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Funlola is a professional with interests that lie at the intersection of technological innovation, climate change and emerging markets. Funlola currently serves as Investment Analyst at the McKnight Foundation where he helps steward the foundation's $3 billion endowment. He focuses on the private capital portfolio as it relates to venture, buyout, and growth opportunities. Funlola also serves as Africa Advisor at Concordia where he co-founded Concordia Africa and focuses on program implementation and social-impact driven public-private partnerships.
Previously, Funlola served as Investor Lead at CDP, an organization focused on ESG integration into the financial markets. As Investor Lead he advised leading financial institutions and financial sponsors on sustainable infrastructure financing and investment risks and opportunities related to climate, water-scarcity, and soft-commodity deforestation.
Funlola's civic and nonprofit activities include board service at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Land Institute, Nexus Community Partners, the Advisory Board for Entrepreneurship at Cornell University, NationSwell Council member, and is a member of the Robert S. Brookings Society. He was recognized as a 2021 Bush Fellow. Funlola was educated at Cornell University and Columbia University.
