Rumi Mahmood

Rumi Mahmood is Research Director at the MSCI Sustainability Institute, overseeing research across capital markets and applied finance. He was previously head of fund research for MSCI ESG Research. He joined MSCI from J.P. Morgan (Nutmeg Investments), where he was head of fund research and oversaw fund selection and multi-asset ESG integration in active and passive portfolios. Rumi has also worked at BNY Mellon in structuring funds, and at UNICEF, where he researched the impact of clean water infrastructure on social mobility. He began his career as an engineer at Shell, focusing on carbon capture and storage in the North Sea. Rumi received his master’s in engineering from the University of Manchester.