Emerging Markets

Karthik works as Senior Advisor for  Climate Bonds Initiative with a focus on India and Asia. He is an innovative Investments and Capital Markets Industry professional with solid experience in Green Finance, Asset Management, Banking and Capital Markets, Throughout his career, Karthik has been operating at a senior level in the Financial Services sector in an international environment.

Karthik was previously Commercial Director at Climate Bonds Initiative in London and a member of the Senior Management team.

Phi Thi Minh Nguyet (or Moonie Phi) is currently a Sustainable Debt Analyst with the Markets Intelligence team. She initiatlly joined Climate Bonds Initiative as a Research Analyst in September 2019, after 8 years working in the banking and financial sector in Vietnam.  

Moonie primarily works around CBI's Social and Sustainability (SnS) Bond Database, providing data analysis and UoPs analysis for SnS bonds. 

Moonie holds an MSc in Banking and Finance at Sheffield Hallam University and a BA in Economics at Foreign Trade University in Vietnam. Before devoting her work full-time to Climate Bonds Initiative, Moonie served as a Corporate Client Relationship officer at JSC Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam – the biggest state-owned bank in Vietnam (based on total assets) and a lecturer and researcher at the Academy of Finance, Vietnam. She also has had a number of papers accepted for publications in indexed international journals. She is passionate about sustainable development and green finance, which brought her to Climate Bonds Initiative.

Moonie is based in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Bridget is the Director of Technical Development where she is responsible for the Policy, Standards, Taxonomy and Market Intelligence teams.

She has been at the Climate Bonds Initiative since 2012 in a number of roles, most recently as Head of Taxonomies where projects included the Common Ground Taxonomy through the International Platform on Sustainable Finance as well as ASEAN, Singapore and others. Previous roles included Head of Market Intelligence, Head of Asia Pacific and the Content and Production Manager. Bridget is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Bridget has been working in sustainable finance for 15 years in London, Sydney and Cape Town.