Ignacio de Calonje

Chief Investment Officer – Global Energy · World Bank Group · company speakers →

Ignacio de Calonje is a Chief Investment Officer in the World Bank Group’s Global Energy team, focusing on private sector interventions. He is based in London and, amongst other responsibilities, leads or co-leads various WBG global initiatives including the Power2Corporates and Green Hydrogen initiatives. He also manages the relationship with a number of the WBG’s key European-based private sector clients in the energy sectors. Prior to his posting in London, Ignacio was based in Istanbul, Cairo and Washington DC for IFC. Ignacio has extensive 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 the WBG 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).

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