Gavin Wilson is CEO of the IFC Asset Management Company. Previously, Mr. Wilson was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs, which he joined in 1996. He was responsible for senior relationships with industrial, diversified, and sovereign fund clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He co-headed Goldman’s EMEA Industrials Group and was earlier head of the firm's New Markets investment banking execution team, focused on the emerging markets of EMEA.

His transaction experience covers principal investing, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, privatizations, joint ventures, structured finance, corporate restructuring, and debt, equity, and hybrid issuance. He has worked on assignments in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Mr. Wilson began his career at McKinsey and Company. He joined the World Bank Group as a Young Professional in 1988, working in the Bank’s Africa Region and then for six years in IFC's Corporate Finance Services Department, where he was a Senior Investment Officer. He subsequently served as a Special Advisor at the Bank of England before joining Goldman Sachs.

Mr. Wilson is British and holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.