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Bhakti Mirchandani

Lecturer, Sustainability Management

Bhakti Mirchandani is an investment executive with proven leadership ability at the intersection of investment management with sustainability and inclusion. She is the Director of Responsible Investing at Trinity Church Wall Street, a vibrant Episcopal community with the core values of faith, integrity, inclusiveness, compassion, social justice, and stewardship. Previously, she was Managing Director at FCLTGlobal, ESG Advisor to Corbin Capital, an investment management strategist at One William Street Capital Management and Lehman Brothers, and a sustainable finance banker at BarclaysCapital and Unitus Capital. She also spent 10 years pioneering microinsurance, microfinance CLOs, and micro pensions. Mirchandani is a monthly contributor to Forbes.com on sustainable and impact investing; serves on the Board of Commissioners for the New York State Insurance Fund; is a co-founder and steering committee member of Institutional Allocators for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion(IADEI); and is a life member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work has been featured in the NY Times, the Financial Times, Institutional Investor, CNBCand at the G-20, and Davos. She holds a BA, MBA, and MPA from Harvard. Most importantly, Bhakti is the proud mom of a spirited three-year-old.