Ruslan is a senior at New York University Abu Dhabi, majoring in BOS. He is particularly interested in sustainable finance and AI, with a focus on growing the ESG mandate in the UAE. At the Transition Investment Lab, he leads data collection and analysis on investors and funds to support the training of the ImpactX scoring model. He also contributed to research on the role of DFIs and MDBs in private equity. Before joining TIL, he interned as an investment banking analyst at ADCB and won the CFA Institute Research Challenge nationally.