Amir Chireh Mehr
Amir Chireh Mehr is a Managing Director at Pivotal180. He teaches project finance and financial structuring for climate and energy projects. Amir develops and delivers course content and provides transaction-focused consulting.
Amir has over a decade of experience across clean energy, infrastructure, and climate finance. He served as Head of Project Finance at Elemental Impact, where he led catalytic capital design, financial structuring, transaction risk management, and the successful raise of $132.5 million from the U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. He also structured more than $10 million in catalytic venture-stage impact investments, oversaw asset management for a portfolio of 150+ companies, and advised the nation’s largest green bank on over $400 million in debt capital commitments.
Earlier in his career, Amir worked across private equity, reverse merger, and project finance transactions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, raising more than $1 billion in equity capital for solar, wind, and electric vehicle charging companies. He has held senior roles at Radial Power and Climate Real Impact Solutions (CRIS), and investment roles at General Electric and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund.
Amir is an Adjunct Lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches Renewable Energy Project Finance. He lives in New York City and, when not working, enjoys sports and outdoor activities, poetry (especially classical Persian poetry), and overly ambitious gardening projects. His favorite Excel shortcut is CTRL + 1.
