Harold K. Mogale, CFA

Climate Finance Specialist, Development Bank of Southern Africa

Harold is a Climate Finance Specialist in the Climate and Environment Finance Unit of the DBSA. His role is in providing critical input, coordinating and managing relationships with regard to the DBSA accessing climate financing from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) which includes the conceptualization, accessing project preparation funding, the development of proposals, and supporting the implementation of approved climate financing programmes which are responsive to the priorities of the DBSA’s core sectors. Additionally, Harold’s role is in implementing the Climate Finance Facility, an innovative blended finance facility co-funded on a 50:50 basis between the DBSA and GCF with a core objective of catalysing private sector investment into climate mitigation and climate adaptation projects in the Common Monetary Area compromising South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia.

Harold has over 15 years’ experience within the financial sector, ranging from investment management, financial and corporate advisory and development finance. Harold is a CFA Charterholder and holds an MBA from the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.