Rafael Gersely

Rafael Gersely has over 15 years of global finance experience. He is experienced as a
seasoned investment professional, having acted in several financial industries, including insurance and reinsurance, management consultancy, and asset management. His expertise includes private and public debt finance, blended finance, project finance, impact funds, nature-based solutions, portfolio decarbonization, and risk management. Rafael is skilled at building up impact investment portfolios, including deal origination, managing due diligence, financial structuring, and legal negotiations. Before TNC, he was a Senior Officer at Finance in Motion, a leading global impact asset manager. Rafael has also acted as Partner at the Brazilian sustainable finance company NINT ERM, where, among other projects, he led a large climate-related regional professional investors coalition.

Rafael is a CFA and CAIA Charterholder, he holds an MSc in International and Monetary Economics from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and a BA in Economics from the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP (Brazil).