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Rupesh Madlani

CEO, Bankers without Boundaries

ABOUT ME

Rupesh is co-founder and CEO of Bankers without Boundaries (BwB), a not-for-profit that mobilises capital for environmental and social projects, and co-founder of Global Sustainable Capital Management (GSCM). He is a senior adviser to NatureFinance and a board member of Terracene, the biodiversity foundation of LGI Sustainable Innovation. He is also a member of the EIT Community New European Bauhaus Advisory Board. Rupesh previously spent nearly eight years in equity research at Lehman Brothers and Barclays covering sustainability and clean technology, and was ranked first for renewable energy in Institutional Investor's 2013 All-Europe Research Team survey. He began his career in corporate finance at PwC.

Rupesh graduated in economics from the London School of Economics and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Freeman of the City of London.

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Rupesh has been an expert reviewer on sustainable development publications for the World Economic Forum, the OECD, the UN and the Prince of Wales's International Sustainability Unit. He has spoken at COP climate summits, sustainable investment panels and impact events around the world.

Rupesh Madlani, co-founder and CEO of Bankers without Boundaries
Rupesh Madlani

PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

MY AFFILIATIONS

Investor

A UK-based online learning platform that uses cognitive-science learning techniques and artificial intelligence to help students achieve A*/A grades.

Co-founder and CEO

The Investment Bank for Earth. Founded in 2013 as a not-for-profit, BwB structures projects and mobilises capital for environmental and social outcomes across more than 30 countries.

Co-founder and Investor

Global Sustainable Capital Management is a private investment office deploying its partners’ own capital for impact at the venture stage. It is a member of the Bankers without Boundaries group.

Senior Adviser

NatureFinance is a solutions lab that helps design financial instruments, global standards and enabling policies to align global finance with nature-positive and equitable outcomes.

Investor

Roam designs and builds electric motorcycles and buses in Nairobi for African markets.

Investor

Natrify is the first company in the MENA region to provide sustainable solutions for the bioplastic industry through biotechnology.

Investor

BioOrbit is a UK biotech company using protein crystallisation, including in microgravity, to turn hospital-administered treatments into self-injectable medicines that patients can use at home.

An innovative initiative aimed at facilitating both public and private finance for sustainable urban development, to advance Europe’s transition to climate neutrality. It empowers cities to achieve their climate goals and drive impactful projects, through TA and capital facilitation.

A transaction-focused entity that exists to mobilise private, public, and philanthropic capital at scale to support the implementation of transformational environmental and social projects.

Board Member

Terracene is the corporate foundation for biodiversity of LGI Sustainable Innovation. It funds and supports biodiversity restoration and conservation projects in hotspots worldwide, takes part in research with biodiversity benefits and raises awareness.

Investor

Gridserve is the UK's most used public EV charging network, delivering superfast, reliable charging powered exclusively by renewable energy, including its own solar farms.

Investor

Gigatons delivers Tier IV, solar-powered AI data centres that pair dedicated clean microgrids with modular compute, removing power as the constraint on digital infrastructure growth.

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Advisory Board Member
EIT Community New European Bauhaus is the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's programme supporting the New European Bauhaus. Its first Advisory Board was set up in 2026 as a strategic sounding board for its work.

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