Thomas Brigandi, CFA, is a Lead Analyst in the Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Group at a Credit Rating Agency (CRA), where he is responsible for a portfolio of 34 power, toll-road, airport, port, water, wastewater, natural gas pipeline and project finance credits that collectively have over $15 billion of debt outstanding. Brigandi also serves on a CRA’s public pension steering committee, ESG Americas working group and formerly served on the veteran recruiting sub-committee. Brigandi previously worked at the ~$200bn NYC Pension Fund, where he focused on energy and natural resources and reported directly to the chief investment officer. Brigandi is Chair of the Board of Directors of the CFA Society New York (CFANY), one of the largest CFA Institute Society globally. Brigandi, the CFA Institute Inaugural Global Outstanding Young Leader and CFANY’s 2016 Benjamin Graham Distinguished Service Award recipient, has organized over 90 in-person CFA Society conferences globally that were attended by over 16,000 investment professionals, in addition to over 10 virtual conferences that reached an audience of over 2,000 participants. These events featured over 300 senior asset owner and investment consultant speakers who represent organizations that collectively oversee or advise on more than $70 trillion in fiduciary assets, in addition to over 200 senior asset manager speakers who represent firms that collectively manage in excess of $30 trillion in assets. Brigandi, the founder of CFANY’s Asset Owner Series, Global Policymakers Series, Emerging and Frontier Market Series, Financial Services Employment Outlook Series, Putting Beneficiaries First Series and Global Infrastructure Conference Series, leads a team of over 500 investment professional volunteers globally. While serving as the Director of Global Volunteers of the American Foundation for African Children’s Education, Brigandi organized the NASDAQ Closing Bell Ceremony on September 23, 2011, hosted for the President of Sierra Leone. Brigandi maintains over 13,000 connections ‎on LinkedIn and holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance, Accounting and Economics from the Macaulay Honors College (MHC) at the City University of New York. Brigandi received the college’s inaugural Alumni Pioneer Award and serves on the MHC Foundation Board of Directors as Treasurer.