What’s driving Pakistan’s battery bonanza… [CLIMATE AND CAPITAL MEDIA]

by Michael Sheldrick | Sep 10, 2025 | Climate, Finance

Households and businesses rush to solar-plus-storage, showing how bottom-up energy transitions can reshape emerging economies This article was originally published on Climate and Capital Media. At a cement plant in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

Who’s Winning The Jobs Of Tomorrow—and How To Compete With Them [FORBES]

by Michael Sheldrick | May 20, 2025 | Finance, International Politics, Leadership

Education, sector focus, and smart incentives will decide which country wins the next wave of jobs. Here are the three questions that will define what country leads—and which gets left behind. This article was originally published on Forbes. Governments around the...

Let us turn the page on our current age of despair [Sunday Times]

by Michael Sheldrick | Aug 4, 2024 | Finance, Leadership

If you wake up each morning with a sense of gloom, despair and anxiety about the state of the world, you are not alone. Studies show a surge in hopelessness and societal discontent as governments have failed to meet the public’s aspirations for a sustainable and...

Investing in Africa to maximise its demographic dividend [Sunday Times]

by Michael Sheldrick | May 26, 2024 | Finance, Leadership

Millions of Africans live in poverty. File photo.Image: ALAN EASON You don’t need us to tell you about this continent’s potential. About 70 years ago, Africans comprised 8% of the world’s population. By 2050, just a century later, an estimated one-quarter of humanity...

Cooperation Is The Only Way Forward: How Major Financial Institutions Can Tackle Shared Global Challenges

by Michael Sheldrick | Oct 30, 2023 | Finance

This month, Morocco hosted the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, a global gathering of financial heavyweights featuring finance ministers and central bankers from all of the world’s major economies. Foremost on their agenda was...