2023 Speakers

Antonio Celeste, Director, Sustainable Product Management at Qontigo, which was created through a merger of Axioma, STOXX and DAX by the Deutsche Börse Group.

With over 16 years of experience in the ESG industry, Antonio is responsible for sustainable research and the enhancement of STOXX’s and DAX’s suite of sustainable indices.

Before joining Qontigo in YEAR, Antonio worked at Lyxor and then Amundi, where he oversaw the development and promotion of the companies’ ESG ETF product range. His first job in the ETF industry was at Natixis Investment Managers (Ossiam), as Sales Director and Head of ESG Business Development, Smart Beta ETFs.

Earlier in his career, Antonio was Managing Director, Head of Sales EMEA at Sustainalytics for seven years. Prior to that, he worked as Head of Sales at Vigeo (now part of Moody’s).

He holds a degree in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin and an MBA from HEC Paris.

Camille Maclet works with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as Finance Sector Engagement Lead. In 2022, his primary focus was to catalyse the participation of financial organisations in COP15, in support of an ambitious COP agenda and outcomes. He now focusses on supporting policy development for the effective implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework within the financial sector.

He also supports Ms. Elizabeth Mrema, former Executive Secretary of the CBD and now Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, in her co-chairing of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.

Camille is a sustainable finance professional with specific interest in the integration of nature in financial policies.

In 2021 he supported with the TNFD transition team, in association with Global Canopy, contributing to the technical workplan of the TNFD ahead of its October 2021 launch.
He also collaborates with The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC), co-leading the company’s growth in the nature and finance space – with focus on biodiversity strategies, risk management, positive impact financing, and the strengthening of safeguards.

Before that, Camille worked for many years as Partner in Charge of Sustainable Finance with Environmental Resources Management (ERM). This has given him extensive experience of sustainability management across the range of ESG topics, from site operations to senior decision-making, in the context of project finance, private equity and development finance.

Camille’s 20 years of experience span across Europe, Africa, Latin America, with occasional projects in Asia. Besides his work on biodiversity finance policy development, he has hands-on industry experience, with focus on infrastructure, renewables and hydropower, agribusiness, extractives, and on applying international financing safeguards in sensitive environments.

Danielle leads IIGCC’s programme of work to support investors implement their net zero commitments & develop net zero strategies. This includes supporting the implementation of the Net Zero Investment Framework, and working with members to develop new tools and guidance such as that relating to climate solutions, data for net zero, and physical climate risk.
Danielle leads on IIGCC’s work, in close collaboration with members, in the area of adaptation and resilience. This includes the development of IIGCC’s Climate Resilience Investment Framework, which she presented and discussed with key stakeholders during speaking events at both New York Climate Week and COP28 in Egypt.

Danielle joined IIGCC in 2020 having previously worked in corporate sustainability consulting with companies across the built environment and retail sectors on sustainability strategy development and implementation of the TCFD recommendations. Having completed an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London, Danielle also spent time supporting the UNFCCC during international climate negotiations in Bonn.

David Carlin leads the TCFD and climate risk program for UNEP- Finance Initiative. He currently is running a pilot for nearly 50 global banks and investors on topics of climate scenarios, climate risk assessments, and climate governance. He is also a contributor to Forbes, where he writes about climate change and leadership.

Prior to joining UNEP-FI, he worked as a senior manager in Risk and Public Policy for Oliver Wyman Consulting and in Model Risk Management for PNC Bank. His background is in quantitative modeling and decision science.

He conducted research in financial decision-making at Carnegie Mellon University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College.

David Jackson, a British national, has over 30 years of experience in Local Development. He started his career as an urban planner in London in 1980s and later on ran a consulting company supporting local development in over 10 African and Asian countries. The beginning of his career at UNCDF was in the 1990s in Mozambique, where he designed and piloted a national system of local government finance for capital investment that was taken to scale by government. Since 2006, he worked as Decentralisation Advisor to the Government of Indonesia and UNDP. In 2009, he became Head of UNCDF Asia and Pacific office where he designed the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility, a global mechanism that enables local governments in the least developed countries to access climate finance for resilient investments. In May 2013, he was appointed Director of UNCDF’s Local Development Finance Practice in New York. In this position he manages portfolio of local development finance programmes with a focus on fiscal decentralization, infrastructure development, climate resilience grants, municipal finance
and private sector investments

Eila Kreivi is Director and Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor at the European Investment Bank since February 2022.

