Ray Dhirani

Ray is a sustainable finance professional and leads the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)’s capital markets global programme. Practically, this means he leads the ASC and MSC’s interactions with banks, investors, and policy makers on blue finance. Decision useful data and the use of ASC and MSC to help with the finance sector’s adherence to the evolving regulatory landscape is another area of Ray’s focus. He joined MSC and ASC in 2024 after working for Tribe Impact Capital and after a decade at WWF, the global environmental NGO. At Tribe, Ray headed the impact management function, and, at WWF, he led the UK’s sustainable finance team. During his time at Tribe and WWF, Ray worked across areas such as climate change, forests, oceans, and biodiversity finance.

Ray was instrumental in the production of Our Planet: Too Big to Fail, a multi award winning film produced by Silverback Films, focussed on what the finance sector can do to help safeguard our natural world – both on land and at sea.

Previously, Ray spent eight years in the global markets division of Merrill Lynch in New York specializing in foreign exchange and short interest rates. He led senior relationships with hedge fund and real money clients from around the world and, later, also made markets and held risk positions for the Bank.

Ray holds a BSc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a MSc. in Environment & Development from the London School of Economics. He has sat on two non-executive boards – Parmenion’s Ethical Oversight Committee as well as WHEB Asset Management’s Advisory Committee. He currently serves as a parent governor for the Pirbright Village Primary School in the UK.