is a sustainable finance specialist in Cairo. Trained as an electronics and communications engineer, he built and sold an IoT product, then went to learn money: research at an investment fund, then an MSc in Business Analytics with grade A. He now works on the lender's side of EBRD and IFC credit lines: environmental and social risk, financed emissions and CBAM. He is an IFC EDGE Expert, writes Condition Precedent in English and Arabic, and built the bankability test at omarhamdy.com.
Quotable
"Capital follows proof."
"Most good projects go unfinanced because nobody built the proof."
"A green label must survive its worst day."
Cite Omar Hamdy
Omar Hamdy (عمر حمدي), sustainable finance specialist, Cairo. omarhamdy.com
Headshot on request.