We look forward to announcing the expert speakers coming to the 2023 Sustainable Investment Forum Europe. Take a look at 2022’s speakers.
Danielle Boyd
IIGCC
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.
Dave Reubzaet
Global Reporting Initiative
Dave is Director Capital Markets at GRI (Global Reporting Initiative). In his work he engages globally with market regulators, stock exchanges, rating agencies, institutional investors, asset managers and multilaterals to advance integration of sustainability reporting and emphasize its importance for sustainable development and value creation. Prior to joining GRI, Dave was a Director Sustainable Tax at PwC, actively bringing topics like responsible investing, sustainable finance, good tax governance and tax transparency to organisations. At GRI he works with a diverse international team of experts on numerous sustainability topics in the context of responsible business conduct.
David Atkin
Principles for Responsible Investment
David Atkin was appointed CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment in December 2021. The PRI is a UN-supported organisation, with more than 4,500 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 currently serves on the board of the Climate Council. He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from La Trobe University for his work in the sustainable finance field, was awarded the FEAL Fund Executive of the Year in 2017 and was presented with a ASFA Life Membership in 2020.
David Atkin
Principles for Responsible Investment
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
UNEP FI
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
UN Capital Development Fund
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
David Pitt-Watson
University of Cambridge
David was one of the early architects of responsible investment in the UK. He was co-founder and CEO of Hermes pioneering Focus Funds and Equity Ownership Service. He co-chaired the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative in the run up to the Paris Climate Conference. He was senior non-executive at KPMG. He currently advises Ownership Capital, Sarasin and Aviva.
He was Pembroke Visiting Professor at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, where he remains a Fellow. His books on responsible investment have been influential globally and translated into five languages.
Recently he has led the Climate Accounting Project for the Principles for Responsible Investment, focussing on ensuring that accounting standards reflect the challenge of global warming.
David Zellner
Wespath Benefits & Investments
Dave Zellner is the Chief Investment Officer for Glenview, Illinois-based Wespath Benefits and Investments, an agency of The United Methodist Church (UMC), and Wespath Institutional Investments. Wespath manages $28 billion on behalf of 100,000 active and retired clergy and lay employees of the UMC and over 120 UMC-affiliated institutions. Prior to joining Wespath in 1997, Dave was Senior Vice President and Director of Operations with Investment Research Company, then an investment management affiliate of United Asset Management. Previously, he was Director of Equities for the Shell Oil Company Retirement Funds where he managed two internal investment portfolios.
Dave helped co-author and was one of the original signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment in 2006. He presently is the board chair for FaithInvest, a U.K. based charity. He received his B.S. in Finance from Louisiana State University and MBA from the University of Houston.
Dr Nina Seega
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Dr Nina Seega is the Research Director for Sustainable Finance at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). She leads a broad portfolio of engagements across a variety of sustainable finance themes, including nature-related finance. Nina has worked with De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) on the financial impact of disruptive energy transition, collaborated with the South African National Treasury and Banco de Mexico on embedding environmental scenarios into financial risk frameworks, and was the knowledge partner for the G20 Green Finance Study Group in 2016 and 2017. Previously, Nina was the Head of the London Traded Products Desk for Dresdner Kleinwort. In addition to her role at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Nina is an academic visitor at the Bank of England, as well as a member of the Strategic Advisory Board on Sustainable Finance at the British Standards Institute, the Sustainable Finance Scientific Council at S&P Ratings, and the Board of Directors at the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance.
Nina is a multilingual research director driven by mainstreaming environmental and social considerations into daily financial and corporate decision making. Previously a risk manager with leadership experience in traded credit risk management. Nina has defended her PhD on strategic practices that drive resilience in finance at the University of Cambridge. She also holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organisation from University of Cambridge and an MSc in Information Systems from the London School of Economics.
Dr Vian Sharif
FNZ
Dr Vian Sharif is Head of Sustainability at FNZ. She is part of the team driving the development of innovative technology solutions to catalyse the shift to more sustainable investments, and ultimately a more sustainable world. Prior to this she spent over a decade at global asset manager Investec. As part of a number of governmental and international sustainability advisory groups, she was also a Member of the Taskforce for Nature Related Disclosures Technical Experts Group. She is the co-founder of NatureAlpha,a nature risk metrics platform, and ’Benchmark for Nature’, an Oxford University research project to evaluate the impacts on nature of investment decisions, recognising the gap which currently exists in investor portfolios and metrics.
Edith Siermann
NN Investment Partners
Business experience
2019-to date Edith is Head of Fixed Income Solutions and Specialized Fixed Income, which combines the NN General Account Team, the LDI & Rates Team, the Treasury Team and the EMD, Investment Grade Credit, High Yield and Convertible Bond teams at NN Investment Partners. Edith will also focus on Responsible Investing within Fixed Income and is a Member of the Management Team Investments (MTI).
2017-2018 CIO at De Nederlandsche Bank, managing the reserves and own accounts of the Dutch Central Bank.
2009-2017 Manager Sustainability Investing at Robeco, coordinating all sustainability related initiatives and integration in both equities and fixed income and heading the voting and engagement team.
2000-2017 Global CIO Fixed Income, Managing Director, at Robeco, responsible for the fixed income business with AuM of EUR 40 bn, managed by global investment teams invested in a large variety of Fixed Income asset classes using both qualitative and quantitative investment styles.
1989-2000 Team head & Portfolio Manager Fixed Income at Robeco managing the credit team and European government bond team. Responsible for the management of global Fixed Income investment funds and mandates.
Qualifications
MSc in Macro Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1989
Eila Kreivi
European Investment Bank
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).