From April 2011 until end of January 2022, she headed the Capital Markets Department of the EIB, as its Director. Before that, she was the Head of Funding for the Americas, Asia & Pacific.
Between March 2018 and January 2022, she was an alternate member of the Board of Directors of the European Investment Fund (EIF).

Prior to joining the financing arm of the European Union in 1995, Eila Kreivi worked at the Union Bank of Finland and Société Générale, in Helsinki and in Paris.

She holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Abo Akademi in Finland. In addition to her native language of Finnish, she is fluent in English, French and Swedish.

Eila Kreivi chaired the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles in 2015-2018. She has represented the EIB at the EU High-level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance in 2017‑2018, established by the European Commission. Between 2018 and September 2020, she also represented the EIB at the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance created in 2018. Since October 2020, she is a member of the Platform on Sustainable Finance, an advisory body created by the European Commission.

In July 2020, she was elected as member of the Board of Directors of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).

Ms Elizabeth Press is Director of Planning and Programme Support in the Executive Office of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). She leads the Agency’s programme and strategy development and related activities in IRENA governing bodies. Ms Press represents IRENA in climate-focused organisations and initiatives and leads several special projects, including geopolitics of energy transitions. She also oversees diversification of the Agency’s resource base and is IRENA’s focal point in Europe.

Ms Press has served with IRENA since its inception in 2011. Before joining the Agency, she worked for some 18 years in development and peace and security, predominately with the United Nations. Ms Press served in Africa, Europe, Middle East, North America, and South-East Asia. She has an MA in Public Administration.

Francis Malige is the Managing Director, Head of Financial Institutions for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Since he took up his role in 2018, Mr. Malige has been leading investments with banks, insurance companies, non-bank financial institutions and capital market infrastructure firms across thirty-six economies over three continents. Notably he has led the EBRD’s response via the financial sector to the COVID crisis and the war on Ukraine.

He joined the EBRD in 2010 as a Director of Financial Institutions, covering the Eastern Europe, Western Balkans, Turkey and Southern & Eastern Mediterranean regions.

From 2014-2018 he served as the Managing Director for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, a region that encompasses Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – pioneering policy initiatives across these countries. In Ukraine, he led the EBRD through the difficult post-revolution period, to develop a number of initiatives blending investment and policy impact, including state[1]owned enterprise reform, the banking sector transformation and the Ukraine Reforms Architecture. At the request of Ukraine’s President, he served as a Board member for Privatbank after its nationalisation.

Before joining the EBRD, he was Managing Director for Corporate Development at BNP Paribas, focusing on bank acquisitions. His earlier career was in accounting and consulting at Arthur Andersen and McKinsey & Company, where he served clients in industry, high tech and construction, as well as financial services.

Mr. Malige frequently contributes on issues of finance and emerging markets in leading European publications.

Mr. Malige is a graduate of ESCP Europe, a French business school. In addition to his native French, he is fluent in German, Italian and English.

Gerrit Dubois has been a responsible investment specialist at DPAM since 2018. He previously worked as a consultant in the environmental resource management sector. Gerrit holds a Master’s degree in Environment, Health and Safety from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and a degree in Business Administration and Management from Corvinus University in Budapest.

As Deputy Executive Director at the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA), Gerrit especially leads Every Action Counts (EAC) Coalition, founded in 2021 as a global network of leading digital finance and commerce players, with combined access to 3 billion customers, and convened to empower 1 billion people for green action. Other work at GDFA covered the climate impact of food consumption and its change potential, as well as energy-efficiency mortgages. Earlier, Gerrit led the Swiss business of F10 (now: Tenity), a global incubator & accelerator network for the financial services industry. There, he initiated a climate fintech-focused program, served as a board member at F10’s investment arm, and co-authored the Green Fintech Action Plan for the Swiss finance ministry. Prior a banker for 10 years, mostly with ABN AMRO Bank, he became an entrepreneur in 2010, co-founded, led, and worked with – mostly FinTech – start-ups over 12 years, and led mobile payment projects at a large telecommunications provider. Gerrit holds an MBA from IMD International in Lausanne and a BBA from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

• Gwenola Chambon, is CEO and Managing Partner of Vauban Infrastructure Partners. She has built and developed this equity infrastructure activity through the past 12 years. She developed the team, lead the various vintages of fundraising, designing the funds’ strategies and capital deployment. She has successfully turned this activity into a multibillion third party asset manager with a strong international client base.
• Throughout her 28-year career, Gwenola has developed an extensive knowledge of the European infrastructure sector and has years of experience financing and investing in infrastructure assets. She has worked on a number of landmark transactions, from the first PPP projects in continental Europe (in Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, France) to the development of strategic acquisitions in the European core infrastructure space (notably in digital infrastructure in France, Spanish PPPs, smart meters, etc.). Prior to developing the equity infrastructure activities of Natixis IM in 2010 she spent two years within the infrastructure fund Galaxy. Before that Gwenola was Head of European infrastructure at CIFG, and prior to that she was a senior member of the project finance team at BNP Paribas.
• In addition to her responsibilities as director on the boards of various European infrastructure companies (Proxiserve, Axione, Comsa Concessiones, Alis, etc.) Gwenola is a member of a number of industry groups including the European Commission working group of Experts in Infrastructure, the PRI expert group, the GRESB working group, EFAMA, and the AFG and AFIC working groups for infrastructure. She is also an active member of the Institut de la Gestion Déléguée in France. Gwenola is an active member of IFA (Institut Français des Administrateurs) and is responsible for project finance courses in ESSEC’s Masters of Complex Financing.
• Gwenola was appointed at the advisory board of the PRI in early January 2022.
• In late 2022, Gwenola was chosen by the independent panel of judges to win the IJInvestor Awards 2022 trophy for Outstanding Individual.
• Gwenola is fluent in 3 languages (English, Spanish and French) and holds a Master in Business from ESCP.

Harold is Director of Standards at GRI, the global leader for Sustainability Reporting with over 11,000 reporting organizations.

Harold leads the fast-growing GRI team developing new and revising existing GRI Standards. He is responsible for the global multi-stakeholder-based process creating a reporting landscape providing a common reporting language, more transparency and information (qualitative and quantitative) about organization’s impacts on the economy, environment, and people including human rights.

Prior to GRI, Harold worked in the intersection of energy, climate, health, safety and environment in global standards and certification development projects, founded several public-private reporting and certification initiatives. Harold led and created new teams and standardization divisions, and holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering, studied Business Administration.

Hélène Lanier has 15+ years of experience in the financial sector, combining early career stages as a consultant and then employed by the French central bank. She is currently CEO of 2 degrees investing initiative , a Paris-based independent non-profit think tank working to align financial flows with the Paris agreement. She is engaged in developing research work on just transition and impact finance. 2DII developed extensive knowledge of climate strategies from financial institutions and public institutions in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Hilkka joined Aegon in 2021 to head up the responsible investment team in the UK and to drive forward Aegon’s responsible investment practices for the workplace and retail investment business.

Hilkka has extensive experience in responsible investment, sustainability and policy issues, having worked at Principles for Responsible Investment, EY, the OECD, the United Nations, and most recently overseeing the integration of ESG into the investment strategy at IH International Advisors, part of the investment group Interogo Holding AG.

Hilkka is a Finnish national based in London, and holds an MA Honours (First Class) in International Relations from the University of Edinburgh and a Masters in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris.

Jane has over 20 years’ experience supporting businesses in addressing the challenge of climate change, building on expertise in creating global engagement programmes and developing sustainability-driven strategies for long term understanding of risk and opportunity. She established J S Global Advisory Services in 2018 to focus on sustainability and ESG strategy and practice, the energy transition and achieving the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Jane led Grant Thornton LLP’s global Sustainability Advisory Practice, creating corporate engagement programmes & advising on sustainability strategies across sectors.

She is a former Managing Director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, was Chair of the Oil & Gas Advisory Group at CDP and led CDP’s engagement with the TCFD supporting the secretariat and corporate members in the development of the recommendations and framework. She has advised the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative and the UK-City of London Green Finance Initiative.

Jane began her career in upstream oil & gas exploration with BP, holds an MBA from INSEAD and is a postgraduate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She writes on sustainability-related topics with articles published in Nikkei/FT, Forbes, Top 1000 Funds, Responsible Investor, Financial Director, Environmental Finance, Business Green, Investor Relations.

She is a Non-Executive Director and co-Chair of Levin Sources, global specialists in responsible mining, has a strategic partnership with international energy research consultancy Wood Mackenzie, and works with Lansons financial communications and reputation management consultancy, supporting on climate-related reputational risk issues. She is on the list of the top 50 women to follow in climate.

Jorge is the Head of Innovative Finance, Frontier Innovations and Venture Launchpad at the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator, based in Munich, Germany. Leading a team of innovative finance specialists and technology experts — including those specialising in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, blockchain and crypto assets — Jorge is driving the development of new solutions aimed at: improving the efficiency and effectiveness of WFP operations; attracting
impact investments towards humanitarian aid; and promoting financial inclusion of the people WFP serves.

Prior to joining WFP in 2021, Jorge was the Global Head of Innovation at a Portugal-based integrated energy company. His private sector experience in the preceding 20 years was at an international and executive level, where he was focused on advancing strategic innovations in leading organisations operating in the food and nutrition, cleantech and renewable energy sectors. Jorge is experienced in both B2C and B2B environments, and he has supported several high-tech startups.

Being purpose-led and impact-driven, Jorge is passionate about advancing solutions linked to Financial Inclusion, Food and Nutrition Security, and Sustainability, and he strives to develop technologies and innovations that contribute to a more sustainable, and inclusive world.

Originally from Portugal, Jorge now lives in Munich with his wife and their 4 daughters.

Marie-Anne Vincent is Sweep’s VP climate finance. The former CEO of the European climate data provider Carbon4 Finance has 15+ years of experience in the finance industry, working at various positions at HSBC and BNP Paribas on the intersection of finance and sustainability.

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.

Ms. Warlick, a retired senior career diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Serbia, led the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources as the Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs from January – September 2017 and served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from 2014 to 2017. In these roles, she advised the Secretary of State on energy diplomacy initiatives to promote global energy security, energy access and governance across Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. During this time, she served for three years as a U.S. representative on the IEA Governing Board and as Chair of the Standing Group on Long-Term Cooperation. Since then, she has served as team leader for the IEA’s recent in-depth peer reviews of the energy policies in the Netherlands and Canada.

During her diplomatic career, Ms. Warlick held a variety of other senior leadership positions in Washington and overseas at the Department of State, the National Security Council, and the Department of Defense. In particular, she has extensive foreign policy experience working on Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, including previous assignments as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and Director of the State Department’s Office of Russian Affairs and the Office of Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus Affairs. She also served as Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and as U.S. Consul General in Melbourne, Australia, with earlier assignments in Germany, the Philippines, and Bangladesh.

Ms. Warlick holds a B.A. in Political Science from Valparaiso University in Indiana, and an M.A in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. In addition to her prior service on the IEA Governing Board, she served previously on the board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. She is a recipient of The Secretary of State’s Career Achievement Award, The Secretary of State’s Award for Public Outreach, and The Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service.

Matt Christensen is Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing and a Managing Director with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2020. In this capacity, he is responsible for accelerating the growth of Impact Investing as part of the company’s growing private markets platform; he leads continued integration of ESG factors across AllianzGI’s existing range of public markets products, including stewardship activities; and supports the development of new SRI products. In addition, he has investment oversight for the company’s impact investments.

