Neeshad Shafi

Stakeholder Engagement Manager

Neeshad Shafi is Stakeholder Engagement Manager at Offset8 Capital, an asset manager registered in the Abu Dhabi Global Market that is building a carbon investment fund with a target size of at least USD 250 million, the first of its kind in the Middle East. He is one of the region's best-known youth voices on climate action: in 2015 he co-founded the Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar, a youth-led non-profit environmental association, and served as its Executive Director. In 2019 he was named in Apolitical's list of the 100 most influential people in climate policy. He has been a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, a member of the steering committee of UNESCO's Youth Climate Action Network (YoU-CAN) and UNEP Youth Regional Facilitator for the Middle East, and was named a UN CC:Learn Champion in 2022. He holds a master's degree in environmental engineering.