Abyd Karmali is a Managing Director, Environmental Business Advisory at Bank of America based in London. From 2007-2014, he served Merrill Lynch's (subsenquently BofA ML) Global Head of Carbon Markets. In 2014, he became part of the team supporting the bank's broader capital deployment commitment to mobilise $1.5 trillion in sustainable finance by 2030. He has worked for more than 30 years on climate change and sustainable finance and was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for these efforts in the Queen's New Year's Honours List for 2019. In 2022, Financial News included Abyd its in inaugural list of "The 50 Most Influential in Sustainable Finance" and he received the same accolade in 2023.

Before joing the financial sector in 2007, he was a partner in a management consulting firm in Washington DC, Toronto, and London where he advised companies on their climate strategy and also spent two years with the United Nations Environment Programme in Paris as Energy and Climate Change Programme Officer. From 2013 to 2015, Mr Kamali was selected to serve as one of the two inaugural private sector representatives to the Board of the UN Green Climate Fund in Songdo, South Korea.

His current advisory roles includes the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, and the Climate Advisory Group for philanthropic coalition Climate Leadership Initiative. He serves on the Judging Panel for the Stainable Development category of the King's Award for Enterprise, the Board of the International Emiisions Trading Association, India Advisory Board of NGO The Climate Group, and the Board of NatureFinance. He holds an MS in Techinology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)..