Abyd Karmali

Abyd Karmali is managing director of ESG and sustainable finance at Bank of America, based in London. From 2007-2014, he served as Merrill Lynch’s (subsequently Bank of America) global head of carbon markets. In 2014, he joined the team supporting the bank’s broader capital deployment commitment to mobilize $1.5 trillion for low-carbon and other sustainable finance opportunities by 2030. He has worked for nearly 30 years on climate change and sustainable finance, and was made an officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for these efforts in 2019. Before joining the financial sector, he was a partner in a management consulting firm in Washington, D.C., and Toronto where he advised companies on climate strategy, and spent two years with the UN Environment Programme in Paris as energy and climate change programme officer. In 2013, Abyd was one of two inaugural private sector representatives to the board of the Green Climate Fund. He has a B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and a M.S. in technology and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.