Managing Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Nandita Parshad is the Managing Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Group at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where she heads a group of 200 staff covering the power, energy, transport, social infrastructure, and municipal infrastructure sectors in all the Bank’s countries of operation.

She has 30 years of experience in financing and investing in the energy and infrastructure sector in emerging economies such as India, Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union, Mongolia, Turkey, Middle East and North Africa. Since joining EBRD in 1992, Ms. Parshad has led several project financings involving debt, equity, syndications, and policy dialogue with government actors and domestic and international investors. Prior to her current role, Ms. Parshad led the Energy & Natural Resources Business Group at EBRD. She is a member of the Energy Transition Commission and World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy. Prior to working at the EBRD, Nandita worked as a consultant for the World Bank in the Finance Department in Washington D.C. in 1986-1987 and from 1988-1992 as a Project Officer in the Energy Sector in New Delhi, India.

Ms. Parshad holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.