Nili Gilbert

Nili Gilbert, CFA, CAIA, is the Vice Chairwoman of Carbon Direct, a leader in scaling carbon management into a global industry through both climate technology investments 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. Additionally, Nili is 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. and has advisory roles as a permanent member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.

She is a member of the Global Future Council (GFC) of Innovative Financing for Nature and Climate (2025-2026), and was previously a member of the GFC on the Future of Philanthropy for Climate and Nature (2023-2024).

Gilbert is honored among Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance and TIME100 Climate. Her TED Talk has received nearly two 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, Bloomberg BusinessWeek “One to Watch”, and awarded with a Bellagio Center Residency by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Gilbert 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.