Karin Berardo

Karin is the Director of Sustainable Debt at NatureVest, the in-house impact investment team at the Nature Conservancy focusing on sourcing and structuring investment products. Karin has over 20 years of experience structuring investment vehicles and managing risk for Stumpf Energy, M+W Group, CleanPath Ventures, Municipal Mortgage & Equity and Accenture. Karin also led research on sustainable natural resources management and policy in the Brazilian Amazon in a partnership between IMAZON and the Ford Foundation. Karin completed her Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago in 1991, and received a dual Masters in Public Policy with a focus on taxation and public finance from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and an International MBA from the Booth School of Business in 2000.