Pepukaye Bardouille, director of the Bridgetown Initiative and special adviser on climate resilience to the Barbados Prime Minister’s Office, was the founding CEO of the Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN special envoy on financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and co-chair of the Expert Group on Debt, is a former minister of investment of Egypt (2004-10), former senior vice president of the World Bank Group, and former executive director of the International Monetary Fund. ©Project Syndicate