Nili Gilbert
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 an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management, Chair of the David Rockefeller Fund Investment Committee, 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) and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Advisory Council. Among other positions, Nili previously Co-Founded Matarin Capital, growing the firm into one of the largest women-owned asset managers in the U.S. 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.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.