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In partnership with UNEP FI, Climate Action will host the 6th annual Sustainable Investment Forum Europe in Paris on 09 May 2023. The forum’s mission is to support European and global action for an equitable and just transition in sustainable investing.
The Forum will provide the medium to foster solutions for sustainable investors as they grapple with challenging terrain caused by the practical challenges of new regulations, a global energy crisis, greenwashing, and more.
Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2023 will tackle the crucial topics facing our community through panel debates, keynotes
and fireside chats.
Should European asset owners be employing an engage-to-change approach?
Are recent developments in the use of Blockchain/ AI and data mining enabling responsible investors to make more informed decisions?
How do we move forward from COP27? Allocators of capital have a critical role in shaping a more sustainable and inclusive future.
The Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2022 is available to watch on-demand. Catch up on updates from the NetZero Asset Owners Alliance, panels on pension funds & ESG, and more.
Sustainable Investment Forum Europe brings together leading investors and investment managers, banks, multi-laterals, policymakers, think-tanks and NGOs from across Europe.
Joël PROHIN (56) heads the investment management department of Caisse des Dépôts (CDC) within the Asset Management Division. He is responsible for ca. 225 bn€ of AuM, invested in fixed income, equities, real estate, private equity, infrastructures and forestry, mostly managed internally. He manages 5 asset management teams (85 people in staff). He is also member of the French institutional investors association (Af2i) Strategic Committee on behalf of CDC and head of the Responsible investment commission of this association.
Before joining CDC in 2011, Joël was head of investment strategy division in Allianz France. He worked beforehand in ALM, both in the insurance sector (AGF) and in the banking sector (Crédit National).
Joël studied economics, finance and statistics; he graduated in 1988 from ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique) and from University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Liesel van Ast is Deputy Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), which works with a network of banks, insurers and investors to accelerate the economic transition towards a sustainable and inclusive economy. Ms van Ast oversees financial sector engagement, regional coordination and capacity building for financial institutions to implement global sustainability frameworks and the UN-convened net-zero alliances for banks, insurers and asset owners. Ms van Ast also supports Ligia Noronha, the UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office at UNEP, to help align the financial system with the goals of UN Paris Agreement, the 2030 Agenda and the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. She is also a member of the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures Stewardship Council.
Magnus Billing, CEO of Alecta. Alecta provides agreed occupational pensions. Alecta’s assets under management amount to approximately appr USD 130 billion. Alecta is owned by approximately 2,6 million private customers and 35,000 corporate clients.
Magnus Billing was, prior to joining Alecta, CEO, NASDAQ Nordics and Baltic Markets. Within NASDAQ he previously held the position as Chief Legal Counsel and Senior Vice President of NASDAQ Group, Inc., and responsible for legal and market surveillance operations in Europe. Mr. Billing has been working in the financial industry since early 2001. Prior to the merger between NASDAQ and OMX AB (publ), Magnus Billing was the General Counsel of OMX and led the negotiations around the consolidation of the OMX Nordic Exchanges.
Magnus Billing was a member of the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on sustainable finance that the EU Commission appointed and gave the task to come up with recommendations for how to create a sustainable EU financial market. HLEG produced its recommendations in the beginning of 2018 and it created the basis for the EU Commission’s Action Plan published during the Spring of 2018.
Magnus Billing is chairman of the Board of Directors for Stockholm Sustainable Finance Center (a center bridging academic research on sustainable finance to the financial markets and their stakeholders). The center was established and is supported by the Swedish Government, Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm Environment Institute.
Magnus Billing was previously a member of the NASDAQ Listing Committee, secretary of the Board of Directors, NASDAQ Nordic Foundation, and served as director of Federation of European Securities Exchanges, Swedish House of Finance and as an alternate director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Code Board of Directors. He holds a degree in law from Stockholm University.
Martin Spolc is the Head of the Sustainable Finance unit in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Financial Services. Prior to his current role, he was the Head of the Capital Markets Union unit, the Economic analysis unit, Deputy Head of the Banking unit and Assistant to the Director General, directly involved in developing the Banking Union and other key projects in the area of financial services aiming at restoring financial stability since the crisis. Before joining the Commission, he had worked at risk management consultancy and the banking sector. He is the holder of the CFA and FRM designations and member of the CFA Institute and Global Association of Risk Professionals.
Olivier Rousseau is executive director at Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), France’s pension reserve fund, where he also chairs the asset manager selection committee. Before joining FRR in 2011, he was attached to the French Embassy in Sweden as an economic advisor, a position he took up after two years on the board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Rousseau began his career at the French Treasury, eventually joining BNP Paribas where he spent 11 years working in international banking and finance in Paris, Tokyo, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney offices. He graduated from the French National School of Administration (ENA) in 1986. He also holds a degree in political sciences and master degrees in law and economics from the University of Aix-en-Provence.
“It was great to follow the work of UNEP and to have had opportunities for bilateral meetings with leading industry figures such as Eric Usher.“
“A must attend event for the responsible investment community.”
Sachin Vankalas, General Manager, LUX Flag
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