Deepti Jerath

Head, Institutional Investors and Carbon Markets Lead at Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)

Deepti Jerath heads the UK region and is also Global Head for Institutional Investors, at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group. In addition, she leads the Carbon markets strategy and origination for MIGA worldwide; and is working to promote innovative applications of MIGA’s products to support carbon markets. 

Prior to joining MIGA, she spent most of her career in Investment Banking, most recently as Head of UK Credit & Equity Solutions at JP Morgan Chase & Co. Through her banking career, she has extensive experience of working with institutional investors as well as UK corporates across structured finance, secured funding and derivatives. She has also gained unique insights from an investor perspective, having led Private Debt origination at Phoenix Group, which is the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business.

She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and BA (Hons) in Economics from Lady Shri Ram, Delhi University.