Adam Lyons Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Senior Civil Servant leading large division in a £60 billion impact-driven financial institution. I oversee all aspects of strategy and am leading work to embed impact - growth, jobs, equity and sustainability - into the heart of the business.UKEF is the UK's Export Credit Agency. Last year our financing supported 55,000 jobs and we were listed as the top.

• Heading up the influential team leading on UK Government policy and capital market regulation for climate finance and ESG – a sector with £4.6 trillion of assets in the UK.
• Led development of strategy to align the UK's £9 trillion financial sector with net zero, culminating in keynote announcement at COP26 Finance Day, making front page headlines.
• Led on G7 climate finance agreement during the UK’s Presidency, resulting in a commitment for companies across the G7 to report on climate risk.
• London listed as leading global hub for green finance by Z/Yen (jumping from third to first, overtaking New York and Amsterdam) whilst I ran the team, specifically referencing 'recent UK government action on green.

Senior advisor to Ministers on how to unlock clean growth in developing countries to help eradicate poverty, included overseeing £1.2bn Prosperity Fund which supported green and economic projects around the world.

Six month surge role to rapidly scale up the UK's work on climate change in the Middle East, focussing on water and energy.

Led a team of 30+ to deliver an international investment summit for the Prime Minister aiming to mobilise finance to support Syrian refugees. The summit was hosted by the Prime Minister, unlocked over $1 billion of finance and commercial deals, and was attended by over 30 heads of state and cabinet ministers, the US Treasury Secretary, heads of IMF and.

Deputy Development Director of a country office in Jordan with 43 staff and £650m+ budget delivering aid to support Syrian refugees.

Harare, Zimbabwe

• Head economist for the UK Government in Zimbabwe, leading engagement with the Zimbabwe Government, IMF, World Bank on the response to Zimbabwe’s economic crisis.
• Designed a major new £20m programme to drive economic growth and reduce poverty. Managed UK's £25m contribution to World Bank economic reform fund.

• Overseeing UK's relationship with the European Investment Bank (EIB) – the world’s largest provider of climate finance.
• Worked in partnership with the EIB to secure a €3bn step-up in green lending for the Syria region.

• Economist in HM Treasury advising Ministers on the UK's economic growth strategy:
• I worked in the Chancellor’s Growth Unit, advising the Chancellor on the UK’s economicgrowth strategy and policies [Aug 2013 - Oct 2014]
• I was a Private Secretary to a Treasury Minister (Sajid Javid) helping to drive his economic policy within the department [Aug 2012 - Aug 2013]
• I also spent a year in HMRC as an economist working on welfare policy analysis [May 2011 - Aug 2012]