Research at IIX has until now sat within Government Relations. IIX is establishing Research as a standalone department reporting directly to the CEO. The Director will take over IIX's existing research portfolio - policy analysis, market studies, and the evidence base behind IIX's engagement with governments, multilaterals, and corporates — and build it into a department with its own agenda, standards, team, and budget.

The department's work spans two connected disciplines. Policy research informs and shapes regulation, capital markets development, sustainable finance frameworks, and gender and climate policy in the markets where IIX operates. Market research sizes, maps, and diagnoses capital markets, sustainable and blended finance flows, and investment opportunities across emerging markets, for use by IIX, its partners, and its clients.

The primary audiences are governments and regulators, multilateral and bilateral development institutions, and corporates.



The research must be rigorous and independent enough to carry weight with a finance ministry or a development finance institution's board, and practical enough to move a policy, a transaction, or an investment decision.

The role works closely with Government Relations, which continues to own IIX's government relationships, and with IIX's Data Platform team, which holds the impact and financial data infrastructure the department draws on. The mandate is IIX-wide: it covers IIX's current footprint and leads the build-out of research capability into current markets as IIX expands into them.

Key Responsibilities

Department Build & Transition

• Lead the transition of research work, staff, and live commitments from Government Relations into the current department without disrupting ongoing government and multilateral engagements
• Define the department's operating model: scope, a process for taking in and prioritizing research requests, and working interfaces with Government Relations, Business Development, Advisory,

📌 Director, Policy Mumbai (India)
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