Adam is the Director of Ethics and Engagement for the Church of England Pensions Board, as well as Co-Chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative and a Board Member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, (IIGCC).  He is also the co-lead, on behalf of CA100+, for engagement with Royal Dutch Shell that led to the 2018 joint statement on climate targets agreed between Shell and institutional investors.

Adam founded and now Co-Chairs the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) an asset owner-led and asset manager-supported global initiative which assesses companies’ preparedness for the transition to the low carbon economy (and publishes this through the London School of Economics).  Adam is also the lead for the Church of England on the Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative (MFRI) a forum that convenes dialogue between mining company CEO’s and Church leaders.

Adam also serves as a member of the Royal College of Physicians Investment Advisory Board and on the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Stewardship Advisory Group.

Aline Reichenberg Gustafsson, CFA is the Editor-in-Chief for of NordSIP, a media platform focused on Sustainable Investing for professional investors, viewed from the Nordics. Aline has nearly 20 years of experience in the asset management industry in Stockholm, London and Geneva, including as a long/short equity hedge fund portfolio manager and buy-side analyst, but also as CFO and COO in Nordic asset management firms. Aline holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a License in Economic Sciences from the University of Geneva.

Amanda Latham is a Policy Lead at The Pension Regulator. Amanda joined TPR in 2011, working in the policy and stakeholder teams with a focus on governance and investment. Amanda leads on DB consolidation, collective benefits, professional trustee standards and investment policy for TPR.

Prior to joining TPR, Amanda worked with the Environment Agency and in local government. She is also a trustee on the board of Age UK in Brighton & Hove and was appointed Vice Chair in 2018.

Andreas Hallermeier was born in 1980 in Munich. After graduation from high school, Mr. Hallermeier did an apprenticeship as a bank clerk with Deutsche Bank. In 2007 he graduated in Economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. In 2008 he began his career as a Junior Portfoliomanager at the Bayerische Versorgungskammer, where he was responsible for the investments in “Emerging Markets Equities” and “Convertibles”. After the Financial Crisis he developed the ESG approach of the BVK and became Assistant to the Chief Investment Officer and BVK´s first Sustainability Manager in 2015. In 2011 he obtained the Certified European Financial Analyst CEFA and the Certified International Investment Analyst CIIA.

Andrew has over 30 years of experience as a global risk and finance specialist and was recently appointed to lead a new cross sector global team to develop and expand Fitch’s analysis of ESG and sustainable finance. Andrew is responsible for developing Fitch’s sustainable finance strategy, both within the ratings business and across the broader Fitch group, by determining investor and banker needs, and driving the development of new teams to provide products and services for this rapidly growing area. Initially the sustainable finance team is based in London, New York and Beijing, but will expand in size, scope and location dependent on identified constituent needs.
Andrew has held several senior management roles within Fitch over the last 14 years. In Europe from 2004 to 2010 he ran the energy, utilities, project finance and regulated transportation analytical groups. From 2010 to 2017 he was based in Singapore and led the development of Fitch’s Asia Pacific Corporate Ratings Group. Then on his return to Europe in 2017 he was regional head of Fitch’s EMEA Corporate Ratings Group, and also successfully ran a global executive project to transform and improve Fitch’s overseas office network.
From 2000 to 2004, Andrew was head of ABN Amro’s structured industry finance, power and utilities group for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He also previously worked for Edison Capital Europe as a private equity investment director in infrastructure, for the energy company PowerGen plc (now EON) as a senior project finance manager, and in the banking sector as a mezzanine, leveraged buy-out and cross-border M&A lender and advisor.
From 2006-2010 Andrew actively assisted the United Nation’s Economic Council for Europe advising on energy and risk issues, and was a member of the UNECE Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Sustainable Energy Developments. Andrew speaks regularly at conferences and forums on a wide range of risk based issues. He is currently a trustee of the Great Ormand Street Hospital based children’s charity CLEFT.
Andrew graduated with a BSc Hons in Psychology from Bristol University in 1989, and has a postgraduate diploma from INSEAD business school (CGEM 2016).

With his 15 people team, he is responsible for managing the financial assets that hedge the 28bn liability derived from the forthcoming costs of deconstruction of the French nuclear power plants and the long term storage of nuclear waste.

Part of these assets is managed internally:

– Government bonds and currency hedge by the Paris dealing room  ,

–  Infrastructure and real estate investments by EDF Invest .

The other part (corporate bonds and equity) is delegated to asset management companies mainly in Europe and the US.

