Carlotta Saporito

She has over fifteen years of experience in impact investing, with a core dual mandate of generating financial returns alongside positive social and/​or environmental outcomes.

Before joining J.P. Morgan in 2022, she worked at British International Investment (BII, formerly known as CDC Group), where she was a Director and Head of Fund Solutions, leading a team identifying liquidity and value-addition pathways for underperforming investments in the BII portfolio. Prior to this role, she was an Investment Director on BII’s Intermediated Equity team. In this role, Carlotta invested in and managed a portfolio of funds and co-investments across emerging markets, with a focus on Africa and South Asia.

Before BII, Carlotta worked at the African Development Bank, based in Tunisia, where she invested in private equity strategies across Africa and developed some of the first blended finance structures to mobilize capital into the continent at scale.

Carlotta began her career at the World Bank and International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C. In this role, she worked with governments in South Asia (Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and Africa (Ghana and Malawi) on Financial Sector Development programs and projects, including as part of the joint World Bank – International Monetary Fund Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). She also co-authored a book on South Asian bond market development based on her field research.

Carlotta holds an MA(Hons) from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and an MA from Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Affairs.