2023 Speakers

Anna Hyrske is the Principal Responsible Investment Specialist at The Bank of Finland since July 2020. She has over 20 years of finance industry and ESG experience from various positions such as credit analyst, portfolio manager, ESG specialist and Head of Asian Operations (Hong Kong) at Ilmarinen, a Finnish multi-asset pension insurance company where she used to work before joining the Finnish central bank. She has co-authored three responsible investment books. The most recent, ”The Responsible Investor, An Introductory Guide to Responsible Investment”, was published by Routledge in late 2022. She has also written her master thesis on integrating ESG considerations into investment decision making (2004).

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.

Chloe Brennan-Card is a Data Scientist who works for the FCA to develop pragmatic, data driven and rigorous solutions that facilitate consistent and efficient implementation of regulatory frameworks.

Chloe believes that the principles of data science best practise- efficiency, transiency, and scalabilityare fundamental for solving the problems of climate change, loss of nature and sustainability. Chloe is driven to enable stakeholders across the financial sector to identify and mitigate their impacts and dependencies on nature and their climate related risks, and to seize the opportunity of investing in climate and nature positive solutions, through data.

Chloe has instigated an innovative project which seeks to establish a quantitative approach to defining and measuring greenwashing, identifying the potential use of dark patterns within this context with a data science prerogative. Chloe holds a degree in Mathematics, is experienced in quantitative fields and specialises in the
application of machine learning to complex and ambiguous problems involving heterogeneous and
unstructured data

A former graduate in Maths (Ecole Normale Supérieure) and Political Sciences (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris), Claire Tutenuit is an Ingénieur au Corps des Mines.

As such she started her career in the Ministry of Industry in 1982. She joined business in 1987, first in the sector of environment (Compagnie Générale des Eaux, now Veolia) and later in the aerospace sector (Matra, now Airbus), where she spent 10 years with business development and strategy responsibilities. Since 2001 she has been an independent consultant in strategy, organisation and environment in these same sectors.

She has been the Chief representative (Déléguée Générale) of Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE) since the end of 2005. The French partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), EpE is a think tank of some 60 companies that share the vision of environment as a source of progress and opportunities, and work together to better take it into account in their management and strategies.

Claire Tutenuit has written a book and various articles; she is a member of the Board of Fondation pour la Nature et l’Homme, of Ineris and of GRDF.

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 Atkin was appointed CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment in December 2021. The PRI is a UN-supported organisation, with more than 5,000 signatories who collectively represent over US $121 trillion in AUM. He is responsible for the PRI’s global operations.

Most recently, David served as the Deputy CEO for AMP Capital and prior to that spent almost 13 years as the CEO for Cbus Superannuation Fund where he saw membership grow from 500,000 to over 750,000 and AUM rise to AUD $55 billion.

David has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from La Trobe University for his work in the sustainable finance field, was awarded the Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) Fund Executive of the Year in 2017 and was presented with an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Life Membership in 2020. He served on the board of the Climate Council until December 2021.

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.

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).

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.

Guenther Thallinger joined Allianz Group in May 2009.

He has been a Member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE since 2017, responsible for Investment Management and the Center of Competence Life & Health.

In 2018 he additionally assumed responsibility for steering ESG topics within Allianz. He is the chairman of the United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AOA).

Until his appointment to the Board of Management, Guenther Thallinger acted as CEO, and before that as CFO, of Allianz Investment Management SE and was Chairman of the Allianz Investment Management Board.

Before joining Allianz, he was principal at McKinsey&Company. Born in Austria, Guenther Thallinger graduated with a BSc from the Technical University Graz and a MSc from the Technical University Vienna in technical mathematics. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the Technical University Vienna.

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.

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.

Jes Andrews is Investment Lead at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, where she leads the Investment Leadership Programme, including the UN-Convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, where she also focuses on portfolio target-setting with investors, and the Legal Framework for Impact. She is also a member of several GFANZ workstreams, and the Expert Advisory Groups for Science Based Targets Initiative and UNFCCC’s Race to Zero Campaign. Prior to working with UNEP FI, she worked on climate change projects across with multiple UN agencies, governments and private firms across some 35 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. She’s the author of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group Paper: High Level Recommendations for Credible Net Zero Commitments and has several times been served as an invite reviewer of the UNEP Emission Gap Reports. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics and holds a Master of Finance from the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School.

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.

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.

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.

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 Lhayani, President of the French SIF (FIR)

Nathalie is also Director of Sustainable Policy for the Caisse des Dépôts Group. In this capacity, she coordinates the responsible investment policy, climate, biodiversity, SDGs and ESG reporting of all CDC Group entities.

She is a member of Novethic‘s Strategic Committee and a director of CDC Biodiversité and of ORSE (French CSR association).

Aged 46, she is a graduate of the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva and the University of Paris IX Dauphine, in applied economics and development.

She has held various positions in European and international civil society (at the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development, Confrontations Europe, EurActiv France as founder) and in European and national institutions. In France, she was notably advisor to the Minister of Ecological Transition and Solidarity (2017-2019), to the Minister Delegate in charge of European Affairs (2012-2014) and head of the parliamentary sector of the General Secretariat for European Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office (2014-2016). During the COP21, she participated, as part of a mission at Caisse des Dépôts, in the creation of Climate Finance Day and the mobilisation of sustainable finance actors to redirect capital towards a low-carbon economy.

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. 

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.

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.

Dr Tony Rooke is Executive Director and Head of Transition Planning at GFANZ. He is GFANZ’s technical lead across work in corporate transition, co-ordinating insight and guidance with financial institutions and civil society representatives, ensuring that financial institutions can understand the scale and timing that specific sectors need for transition finance, including aviation, steel, and oil and gas.

Prior to GFANZ, Tony was Senior Director for Transition Risk at WTW, where he led net-zero transition, TCFD and decarbonisation strategy advisory, and helped formulate the principles and methodology for the transition plan accreditation scheme: Climate Transition Pathways.

Tony has over 25 years of global experience in climate change, sustainability, strategy, advisory and programme delivery. Prior to WTW, he was global Director for Disclosure at CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) responsible for defining, delivering and assessing climate disclosures from over half of the world’s companies by market capitalisation, and thousands of cities globally. He has led sustainability consulting practices, and conceived and led an award winning environmental programme at Logica.