Bella is the Co-CEO and a founding member of the Impact Investing Institute. She spearheads the Institute’s Challenge Lab, developing fresh solutions to mobilise private finance in addressing critical societal challenges, such as revitalising left-behind communities and enabling a just transition to net zero.

Bella’s career spans the non-profit sector, investment banking, and central government. Bella joined the Institute from the UK government’s Inclusive Economy Unit, where she led key initiatives to scale impact investing – including pensions reform and the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on growing a culture of social impact investing in the UK.

Prior to this, Bella worked for UBS Investment Bank in New York and London in the equities trading business. She began her professional journey in the charity sector and holds a bachelor’s degree in theology.