Bernard  is also responsible for delegating to life insurers the asset management of the French defined benefits pension plans (11 bn€). He advises the supervisory boards of the Employee Savings Scheme and Employee Retirement Scheme (4 bn€ DC plans)

Bernard joined EDF S.A in 2011 after 22 years at La Banque Postale AM acting in the last ten years as CIO. Under his term, assets grew from 8 to 125bn and staff from 20 to 150 people.

Bernard graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris (1986) as an engineer – economist. He is a chartered actuary (1990) and financial analyst (1995).

Bernard is married with England-born Sophie, father of 4 children and lives in Paris. In 2013, he survived a cancer that kept him away from his job for a year.

Christian has a solid financial background from Scandinavian money and bond markets and is an experienced chief investment officer with strong references to the banking industry. Throughout his career, Christian has had a great focus on Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation, Risk Premia & Derivative strategies, Asset Management and Liquidity Management. He is a strong and professional business developer with a new perspective on change management and strategy.

His educational background is from Copenhagen University and INSEAD.

Diandra Soobiah joined NEST in 2010 and is responsible for the delivery and implementation of NEST’s Responsible Investment approach. Diandra ensures NEST fulfils their role as a responsible steward of members’ assets in order to deliver the best financial outcomes for their members. She also ensures NEST’s investment approach factors in material environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities. Diandra has 14 years investment experience, with companies including Nedgroup Investments and Russell Investments. She has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies and French from Queen Mary’s University of London and has also passed CAIA level 1 and the IMC.

Emil is COO & co-founder of Matter. Emil has previously worked as a strategy consultant and has helped clients in the FMCG, energy and financial sector build corporate strategy , acquire and merge. Emil has also managed teams of anthropologists on driving user-centric strategy and design projects in the pensions industry.

Emma Howard Boyd is the Chair of the Environment Agency, an Ex officio board member of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and has recently been appointed as the UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation.

Emma serves on a number of boards and advisory committees which include ShareAction, Menhaden Capital PLC, The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project and the Green Finance Institute.

She has worked in financial services for over 25 years, in corporate finance and fund management. As Director of Stewardship at Jupiter Asset Management until July 2014, Emma was integral to the development of their expertise in the corporate governance and sustainability fields.

Her previous board and advisory roles include: Vice Chair of Future Cities Catapult, a director of the Aldersgate Group and Triodos Renewables PLC, Chair of UKSIF (the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association), and a member of the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance and the Green Finance Taskforce.

Eric Usher currently heads the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, UNEP FI, a global partnership bringing together the UN with 230 banks, insurers and asset managers working to develop the sustainable finance and responsible investment agendas. Eric oversees governance, strategy and day-to-day management of UNEP FI’s work programme and global network development. Over the years UNEP FI has established some of the most important sustainability oriented frameworks within the finance industry, including the Principles for Responsible Investment (2006), the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (2012) and work now underway on the establishment of Principles for Responsible Banking. Since joining in 2015, Mr. Usher has focused on accelerating the deep integration of sustainability risks into financial practice, including addressing climate change, natural capital loss and human rights abuses, as well as building out the frameworks for positive impact finance needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Eric sits on several industry bodies including as UN representative on the Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment, as a member of the Evaluation Council of the French sovereign green bond, as Director for the impact fund REPP Africa and founder of the Seed Capital Assistance Facility.

Prior to leading UNEP FI, Mr. Usher has over twenty years of experience in the low carbon sectors, spanning technology commercialisation in Canada, solar rural electrification in Morocco and financial sector development across emerging markets. During 2011, Mr. Usher worked on the establishment of the Green Climate Fund and led efforts to create its Private Sector Facility. Eric has been an editor of the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment report published annually with Bloomberg and was lead author for finance of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources. Before joining the UN, Eric was General Manager of a solar rural electrification company based in Morocco.

Since 2006, Eva Halvarsson has acted as the CEO of the Second Swedish National Pension Fund — AP2. She heads up an organization with more than SEK 330 billion (approx. USD 36 billion) under management in virtually every asset class, and one that is active in all parts of the world; AP2 is one of northern Europe’s largest pension funds.

Ms. Halvarsson began her career as an accountant, progressing to the point that before joining AP2, she spent ten years working for the Swedish Government where she was responsible for the governance and management of the large and extensive portfolio of state owned companies.

Eva Halvarsson has had a distinguished and varied leadership career. She took part in the working group that put into effect the Swedish Corporate Governance Code in 2004. She also spent several years, serving on the Swedish Corporate Governance Board. Eva has been a board member of several large companies and has chaired the nomination committees of some of Sweden’s largest listed companies. She recently left after serving for ten years as the Deputy Chairperson of the board of the University of Gothenburg.

