Gursimran Rooprai “Simran”

MBA @ MIT Sloan

Gursimran Rooprai “Simran” is a development finance professional with 17 years in sustainable finance, technology, and capital deployment across 50+ emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) and the EU. At the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he oversaw EU partnerships, policy engagement, and capital mobilization for high-impact transactions, deploying intra- and extra-EU policy instruments (like InvestEU, EFSD+, and the RRF) to back the energy transition, AI, and innovation. In 2024, he helped launch the €150M Critical Raw Materials Co-investment Facility and advanced the €3B Global Green Bond Initiative Fund with the European Investment Bank and Amundi. Previously at IFC (World Bank Group), he worked across investments, strategy, treasury, and operations to scale climate lending via financial markets, by launching the $2B Emerging Green One bond fund and building the first-of-kind CAFI platform, now used by 140+ EMDE banks to digitally capture ~$30B in climate finance. Earlier, he worked on infrastructure and financial advisory projects in India and served in the UN DESA Division for Sustainable Development on Small Island Developing States. He is currently an MIT Sloan one-year MBA ’26 Dean’s Fellow and teaching assistant to Professor Simon Johnson (2024 Nobel laureate), focusing on leadership, the energy transition, and technology-driven finance.