Mina Amin (she/her) joined The Overbrook Foundation as Associate Director, Environment in 2026. In this role, she manages the Foundation’s environmental grantmaking portfolio, supporting organizations working on nature conservation and climate solutions.

Previously, Mina worked on financing climate solutions in the Global South at British International Investment (BII) and Capital for Sustainability (C4S). At BII, the UK government’s impact investing institution, she designed and implemented institution-wide strategies for preventing deforestation in agriculture investments and aligning agriculture and industry investments with net-zero emissions pathways. She also spearheaded BII’s pioneering transition finance work to enable the firm to invest in higher-emitting companies and projects with credible plans to decarbonize.

At C4S, a philanthropic fund mobilizing private capital into climate solutions across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, she developed a grant portfolio that enabled local financial institutions to conduct more climate lending and supported innovative capital mobilization mechanisms.

Earlier in her career, she built the democracy grantmaking portfolio at Leadership Now, implemented sustainability solutions for Fortune 500 companies at ENGIE Impact, and advised philanthropies and development institutions across energy, agriculture, and health at Dalberg.

Mina holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oxford, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. She is a fellow of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, Terra.do, and Emergence Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her wonderful husband Taha.