LSE Blended Finance Lab Symposium

In-person only
30 September 2026
LSE, London

Event overview

The second annual Symposium of the LSE Blended Finance Lab brings together leading practitioners, policymakers, and researchers from across the blended finance ecosystem to take stock of progress, deepen collaboration, and advance the Lab’s work programme.

Building on the inaugural 2025 Symposium, which convened more than 75 organisations and established the Lab’s five stakeholder groups, this year’s event moves from diagnosis to action.

Morning sessions will offer both foundational and advanced perspectives on blended finance alongside an ecosystem mapping exercise in which representatives from stakeholder groups (asset owners, asset managers and banks, DFI and MDBs, governments, NGOs and foundations) will present how their organisations engage with and contribute to the field.

Afternoon sessions will feature updates on the Lab’s three workstreams: 1) strengthening the evidence base for investment in EMDEs; 2) facilitating credit ratings for blended finance; and 3) enabling institutional asset owner allocation to blended finance, with input from workstream participants and external experts.

The day will conclude with a public evening panel discussion on the role of private capital mobilisation in meeting global climate and development goals.

Attendance at the daytime sessions is by invitation only. The evening event is open to the public.

Draft agenda

Wednesday, 30 September 2026

9.00 – Blended Finance 101 – Introduction to blended finance and the blended finance toolbox 

10.15 – Blended Finance 201 – A deep dive

11.15 – Coffee break

11.30 – Ecosystem mapping – Exploring blended finance from a range of sectoral and organisational vantage points

12.45 – Lunch

13.30 – BFL workstream update: Strengthening the evidence base for investment in EMDEs

15.00 – Coffee break

15.30 – BFL workstream update: Credit ratings sandbox

15.30 – BFL workstream update: Asset owner allocation practices

17.00 – Reception

18.00 – Public event (more details TBC)

Registration and further details

Register Here for invited participants only.

Read more about last year’s Symposium here.

Read more about the LSE Blended Finance Lab here.