Stefanie Fairholme is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer for Capital Solutions at British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution. She oversees the strategy, portfolio construction and monitoring of all catalytic capital investment pools, with a mandate to deliver impact in nascent industries, pioneering business models and innovative financial structures that mobilise private finance into emerging and frontier economies.

Prior to BII, Stefanie held various investment leadership roles at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) and The Rockefeller Foundation. In the earlier half of her career, Stefanie spent more than a decade in investment banking in New York and London.