Presently, she is board member of the UN-PRI (the United Nation´s Principles for Responsible Investments), Vasakronan (the largest real estate company in Sweden), The Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development and The Royal Swedish Opera. In addition, she serves on the advisory board of the Women Entrepreneur´s Opportunity Facility, the first-ever global finance facility dedicated exclusively to women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises.

Eva Halvarsson was born in 1962 and holds an MSc in Business and Economics from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Gregor is an independent Clean Energy and impact investment specialist. He sits and has sat on investment committees of numerous high-profile international funds, including UNCDF, European Fund for Strategic Investment, Dolma, Mergence, and UKCI. He currently advises the European Commission, UNCDF, UNDP, the African Development Bank, a Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Fund and the World Bank on new fund establishment. He also acts as Boston Consulting Group’s international fund structuring expert for Middle Eastern corporate and government clients. Greg was previously Managing Director of the UK Green Investment Bank which has successfully concluded over 100 individual investments in clean energy and energy efficiency in the UK and has a funding partnership between DECC and the GIB for funding clean energy in emerging markets, including India and Africa. Prior to this he was CEO of SW Securities, a regulated clean energy finance firm investing in renewable energy projects and energy access projects in emerging markets internationally, and responsible for the world’s first listed Carbon Project Fund in 2005 in South Africa.

Chairman of the Board at Casablanca Stock Exchange, Chief Executive Officer of CDG Capital, the investment banking and investment Managementarm of CDG Group in Morocco, Chairman of Maghreb Titrisation, Hamid Tawfiki graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecoledes Minesde Paris, Hamid Tawfiki holds a DEA (M.Phil) in Mathematics from Paris Dauphine University.

More than 28 years of international experience in the finance industry, Hamid Tawfiki held several positions in different countries: Switzerland as CEO of Avenir Global Investment Advisors, London as Global Head of Commodities Sales & Structuring and Global Head of Emerging Markets at Calyon,  Regional Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for Asia Pacific at Banque Indosuez in Hong-Kong, Global Head of marketing & Investment for Wealth Management at Banque Indosuez in Geneva.

Hamid Tawfiki held also a senior position in Paris within Banque Indosuez in charge of International Business Development and was head of Corporate Planning and Budgeting for Saudi French Bank in Ryad.

Hamid Tawfiki is a member of The Bretton Woods Committee since November 2012, and Sherpa of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) & The Long-Term Investors Club (LTIC).

Harilaos is an entrepreneur with a climate research background. Before the climate data factory, he founded a weather service company that was acquired by the world’s largest private weather service provider. To get there he raised venture capital funds, grew the company and conducted a merger. During this experience, he had the opportunity to develop innovative weather services for corporations in the consumer-packaged goods and energy sectors in the field of business analytics, predictive modeling, and big data. His background is in oceanography with a Ph.D. from Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris and a postdoc at the University of Washington and NOAA in Seattle.

Joël PROHIN (53) heads the portfolio management team of Caisse des Dépôts (CDC) within the Financial Investment Division. He is responsible for 150 bn€ of AuM, invested in fixed income, equities, real estate and private equity, mostly managed internally. He manages 5 asset management teams (60 people in staff). He is also member of the French institutional investors association (Af2i) Strategic Committee on behalf of CDC.

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.

Lauren is Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Institutions Business at Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices. Trucost assesses and prices risks relating to climate change, natural resource constraints and broader ESG factors, enabling companies and financial institutions to understand exposure to ESG factors, inform resilience and identify the transformative solutions of tomorrow.

Lauren is an expert in sustainable finance and, over the last decade, has advised leading fund managers, pension funds, banks and DFIs globally on how to integrate climate change and natural capital analysis into their investment decision making.

Prior to joining Trucost, Lauren was a Senior Investment Associate in Global Equity Research at Putnam Investments specialising in Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals and Aerospace & Defence. She was also a consultant at DFID (UK Department for International Development), working on the Millennium Development Goals for Girls’ Education.

Lauren holds a BA (Hons) and MA from Cambridge University in Archaeology and Anthropology and an MSc in Anthropology and International Development from the London School of Economics. She is also a regular speaker and respected commentator on environmental finance issues.

