Joel Barnor
Joel Barnor
Joel is an infrastructure and economic development expert, with a focus on both public and private sector led opportunities and transactions that ultimately drive economic and sustainable development. Within this field he has led infrastructure transactions, diagnostic research projects and developed strategies at a sectoral and national level. Joel also has extensive managerial and business development experience. He has over 10 years of economics and financial advisory expertise working with a leading African consultancy, Genesis Analytics, and until recently was the Partnerships and Investment Strategy Lead at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. He simultaneously heads up the Africa office of the Sustainable Development Investment Partnership, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Joel is currently the lead advisor to the UK Government Foreign Commonwealth Development Office for the just energy programme for South Africa.
Over his career, he has built deep expertise in project development and implementation, project finance, project due diligence and appraisal, as well as sustainable finance. Joel has worked on multiple public and private sector infrastructure, private sector development, and sustainable finance projects for private clients, governments as well as international development associations and donor organisations. Joel has experience across the energy, real estate, water and other key economic and social sectors. His experience also cuts across various markets in Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania. He is well experienced at managing teams with diverse skills across geographies.
Joel holds an MSc in the Political Economy of Development from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He also has a Master’s in Financial Markets from Rhodes University (cum laude) and recently completed his PhD.