Kanwal Rathi is a Senior Associate on Convergence’s Market Acceleration and Design Funding Team. She has over 8 years of experience in investing, including 6 in the field of impact investing. Prior to joining Convergence, Kanwal worked as a Senior Investment Officer at Enabling Qapital, AG and managed a portfolio of clean cooking and carbon finance transactions in Sub-Saharan Africa. She also previously worked at Social Investment Managers and Advisors, LLC. There she specialized in the underwriting and due diligence of structured debt investments in off-grid solar and microfinance sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and designing of new innovative funds and projects.

Kanwal began her career in Pakistan in Corporate Finance at a leading logistics player before switching to the impact investing space. She holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from Institute of Business Administration, Karachi and is a CFA Charterholder.