Managing Director, Head of Global Sustainable Finance,
Bank of America
Karen Fang is Managing Director, Head of Global Sustainable Finance at Bank of America (BofA). Formerly, she was the head of Global Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Cross Asset Trading, and the head of Americas FICC Sales & Solutions prior to that.
She is a member of the BofA Environmental, Social and Governance committee, the Sustainable Markets Committee, as well as the firm wide Asian Leadership Council. Karen chairs the BofA Sustainable Finance Council, and is a founding member of the 1t.org US Steering Council, a public-private partnership to advance reforestation and carbon finance initiatives.
Previously, Karen was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where she was the head of the Pension, Endowment and Foundation Cross Asset Solutions Group. She has held senior positions in derivatives structuring, including at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo and Deutsche Bank in London.
Karen was named one of Fortune’s “40 under 40”and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF), and named one of Business Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business. She was chosen by Investment Dealers’ Digest as one of the “40 under 40” bankers and is also a recipient of the Women’s Bond Club of New York’s “Rising Star Award.” Karen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo.