Robert van Zwieten’s professional experience spans global financial markets, emerging markets investing, sustainable development, just energy transition, and governance. He is a Founding Partner of Route17, an advisory collaborative working with asset owners, asset managers, and multilateral organizations on SDG finance, climate finance, blended finance, private capital mobilization into development, and creating new markets. He is also a Fellow of the Climate Policy Initiative, a Senior Advisor to the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, and an Ambassador of the World Benchmarking Alliance. He also serves on three corporate boards and is an advisor to several private capital investment funds in Asia and Africa focused on climate and gender. He is a Senior Advisor to the Blended Finance Lab at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Fellow of the Transition Investment Lab (TIL) at New York University Stern School Abu Dhabi. He is a recognized thought leader in sustainable finance and has co-authored articles about sovereign wealth funds and blended finance. He was the President and CEO of EMPEA (renamed GPCA), the global industry association for private capital in emerging markets, representing an aggregate $5 trillion in AUM. Before this, he served as a Director of the Private Sector Capital Markets Division at Asian Development Bank. This followed more than two decades in senior executive positions in global financial markets in Europe, the United States, and Asia, successively with firms such as ABN AMRO Bank, GE Capital and GE Energy, Lehman Brothers, and Singapore Exchange. He holds his MBA degree from University of Chicago Booth School of Business, his LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School, and his JD and MA degrees from Leiden University in the Netherlands. A dual citizen of the US and the Netherlands, he currently lives in, and works from, the Philippines.