Bali Kochar

Bali Kochar is a managing director in the Structured Finance team based in London that covers the UK, Middle East and Africa regions within the IMI Corporate and Investment Banking Division of Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank.  

He has three decades of project, multilateral and export credit finance as well as fixed income experience, during which he has provided financing to projects costing close to $100 billion, primarily in the energy and infrastructure sectors, 85 per cent of which were in emerging markets. 

He has served as a charity trustee, on the executive committee of the Renewable Energy Solutions for Africa Foundation, as a member of the Competitiveness Committee in the CBI and is the current chair of the Business Advisory Committee in the Association of Foreign Banks. 

He was also a visiting lecturer teaching geopolitics at the TIAS Business School in the Netherlands. His research interest is in developing de-risking instruments for African renewable energy investments and the nexus between governments, industry and finance in general. 

Bali has a degree in economics from the University of Sussex and received his MBA from INSEAD in France