Professor Victor Murinde of SFM participated in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA) Conference of Ministers 2021, which was held via Zoom during 19-22 March 2021. On Sunday 21 March, Professor Murinde served as moderator for a panel discussion on “Institutional Investors and Green Infrastructure Investment in Africa in the context of COVID-19”, in which the panellists included Finance Ministers from African governments as well as CEOs of leading institutional investment firms from Africa, the UK, EU and USA. The main message from the panel discussion was a call for greater partnerships between African governments, institutional investors (such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance funds, etc…) and research institutions (e.g. universities, think tanks, etc..) to create an institutional and regulatory framework for scaling up green infrastructure investment across Africa and fast track sustainable industrialisation for a stronger recovery and more resilient economies and societies. There was a call for a Pan-African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank.