Ignacio de Calonje 2026 speakers

“Ignacio de Calonje is a Chief Investment Officer in the World Bank Group’s Global Minerals and Metals and Energy teams. He is based in London and supports the World Bank Group’s work with private sector clients in these sectors. His responsibilities include originating, structuring and executing IFC’s equity and debt investments in private sector energy and mining projects in emerging markets as well as contributing to new product development and sector strategy.

Prior to his posting in London, Ignacio was based in Istanbul, Cairo and Washington DC for IFC. Ignacio has over 25 years of experience in the field of international finance, having worked on numerous equity and debt investments in emerging markets across a range of sectors. Before joining IFC in 2004, he worked for Lehman Brothers’ investment banking division in London and Madrid advising Spanish and UK corporate clients in mergers, acquisitions and debt capital market transactions.
Ignacio was also a non-Executive Director of Alcazar Energy (a renewable energy company with 400 MW of solar and wind assets in operation in Egypt and Jordan) from 2019 to 2021 and non-Executive Director of Kuwait Energy (an oil & gas company with operations in Iraq, Egypt and Oman) from 2017 to 2019.

He has a Bsc in Business Administration from Universidad San Pablo-CEU (Madrid) and a Masters Degree from Columbia University (New York).”