2026-2027 Committee

Meet our team!

Our 2026-2027 committee is comprised of a diverse background and experiences in the climate and sustainable finance space

Haruka Braun

Co-Chair

Haruka is an MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance candidate at Imperial Business School and serves as Co-Chair. Having grown up in the US, Japan and Malaysia, she is interested in how capital can accelerate climate innovation, strengthen the resilience of urban systems, and address the vulnerabilities exposed by climate disasters and energy shocks. Haruka holds a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and an MSc in Political Science and Political Economy from the London School of Economics. Prior to Imperial, she worked in real estate private equity at Victory Group.

Fabiola Sanabria Chaverri

Co-Chair

Fabiola is an MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance student at Imperial College Business School and a LATAM Future Leader Scholar. Raised in Costa Rica, she grew up surrounded by nature on her family’s conserved farmland near Cartago. Today, she is interested in how private capital can treat nature as investable infrastructure, scaling nature-based solutions and channeling finance into biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation. Fabiola holds a BA in Economics from New York University, where she was a Presidential Honors Scholar and wrote her honours thesis in environmental economics. Before joining Imperial, she spent nearly three years in Goldman Sachs' Capital Solutions Group, working on project finance, tax equity and sustainable banking financing transactions in New York before moving to London as an Associate on the EMEA Infrastructure Financing team.

Angus Horne

Co-Head of Strategy & Relations

Angus is an MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance student at Imperial Business School and serves as Co-Chair of Strategy & Relations. Angus is fascinated by the role of private capital in scaling climate solutions and accelerating the energy transition. Angus holds a BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Exeter. Before Imperial, Angus worked in tax and transactions at EY and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Azmyra Merchant

Co-Head of Strategy & Relations

Azmyra is an MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance candidate at Imperial Business School and Co-Head of Strategy at Positive Investment Imperial. Prior to Imperial, she spent eight years at ThirdWay Partners, most recently as Associate Director of the Africa Conservation & Communities Tourism Fund, where she led debt investments in conservation tourism businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa. Having grown up in Mozambique, she is interested in climate justice and how blended finance and private capital can support climate resilience, conservation and sustainable development across emerging markets. She holds a BA in Economics, with a Finance track, from New York University.

Olivia Timmermans

Co-Head of Strategy & Relations

Olivia is Co-Head of Strategy & Relations at Positive Investment Imperial. She studied Chemistry at Durham University and worked in R&D at AkzoNobel before joining Imperial to pursue an MSc in Climate Change, Management & Finance. She also co-founded PubTalks, a series of events bringing science and society together in London Pubs. She is particularly interested in how investment can help scale climate technologies and accelerate the energy transition, bridging the gap between scientific innovation and capital.

Philip (Pip) Tunstall

Co-Head of Events

Pip is Co-Head of Events at Positive Investment Imperial and a Grantham Scholar on the MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance at Imperial College London. He spent eight years as a professional ballet dancer, including with Polish National Ballet, before transitioning back to university to study economics. Whilst at King’s, he co-led the LGBTQ+ Society as Co-President and Treasurer, alongside working as a Comprehensive Pilates Instructor at Third Space London. Pip loves bringing people together and is excited to connect students with industry professionals to explore sustainable investment and the energy transition.

Stella Ervin

Co-Head of Events

Stella is an MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance candidate at Imperial Business School and serves as Co-Head of Events. She is interested in how financial institutions can integrate climate and transition risk into investment decisions, direct capital towards climate solutions, and help early-stage clean technologies scale. Stella holds a BS in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed additional study in environmental and development economics through a year-long study abroad program at the London School of Economics. Prior to Imperial, she worked in impact investing at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, climate consulting at ERM, and clean-energy finance at the Clean Energy Fund of the Carolinas.

Feyi Bello

Head of Treasury & Sponsorship

Feyi Bello is Head of Sponsorship and Treasury for P+II and an MSc CCMF candidate at Imperial. She spent time on Citi’s sales and trading floor in commodities derivatives sales across oil, gas, power and carbon (voluntary and compliance) in EMEA, including work on the $100M World Bank Plastic Waste Reduction-Linked Bond, and in Global Markets Risk. Before Citi, she was a management consultant across the resources and financial services sectors, working on bid management, strategy, and resolution and resolvability frameworks for Tier 1 banks. Her focus remains on commodities as a whole, with particular interest in renewable energy, critical minerals, and emerging markets. Outside work, she loves exploring music and culture from around the world, Afro-Caribbean especially, and travelling. A Liverpool FC fan who plays football and follows women’s basketball, she has also helped organise community efforts to make winter sports more inclusive.

Michael Botiz

Co-Head of Research

Michael is Canadian-Romanian, calling Toronto home for most of his life before crossing the pond to London this year. After graduating from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Commerce back in 2021, he has spent the better part of the last 5 years in banking and mid-market M&A roles. He is here at Imperial in the CCMF programme to learn all things sustainability, pivot his career, and tackle the climate crisis head on through his practice. Outside of work and study he loves to ride his bike, go to jazz shows, read classic novels, and as a Canadian of course play ice hockey.

Fiona Ee

Co-Head of Research

Fiona is an MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance candidate at Imperial College London. She serves as Co-Head of Research and Education in P+II’s committee. She is particularly interested in how financing decisions shape the pace of renewable energy deployment; her work experience spans energy startups and large corporates, including modelling at an energy-investment startup, and in-house sustainability operations at Marina Bay Sands. Previously, Fiona studied BASc Arts and Sciences at UCL, majoring in sustainable energy and data science.

Eleonora Fagnani

Co-Head of Marketing & Communications

Eleonora is an MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance candidate at Imperial College Business School and serves as Co-Head of Marketing and Communications for Positive Investment Imperial. She previously worked for nearly four years in strategic communications for circular and B-Corp companies in the built environment, manufacturing and design across the UK and the USA. Eleonora holds a BA in International Relations from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She is passionate about accelerating the green transition through clean technology, urban innovation, and connecting high-potential startups with relevant investment. Beyond Imperial, Eleonora enjoys spending time outdoors and doing sports, including swimming, cycling and running.

Bela Filstrup

Co-Head of Marketing & Communications

Bela is an MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance candidate at Imperial College London and Co-Head of Marketing & Communications for P+II. She holds a BA in Earth & Planetary Science and Environmental Policy from Northwestern University, and previously interned at Ara Partners, a private equity firm focused on industrial decarbonisation, where she worked in government affairs. She is passionate about the intersection of climate science, policy, and finance, particularly financing decarbonisation pathways and carbon capture technology. Outside of school, Bela enjoys visiting museums, hiking, and experimenting with new coffee recipes.