Hiranya Fernando is a Senior Associate in the Capital Markets team at the World Resources Institute. Her research focuses primarily on the financial and competitive implications of climate change and other environmental issues. She works with several investment banks on various environmental finance topics such as financing clean technology deployment at scale. Previously, Hiranya worked at the World Bank on climate and energy issues, including the Community Development Carbon Fund which finances CDM projects in the world’s poorest countries. She also has previous international banking experience with Merrill Lynch and Citigroup in Switzerland.

Hiranya is a Swiss national, originally hailing from Sri Lanka. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and a Masters of Laws and a B.Sc. in Government & Law from the London School of Economics.