Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, FRM, Certified Ecologist, LEED AP

Gabriel Thoumi, President and Founder, Responsible Alpha, is an award-winning sustainable finance research manager with over 20 years’ experience leading scientifically rigorous, replicable, and scalable approaches for capital deployment and impact. He has worked with financial institutions, banks, asset managers, corporations, civil society, and governments in more than 30 countries focusing on financing and modeling the necessary energy transition and nature transition pathways for a sustainable future.

Since 2022, he has spoken at or moderated more than 140 events including TV appearances, WEF Davos, CFA Institute, NYC Climate Week, and global scientific forums. He has published more than 100 sustainable investment research reports and sits on global boards and advisory committees including the S&P Global Sustainable Finance Scientific Council. Mr. Thoumi lectures on sustainable finance at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Applied Sciences, Upper Austria.

For 8 years, he was previously a political appointee supporting Washington DC regional energy transition, nature conservation, air quality, climate modeling, and sustainable urban planning. Finally, as a trained scientist, he has experience at sea conducting oceanographic research and on land assessing forest and biodiversity health.

Mr. Thoumi has an MBA, MSc in Sustainable Systems, and a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development from the University of Michigan where he was both a Consortium and Erb Institute fellow. He has a MIM in International Finance from the University of St. Thomas where he was a NSHMBA fellow. He also has a B.A. in Art History and Archaeology and a B.A. in Studio Arts from the University of Maryland where he was Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

In his free time, he enjoys mountaineering, ocean sailing, running marathons, and spending time with his family.