Matt joined AllianzGI from AXA Investment Management, where he had been Global Head of Impact and Responsible Investment since 2011. Prior to this, he was the Founding Executive Director of the think-tank Eurosif (European Sustainable Investment Forum), where he worked for nine years. Mr. Christensen started his career in 1997 as a strategy consultant at Braxton Associates/Deloitte Consulting. He then served as Director of Business Development at Motley Fool, a multimedia financial services company from 1999-2001.

Matt holds a BA in International Relations from Colgate University, an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School, and an MA in International Political Economy from University of Pennsylvania – The Lauder Institute. He has held board positions with various impact funds, including a listed private equity fund on the London Stock Exchange and as Vice President of one of the largest microfinance funds.

Nathalie Borgeaud has significant experience in the financial industry, with a longstanding focus on sustainability. Prior to joining TNFD in February 2022, Nathalie worked for a start-up, now a Moody’s subsidiary, promoting data on physical climate risk and nature loss among European financial institutions. Before that, she worked as senior co-director for Corporate Social Responsibility at BNP Paribas CIB. She designed and implemented a sustainable development strategy, which included monitoring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks and developing green financial product offerings. She built her finance career negotiating large complex financings for corporate clients with BNP Paribas and JPMorgan Chase for about twelve years. Initially based in New York with Citi, she originated project finance, bonds and equity issues for large industrial projects key to the development of emerging countries.

Nathalie is an ingénieur of the French Grande Ecole Mines-ParisTech. She also holds an MBA from HEC Paris and a landscape architect degree from Ecole du Paysage de Versailles.

Patric Kellermann researches physical climate risk at MSCI’s Climate Risk Center. He is leading the physical impacts research group and helps develop the MSCI Climate Value-at-Risk model for physical climate risks. He was previously a postdoctoral flood-risk researcher at the German Research Center for Geoscience and a developer of natural catastrophe models at AXA GRM. Patric holds a doctorate in natural risks research from the University of Potsdam and a diploma in physical geography from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.

Patrick manages the engagement program within the Sustainable Investing team for Allianz SE’s proprietary portfolio. This includes engaging on Allianz’s climate ambitions. Allianz has committed their 800 billion euro proprietary portfolio to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050 in line with a 1.5° maximum temperature rise. Beyond engaging directly with investee companies, he also directs Allianz’s asset manager engagement program to help align asset managers’ diverse investor stewardship approaches with Allianz’s long-term interests. Additionally, he is co-leading the United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance engagement activities alongside Jake Barnett at Wespath Institutional Investments.

Patrick holds a first-class honours degree in business administration and sustainability, a masters of environmental governance, and an executive MBA. Before joining Allianz in 2018, he worked for Chevron Canada, a fully integrated oil and gas subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, which included roles in finance, business strategy and fuel supply & trading.

Pedram Payami is a senior expert for green finance at the Environment Agency Austria. Mr. Payami leads the Coordinating Office of the Austrian Green Finance Alliance – a state convened initiative led by the Austrian Ministry of Climate Action that guides and supports financial companies on their pathway towards achieving climate neutrality. After studying international business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration he has executed different expert and leading roles in various international banks and financial companies. Mr. Payami’s profound knowledge of the financial sector is further completed by his volunteering work accomplished at the sustainable finance team of WWF Austria.

Remco joined the Finance Initiative of UN Environment (UNEP FI) in 2007 and is responsible for the Initiative’s strategy on climate change. He develops and implements projects that support the alignment of the finance sector with climate-compatible economic development. Activities include policy engagement, the development of finance sector platforms, tools and guidelines, as well as research and training. Remco has been a leading or supporting author of more than a dozen UNEP publications on sustainable finance and co-led the establishment of the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC), a group of institutional investors now committed to aligning USD 800 billion in assets with the low-carbon economy.

Prior to joining UNEP FI, Remco worked as an analyst in the infrastructure team at the German Development Finance Institution (DEG; KfW Group of Banks) and helped design structured deals in project finance. He holds a British BA Honours in Business Administration and Economics from Napier University in Edinburgh and a dual German/Spanish Diplom (MSc) from Aachen University of Applied Sciences and Universidad de Alicante, and is fluent in English, German, Spanish and French.

