Lida Preyma
Role: Associate
Site: CDL-Paris
Stream: Climate
With over 25 years of experience in the Canadian capital markets, Lida is the founder and CEO of Cēlandaire Capital, facilitating capital introduction for corporate climate projects coupled with advisory on corporate investment readiness, global policy and carbon markets. Her previous experience comprises delivering on strategic initiatives which included co-leading for capital markets the integration of a multi-billion-dollar US bank acquisition for a major Canadian bank. She was also managing director of corporate citizenship at a multinational auto parts manufacturer and part of the management team that built Canada’s first alternative trading platform and stock exchange.
Since 2015, Lida has been a member of various B20 taskforces and the Women in Business Action Council. She currently sits on the Finance and Infrastructure Taskforce providing policy recommendations to the G20 leaders. She also sits on the Sustainable Business COP30’s Transition Finance and Investment Working Group, which aims to catalyze private sector efforts to enable solutions on relevant topics for COP30.
She regularly speaks at international government and business conferences and most recently spoke at the UN’s Financing for Development’s International Business Forum in Sevilla, Spain, the Canadian Securities Exchange’s Summit on Responsible Investment and Chatham House’s CFC programme on The Just Transition.
Lida holds an HBA from the University of Toronto with a specialist in international political economy, an MBA in international business from the University of Cumbria and the Women’s Leadership Program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She has been a member of the board of directors for Invest Toronto and Transparency International (Canada).