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

She is also Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero’s (GFANZ) Advisory Panel of technical experts and one of its Principals. In addition to serving as an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management, Nili is Chair of the David Rockefeller Fund Investment Committee. She is also a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Advisory Council, and a member of Harvard’s Salata Institute Advisory Board.

With a focus on global macroeconomic forecasting and investment, Nili previously Co-Founded Matarin Capital, growing the firm into one of the largest women-owned asset managers in the U.S. She has also served on two World Economic Forum Global Future Councils, and across committee chair and advisory roles as a permanent member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.

Nili is honored among Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance and TIME100 Climate. Her TED Talk has received nearly 2 million views. She has also been recognized 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.”

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.