About Perfect Nations

A race every nation can win

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

The Vision: Every nation able to ensure seven basic standards of living for each of its people: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood.
The Mission: Perfect Nations unites innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI) to co-design, with every nation, seven basic standards of living for all.

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Governance first

Good governance comes first.

Before finance and before super intelligence. Where no money is lost to corruption, every dollar can reach a citizen.

With great local leadership: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for every citizen.

01Good governance
02Innovative financing for development
03Super intelligence

The IMF estimates that bribery alone costs $1.5 to $2 trillion a year, about 2% of world output. Source: IMF Staff Discussion Note 16/05, May 2016

The whole logo, for good governance

The Perfect Nations Cup

Awarded only to financing instruments that pass two tests:

01
Led by good governance, with no room for corruption.
02
Tracked by super intelligence, which follows the impact to every beneficiary.

What we do

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Three steps, from what a nation owns to seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Every nation is richer than its balance sheet.

Perfect Nations values each nation’s five greatest assets, so that what it owns can finance what its people need.

64% of the wealth of nations, 2018

People

Human capital, the lifetime earnings of a nation’s people: the largest asset in every income group.
1 in 4 dollars of the world’s wealth, 2014

Infrastructure

Roads, rail, ports, power and buildings: produced capital.
23% of the wealth of low-income nations, 2018

Land, farms and forests

Farmland, pasture, forests and fisheries: renewable natural capital.
34% people’s share of the wealth of fossil-fuel nations

Minerals and energy

Oil, gas, coal and metals: wealth below ground, to be turned into people.
$547bn the value of mangroves as flood defence, 2018

Ocean and coast

Fisheries, reefs and mangroves: the blue wealth of a nation.

The World Bank valued the wealth of 146 nations at US$1,152 trillion in 2018, and people alone are 64% of it.

Sources: World Bank, The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021 (2018 data) and 2018 (2014 data).

The Sovereign Assets ledger

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

Capital tied to human outcomes.

Five instruments that turn what a nation owns into funding for its people, each proved by a real deal.

The laurels: capital from every source, lifting the cup.

Outcome Bonds
Investors earn more as verified results arrive.

$225MAmazon reforestation, paid in carbon removed

Brazil, 2024World Bank, August 2024
Development Impact Bonds
Investors fund the work; outcome payers repay them for results.

160%of the learning target, met in Rajasthan

India, 2018Educate Girls, 2018
Social Bonds
Bond money ring-fenced for homes, schools and clinics.

$400Mfor affordable homes for 24,000+ families

Ecuador, 2020Inter-American Development Bank, 2020
Sustainability-Linked Bonds
Miss the national climate target and the coupon rises.

$2Bthe first sovereign bond of its kind

Chile, 2022Ministry of Finance of Chile, 2022
Standard Tokens
Designed by Perfect Nations
A citizen-scale share in one basic living standard.

KES 3,000to own a Kenyan government bond, by phone

Precedent: Kenya, 2017FSD Kenya, 2017

All the instruments Design your structure

03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

GDP counts what a nation makes. Perfect Capita counts what it costs to reach everyone.

The yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards.

2.1bn

Foodpeople moderately or severely food insecure, one in four on Earth
FAO and UN partners, SOFI 2026 (2025 data)

People below each standard today.

Barbados, the first nation priced: an estimate

$6,204Perfect Capita, per person

282,623people

$1.75bnThe price of Perfect Barbados, a year

How Perfect Capita works Barbados, priced

Each star shows the people below that standard today; the groups overlap.

Barbados: Perfect Nations estimate in 2025 US dollars, to be confirmed with Barbados.

The Founder’s Vision

Our nations must be capable of ensuring basic standards of living for each of their people.

Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations

Leadership

Preeti Sinha

President and CEO

From the trading floors of Wall Street to the leadership of a United Nations fund, now at work for every nation.

Every nation already owns what it needs to ensure a basic standard of living for its people. My work is to help it see those assets, price that standard, and build the capital to close the distance.

30years in investment and development finance
$7.3bnraised from 27 donor countries for the African Development Fund
46least developed countries served by the UN fund she led
4continents: New York, London, Geneva, Tunis, Mumbai, New Delhi, Hong Kong

The record

Where capital meets development

Executive Secretary
UN Capital Development Fund · New York

Appointed in February 2021 to lead the United Nations fund for loans and guarantees in the 46 least developed countries.
President and CEO
FFD Financing for Development · Geneva

Led her own development finance advisory firm in Geneva.
Senior President
YES Global Institute · New Delhi

Built a think tank inside a private bank to develop India’s impact investment ecosystem.
Chief Resource Mobilization Officer
African Development Bank · Tunis

Managed the thirteenth replenishment of the African Development Fund: US$7.3 billion from 27 donor countries.
Global Leadership Fellow
World Economic Forum · Geneva

Among the first Fellows; ran the Financing for Development Initiative with the UN Financing for Development Office.
Investment Banking
JP Morgan · Lehman Brothers · HSBC · Rabobank

Mergers and acquisitions for financial institutions, bond syndication at Lehman Brothers and the start-up team of Rabobank in India.

Sources: UNCDF announcement · preetisinha.com

Education

Yale School of ManagementMaster of Public and Private Management (MBA)
Dartmouth CollegeBA, Economics and Computer Science
Harvard Kennedy SchoolExecutive Education, Public Financial Management
World Economic ForumMaster’s in Global Leadership

The Council of Stewards

The team behind every blueprint

201 SI Researchers: super intelligence agents, not people; the President and CEO approves all their work before it is published.

Their names and portraits are representative. Six research Stewards each hold one mandate, and a Nation Steward keeps each of the 195 open blueprints: they survey, price, draft and verify every figure, blueprint and Letter.

Research Stewards