Karim Arslan brings with him over 10 years of experience working in sustainable finance, investment banking, and life insurance. He joined Natixis Dubai in January 2022 to lead the bank’ green and sustainable finance effort in MENA. He previously worked at the London based Green Finance Institute where he led programs and initiatives bringing together groups of experts from the public and private sectors, academia and civil society to co-create new financial facilities and mechanisms to address the climate change. Prior to joining the institute, Karim spent seven years at Barclays Investment Bank as a fixed income trader. He led the bank’s effort to set up and manage the more than GBP 4bn green bond portfolio. Karim was also a key member of the Barclays Green Banking Council, which developed and launched multiple first-to-market green products. A fluent Arabic and French speaker, Karim holds an MSC in Finance from Paris-Dauphine University and an MSc in Econometrics from the Sorbonne University in Paris