Gail Warrander is a Senior Urban Resilience Specialist in ADB on secondment from the UK's FCDO with over 30 years of public and private sector experience in the UK, Kosovo, and Africa, including eight years in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa. She has supervised agricultural projects across Northern Nigeria and the Niger Delta, including sustainable rice production (AWD), regenerative agriculture with Kano University linked to carbon credits, nutrition work with GAIN, and fertilizer studies. She has overseen UK forestry projects such as those in Edo State. In South Africa, she supported climate‑smart fruit production in the coal Province with blended‑finance mechanisms as part of her work leading South Africa's Just Energy Transition. More broadly, Gail has worked on climate finance, green transport, clean energy, grids, financial inclusion, capital markets and insurance (including parametric), and manufacturing, including agriprocessing. She is a qualified UK solicitor with a European law degree from Bristol University, a Legal Practice Diploma from Nottingham Trent, and an MSc in Business, Leadership and Strategy from London Business School as a Sloan Fellow.
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