Abyd Karmali OBE is a Managing Director, ESG & Sustainable Finance at Bank of America based in London. From 2007-2014, he served as Merrill Lynch’s (subsequently BofAML) Global Head of Carbon Markets. In 2014, he became part of the team supporting the bank’s broader capital deployment commitment to mobilise $300 billion for low-carbon investment opportunities by 2030 and to fulfill its net zero commitment before 2050. Before joining the financial sector in 2007, he was a partner in a management consulting firm in Washington DC, Toronto and London where he advised companies on their climate strategy and also spent two years with the United Nations Environment Programme in Paris as Energy and Climate Change Programme Officer during the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Karmali was selected to serve as one of two inaugural private sector representatives to the Board of the UN Green Climate Fund in Songdo, South Korea. He holds an MS in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His not-for-profit voluntary roles include the Aga Khan Foundation and The Climate Group.