Murat Basarir is the Associate Vice President of Enterprise Sustainable Finance at TD Bank Group. He works with teams across TD to ideate, structure and move forward ESG initiatives that support TD’s Climate Action Plan. Through his leadership, the Bank has developed the internal infrastructure and executive support for a holistic approach to sustainable finance and has achieved milestones such as developing TD’s $500B Sustainable and Decarbonization Finance Target by 2030. Before he joined TD, he was part of various international sustainable finance focused initiatives, such as launching UK’s first wireless charged electric bus and working at Canada’s first retail green bond issuer. Prior to his work in sustainable finance, he led a nationwide energy efficiency campaign that was voted by the UK public as the Best Campaign at the Climate Week Awards. Murat holds a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University. He also has an MPhil in Engineering from Cambridge University and has completed the Ignite program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
