Rim Azirar


Deputy Head of Investments, Emerging Market Energy Transition, Mirova

Rim Azirar

Rim heads the investment team at Mirova – an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers – in charge of the emerging markets energy transition topics. With 15 years’ experience in leading transactions in emerging markets, she is currently focusing on deploying the Mirova Gigaton strategy, a circa $300m vehicle providing medium and long term debt to renewable energy companies and projects in emerging markets, across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Rim joined SunFunder in 2018 to lead transactions in West Africa, covering both off-grid solar and other productive use, microgrid and commercial & industrial solar opportunities in the region and beyond.

She was previously at responsAbility Investments, where she worked for more than four years completing sustainable agriculture investments in Africa and Asia. Before that she started her career at BNP Paribas in the structured finance department.

Rim was born in Morocco, speaks five languages and holds bachelor and master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris.