SPEAKERS

Nili Gilbert, CFA, CAIA, is the Vice Chairwoman of Carbon Direct, a leader in scaling carbon management into a global industry through climate investment, technology, and client advisory.

Nili is also Chair of the US$140+ Trillion Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero’s Advisory Panel of technical experts, Chairwoman of both the David Rockefeller Fund and the Synergos Institute Investment Committees, an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management, and a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group. Previously, she was Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Matarin Capital, which became one of the larger women-owned asset managers in the US.

Nili is a member of the TED Vision Council and her TED Talk on climate finance has received nearly 2 million views. She has been honored among Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance, as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, LinkedIn “TopVoice” in Finance, Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Association of Securities Professionals, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek “One to Watch.” She is a permanent member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.

Nili received her BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, her MBA from Columbia Business School, where she was a Toigo Fellow, and she has completed programs in leadership and sustainability at Oxford and Stanford Universities.