Ingrid Holmes is Deputy CEO of the Green Finance Institute. She joined GFI in 2021 from Federated Hermes, where she was a Director in the Responsibility Team and led the development of the firm’s first Climate Change Policy. She previously held roles at dedicated low carbon asset manager Climate Change Capital, and also climate diplomacy thinktank E3G, where she established and built their Sustainable Finance Programme. She also held roles as an Adviser in the UK Parliament and in the UK’s environment department DEFRA.

She has 20 years of experience working on environmental policy and sustainable finance. She has previously served as a Member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and ran the Secretariat for the Green Finance Taskforce, which led to the establishment of the Green Finance Institute.

In 2026, Ingrid launched the GFI Transition Finance Lab and now serves as its Chair. The GFI Lab brings together senior leaders from across the financial sector to develop and advance practical solutions to help mobilise capital towards the transition. Her abiding passion is the development of institutional, policy and financial solutions to scale investment into climate change solutions.

Ingrid has a BSc in Biological Sciences (Hons Zoology) from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London.