Raúl Rosales

Dr Raúl C. Rosales is a Senior Executive Fellow in the Centre for Climate Finance & Investment at Imperial College Business School in London. He serves on Imperial’s Singapore Green Finance Centre executive committee and leads the hydrogen hub (“h2 enable & accelerator”) at Imperial College. He is the lead author of the COP26 Green Finance Report on Voluntary Carbon Markets in ASEAN, and his interest on research is in the space of carbon finance markets, net-zero engineering and funds mobilization. He is also Senior Advisor to Orchard Global Asset Management. Raúl has 20+ years of experience in banking and multilateral development banks, focusing on capital management solutions and private debt. Previously, he was Senior Banker for Energy at EBRD; and Senior Advisor to the Chairman and Global Head MDBS at BBVA. Raúl holds a PhD (2013) in Civil Engineering from Universidad Politécnica Madrid.

Companies

• Senior Executive Fellow, Centre for Climate Finance and Investment Imperial College Business School (2020)
• Senior Advisor Orchard Global Asset Management LLP (2014)
• Research Fellow & Visiting Lecturer Imperial College Business School (2018 — 2020)
• Senior Business Advisor & Visiting Lecturer The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2016 — 2019)
• Non-Executive Director Empark Aparcamientos y Servicios S.A. (2017 — 2018)
• Senior Banker, Energy & Natural Resources - Banking European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) (2010 — 2013)
• Global Head Multilateral Financial Institutions, Chairman Office BBVA (2003 — 2010)
• Managing Director - Corporate & Investment Banking BBVA (1998 — 2003)
• Director, Capital Markets The Sakura Bank Ltd. (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.) (1997 — 1998)

Education

• Executive education Imperial College Business School (2018 — 2018)
• Ph.D. Civil Engineering Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2011 — 2013)
• Postgraduates Diplomas IEB (1995 — 1999)
• Bachelor of Science (BSc) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1982 — 1987)