Dr. Dmitry Pozhidaev is Global Advisor for Local Government Finance at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). He supports UNCDF programmes in East and Southern Africa, East Europe and Central Asia. He has been working with UNCDF since 2010, guiding local development finance programmes for the public and private sectors. Prior to that, he worked with international financial institutions and private sector companies, such as the World Bank, the European Union, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and Adam Smith International as a consultant on development finance, public financial management and infrastructure investment in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central, and South-East Asia. He served as an international municipal administrator in Kosovo, managing the capital municipality of Pristina with an annual budget of USD 11 million. Mr. Pozhidaev has a doctorate degree in Development Economics and has authored numerous articles and book chapters on public administration, local development, urban economic resilience, finance and investment. He is a Visiting Professor at Makerere University (Uganda).