Amal-Lee Amin 2025 Speaker

Managing Director & Head of Climate, Diversity & Advisory , British International Investment

Amal-Lee Amin joined British International Investment in February 2020 to lead implementation of the climate strategy for aligning to the goals of the Paris Agreement. A passionate advocate for sustainable development, she now also leads teams on gender and diversity and advisory. Amal-Lee has had senior advisor roles including the UK’s COP26 Presidency, the Green Climate Fund and is currently a member of the independent High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, the OECD Advisory Group on Climate and Economic Resilience and the UAE’s Independent Climate Change Accelerator. From 2015-2020 Amal-Lee was Chief of Climate Change at the Inter-American Development Bank, working across the MDB system to scale climate finance in developing countries. For 10 years Amal-Lee led policy on sustainable energy and climate change in key roles within the UK Government’s Cabinet Office, DECC, DEFRA and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 2010-15 Amal-Lee developed E3G’s international climate finance programme, with focus on China and Latin America.