Joe Leavenworth Bakali is Global Manager, Financial Structuring & Advisory at CPI. He leads investment structuring for climate finance vehicles through CPI programs, including the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, and advisory engagements with external partners. His role spans strategy, vehicle design and development, fundraising, and stakeholder management.

Joe brings a background in private markets investing spanning asset classes, geographies, and sectors. Prior to CPI, he worked at a US-based institutional investment firm and at an impact-oriented venture capital fund making equity investments across East Africa and India. He also has experience leading programmatic and consulting engagements with major donor governments, DFIs, and corporations. This includes managing a portfolio of initiatives under the USAID INVEST mechanism focused on mobilizing private capital in EMDEs. At CPI, Joe also led the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility, a $13 million program delivered in partnership with Convergence Blended Finance that has mobilized more than $300 million in capital for mitigation and adaptation solutions to date.

Joe holds an MSc in International Political Economy with Distinction from the London School of Economics and a BA in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College.