Vikram Raju

Head of Climate Investing | Private Credit & Equity
28 years industry experience

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Impact investors for over a decade, our approach is deliberately label-agnostic, focused on concrete impact while seeking to generate commercial private equity returns. Today, we continue to push the envelope questioning everything, from the scale of impact to the way to hold ourselves accountable.

Biography

Vikram Raju is a Managing Director and serves as Head of the 1GT Platform and Head of Climate Investing for the Private Credit & Equity division of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (Morgan Stanley IM). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley IM to set up the impact investing platform in 2014, Vikram was the Climate Funds Lead at the IFC/World Bank Group. Previously, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and a portfolio manager with Lazard Frères. Vikram is a past Chair of the Impact Council at the Global Private Capital Association and was previously an adjunct faculty member with the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Vikram received Masters degrees in Finance and International Affairs from Bombay and Columbia University, respectively. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Vikram is a member of the
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions Team

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Strategies

Strategy Name	Description
Private Equity Climate Investing	Private equity investments that offer financial return prospects and demonstrable and measurable positive environmental impact.