Fundi Tshazibana
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Nomfundo Tshazibana (born in 1977), commonly known as Fundi Tshazibana, is a South African economist, who serves Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank from 10 July 2019. Immediately prior to her appointment to that position, she served as an adviser to the Governor of the bank, since 10 February 2018. Before that, from 2015 until 2018, she served as Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington, D.C., for 23 Sub-Saharan African countries, including South Africa.
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[edit]- For climate risk, the past is not a good predictor of the future.
- We’ve got our hands full.
- Sabine and I spent quite a bit of time discussing the things we want to focus on. And I wish I could say it was one or three, but there’s actually quite a few.
- We have managed to achieve a broader membership among emerging market countries. This is a concern that we’ve had in the past: whether the NGFS is just a network that’s made up of western countries, if it’s relevant for everyone else.
- NGFS membership cannot become a greenwashing opportunity for central banks that simply want to appear to be proactive on climate change.
- We want to see more engagement among the new joiners and active participation in the network.
- We started the NGFS as a network of the willing, but we are moving more and more to having a network of the committed.
- We had to start somewhere.
