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Paddy CARTER
Head of Development Economics
British International Investment
Private Sector & Development author
Paddy Carter is the Head of Development Economics at BII, responsible for internal and external thought-leadership on development economics and finance. Before joining BII, in 2019, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Development (CGD), and before that, at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). He has a PhD in economics, on the topic of foreign aid, from the University of Bristol, where he was also a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow. His research has been published in leading economic journals. Before taking up economics, Paddy was as an equities analyst and financial journalist.
British International Investment
British International Investment (formerly CDC Group) is the UK's development finance institution, with the mission to help solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private-sector growth and innovation. The company has over 70 years of experience in successfully supporting the sustainable, long-term growth of businesses in Africa and Asia, and recently expanded to invest in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. It plays a central role in the UK’s international financing offer, to help developing and emerging countries meet their significant financing needs for infrastructure and enterprise. It plays a central role in the UK’s international financing offer, to help developing and emerging countries meet their significant financing needs for infrastructure and enterprise.