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Jemima Hodkinson

United Kingdom

Jemima Hodkinson Member since 07/05/2026

FCDO

Private Sector Advisor

2019-current    Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), UK Government

2025-current     Private Sector Development Adviser, British Embassy Kyiv

  • SRO of £30m/year programme supporting economic resilience and recovery in Ukraine
  • Lead on blended finance vehicles to subsidise bank lending and equity finance via International Financial Institutions
  • Lead technical assistance to Ministry of Economy on investment promotion and privatisation

 

2023-2025        Senior Adviser, Private Sector and Capital Markets Department

  • Deputy Head of Impact Investment team: responsible for delivering policy/influencing campaigns and making programme investments to catalyse a larger, better impact investment market. Lead FCDO’s 10-year campaign to establish outcome-based financing mechanisms in the impact investment market. Manage a £169m blended finance programme focussed on emerging markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America, including accountability for financial and impact results. 
  • Peer reviewer of other private sector development initiatives, including the completion review of FCDO’s first £30m equity investment programme in India’s poorest states
  • Lead a strategic review of the role of philanthropic organisations in mobilising private capital for development
  • Senior Advisor on private finance objectives for the 2023 Ukraine Recovery Conference
  • Experience across sectors relevant to climate mitigation/adaptation and human development 

2020-2023         Head of Global Cyber and Digital Development Programme

 

2017-2019        Department for International Trade (DIT) 

2019                 Senior Policy Adviser, Exports & Investment Policy Unit 

2018-2019         Private Secretary to the Chief Trade Negotiator 

2017-2018     Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for International Trade  

2016-2017                        Economic Diplomacy Policy Officer, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)