Robin Millington, CEO of Planet Tracker, brings extensive experience of working on global issues requiring transformative change. She has worked in the climate, land use and food sectors, helping found Planet Tracker in 2018 and has many years of senior management experience in philanthropy and industry, most recently with the European Climate Foundation and having previously headed organisations including the Centre for European Policy Studies and Wetlands International. Robin currently sits on the Capitals Coalition Board as well as numerous advisory groups within the Natural Capital and ESG space.

Working to mainstream nature in financial decision-making, Romie Goedicke is the Associate Lead of the UNEP FI nature team. She is working to develop a number of new relationships with the nature finance community and bring cross-programme efforts such as alignment on portfolio targets, and up-scaling nature-positive financial flows. She is the founder of the Hive, changing the nature of finance, and worked previously in senior positions for IUCN Netherlands Committee and the Global Reporting Initiative.

Dr. Romina Boarini is the Director of the OECD WISE (Well Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity) Centre, where she promotes the OECD’s position as a leading international institution in the area of well-being, inclusion, sustainability and equal opportunity, and contributes to strengthening OECD research and advice on the Beyond GDP Agenda; policies for well-being; inclusive growth and SDGs.

She was previously a Senior Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General and the Head of the Inclusive Growth Initiative, where she developed the OECD Framework for Action on Inclusive Growth and launched Business for Inclusive Growth, a coalition of 40 multinationals committed to fight inequalities.

Before joining the Office of the Secretary-General, Romina worked as Deputy Head of the Well-Being Division of the Statistics Directorate and the Head of the Well-Being and Progress Section, where she was responsible for OECD Better Life Initiative.

Before joining the OECD in 2005, Ms. Boarini was a post-doctoral fellow in Sustainable Development (Chaire EDF-Ecole Polytechnique) and worked as a consultant to the French Ministry of Social Affairs. Ms. Boarini, an Italian national, holds a PhD in Economics from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and her Research Interests include: Well-being, Poverty, Education and Behavioural Economics.

Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO, working to mobilize global capital for climate action. Projects include a green bond definitions and certification scheme with $34 trillion of assets represented on its Board; working with the Chinese central bank on how to grow green bonds in China; market development programs in Brazil, Mexico, ASEAN and Africa; and market tracking services for the green bonds industry. He is a member of the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance, and was a member of its predecessors, the 2017 EU High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. He is also a member of green finance committees in China, India, Mexico and Kazakhstan. Sean is also a Professor in Practice at SOAS University of London.

Sofia is responsible for developing and implementing the strategy to meet the Church Commissioners’ Net Zero by 2050 target as well as working with the investment teams to review and monitor external asset managers’ RI practices across asset classes. In addition, Sofia is the co-lead of the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification track at the UN-backed Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) and is part of working groups with UKSIF, IIGCC and the NZAOA. Previous responsibilities include building out ESG integration capabilities and leading on TCFD reporting and Net Zero at Tesco Pension Investment and focusing on ESG integration in public markets and the approach to sustainability outcomes at the PRI. Sofia holds an MSc in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School and an MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh.

Tony Burdon has been CEO of Make My Money Matter from its launch in 2020, leading a public campaign to ensure the finance in our pensions and banks tackles the climate emergency and not causes it. He has worked in humanitarian and international development areas for much of his life, with over fifteen years in Africa and Asia, including Malawi, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda during the genocide, Nigeria, Iraq and Nepal. While in Oxfam he was on the board of the successful Jubilee 2000 Debt Relief campaign. He then worked in the UK Treasury, the Commission for Africa, and the Department for International Development, leading the government’s economic and private sector work in Nepal and Nigeria, and then as a senior civil servant, leading the  Economic, Private Sector, and International Financial Institutions Departments. A key area has been the mobilisation of private sector investment into developing countries, with a focus on achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and in tackling the climate emergency.