Speakers

Isabella is an established Emerging Markets professional, with 30 years’ experience across law, investment banking, structuring, and consultancy.

Her expertise lies in the origination and structuring of complex transactions, with a particular interest in infrastructure. In 2015, she founded Catara Consulting, an investment advisory firm. Isabella’s background in Emerging Markets includes management of the advisory practice at FKS Capital Partners, a structured finance and principal investments firm working across global financial markets. She has worked as Head of London and Africa Capital Solutions at Renaissance Capital, Head of Emerging Markets Credit Structuring at Morgan Stanley as well as at JP Morgan.

Isabella also brings detailed experience in corporate governance, being an independent non-executive director of ICBC Standard Bank plc, chairing its Board Risk Management Committee, and a member of the NYU Law International Alumni Advisory Board.

ImpactA Global

ImpactA Global Limited is a pioneering, women-led firm with an infrastructure credit impact strategy for Emerging Markets (with focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia). The team seeks to catalyse investment in climate transition and sustainable infrastructure. The firm's mission is to unlock critical investment to drive climate transition and address inequalities in emerging markets.

ImpactA Global strongly believes that closing the sustainable infrastructure gap in Emerging Markets and addressing climate challenges are key to driving economic growth, reducing inequalities, supporting disadvantaged and marginalised communities, in particular the lives of women, and are a critical multiplier for positive economic development outcomes in Emerging Markets. ImpactA currently targets impact in four verticals: clean energy, sustainable mobility, water & sanitation and health, strongly aligned with the UN SDGs