Brian O'Hanlon

Brian O'Hanlon is a principal in Rocky Mountain Institute’s Global Climate Finance program. He leads the the program’s work on climate alignment. His team works with financial institutions to ensure they have the data, frameworks, tools and agreements in place to enable the decarbonization of their portfolios and investment decisions.

Brian is also leading RMI’s work on accelerating the development of green banks at the national, sub-national, and city levels.

Previously, Brian served as Managing Director of Business Development for OPIC’s Global Energy Group where he led the group’s origination and account management for financing power projects in developing countries. His team has developed a $5 billion pipeline of potential projects leading to over $1 billion in commitments to finance since 2016. Brian also spent seven years leading the U.S. Department of Commerce’s efforts to develop markets for U.S. renewable energy companies with a particular focus on China and India.