Nili Gilbert, CFA, CAIA, is a global investor and board director with over two decades of experience in institutional asset management, and is one of the most influential voices on the questions reshaping global markets: where the economy is heading, what AI and geopolitics mean for strategy today, and how leaders and institutions can identify opportunities to build sustainable value.

She is the Vice Chairwoman of Carbon Direct, a Senior Advisor at McKinsey, and an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management. She is also Chair of the David Rockefeller Fund Investment Committee and a member of the Harvard Salata Institute Advisory Board.

Nili is currently a member of the World Economic Forum 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).

Nili also co-chairs the Milken Institute Geo-Economics Leadership Network and serves on the Bretton Woods Committee. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Economic Club of New York.

She previously co-founded Matarin Capital, scaling the firm into one of the largest women-owned asset managers in the U.S., and managed over $25 billion as a Senior Director at Invesco Quantitative Strategies.

Named to Barron's 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance and TIME100 Climate, Nili 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. She is a Forbes contributor and has been a frequent commentator on international markets and economic strategy on CNBC and Bloomberg Television. Her TED Talk has nearly 2 million views.

She received her BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, her MBA from Columbia Business School, where she was a Toigo Fellow, and completed programs in leadership and sustainability at Oxford and Stanford Universities.