Laurence Pessez has been leading the Corporate Social Responsibility of BNP Paribas since 2010. Under her leadership, the bank became in 2017 the n°1 bank in Europe for its sustainability performance, according to the extra-financial analysis Vigeo-Eiris. In 2018, she contributed to obtaining the “World’s Best Bank for Sustainable Finance” award by Eumoney and in 2019, to positioning the bank as the n°1 bank in Europe and n°3 worldwide in Corporate Knights’ “Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the
World” ranking.

Prior to her current role, she occupied a variety of positions in Communications, Marketing, and HR in several other corporations. Laurence graduated from Sciences Po Paris. She is a Board member of the French think tank Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI).

Laurent leads the Investor Engagement team in Europe. Laurent started his career in 1991 working with Bank Indosuez for 10 years. In 2000, he co-founded a start-up incubator and coached entrepreneurs to accelerate their businesses before creating his own consultancy company in Brazil, where he became one of the 300 mentors of the NGO Endeavor. Laurent graduated from the IESE Business School in Barcelona, with an Executive MBA in General Management. He also holds an MA in Economics from the University of Paris Dauphine.

Magnus Billing is the CEO of Alecta. Alecta provides collectively agreed occupational pensions, and is owned by approximately 2.4 million private customers and 34,000 corporate clients. Alecta’s assets under management amount to approximately USD 90 billion.

In 2016 Mr. Billing was appointed to be member of the European Commissions’ “high-level expert group” on sustainable finance. In January 2018, the group delivered their final recommendations for “a comprehensive EU strategy on sustainable finance as part of the Capital Markets Union”, which informed the Commissions’ Action plan on Sustainable Finance launched in 2018.

Prior to joining Alecta, Mr. Billing was the CEO of Nasdaq Nordics, and Head of Fixed Income Nordic and Baltic Markets. Within Nasdaq he previously held the position as Chief Legal Counsel and Senior Vice President of Nasdaq Group, Inc.

Mr. Billing has 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.

Maria joined the FAIRR Initiative as Director in September 2016 and has oversight of the creation and execution of FAIRR’s strategy for the global institutional investor network which currently has 280 investor supporters with combined assets of over $11 trillion. Maria works closely with asset owners, investment managers and other key capital markets stakeholders to help them understand the material environmental and climate-associated risks and opportunities within the current global food system, with particular focus on the intensive livestock production and its related supply chains. 

Prior to this, she worked for the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) for six years where she led the PRI’s signatory relations and outreach strategy to raise awareness of material ESG issues amongst the institutional investor community and ensure their incorporation into investment policies and practices. Maria has over twenty years’ experience in global investment banking, business and finance, working at both J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank.

She currently serves on the Sustainability Accounting Standard Board (SASB) Standards Advisory Group and is also a member of the Intentional Endowment Network (IEN) Steering Committee. 

She has lived and worked San Francisco, New York and Madrid, and is currently London-based. Maria holds a MA (Distinction) in Environment, Politics and Globalization from King’s College London and a BA in International Business, Latin American Studies and Spanish from SDSU.

Mario Nava (born Milan, 1966) holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from
Bocconi University (1989), an MA from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (1992) and a PhD in Public Finance from the London School of Economics (1996). Mario joined the European Commission in 1994 and held various senior positions. Since October 2018, he is the Director for “investment and
Company reporting” in the Financial Stability, Financial Services and
Capital Markets Union Directorate General. Prior to that, from 2016 to April
2018, he was Director of the “Financial system surveillance and crisis
management” Directorate and, from 2011 to 2016, Director of the
“Regulation and prudential supervision of financial institutions”.

Previously, he was Head of the “Banking and Financial Conglomerates”
Unit, of the Financial Markets Infrastructure Unit, a member of the Group of
Policy Advisers of the EU Commission President, Prof. Romano Prodi, and
a member of the Cabinet of the Competition Commissioner, Prof. Mario
Monti.

Alongside his current work, he is active in research and teaching. He is
currently Visiting Professor at Bocconi University (Milan) and at Solvay
Business School (Brussels) and has been teaching in several universities
in Europe and Latin America.

From April to September 2018 he also served as Chairman of CONSOB,
Italy’s financial markets supervisor.

Mike Tyrrell has been an SRI analyst for the past 20 years – on the ‘buy-side’ at Jupiter Asset Management, then on the ‘sell-side’ at HSBC Global Equities where he established the first SRI research on the ‘sell-side’ and then at Citi Investment Research.

Mike is a strong believer in rigorous sustainability analysis conducted by intelligent individuals embedded within ‘mainstream’ investment institutions and in active and constructive dialogue between investors, companies and independent experts. When executed effectively these lead to better investment outcomes and a more sustainable society.

Mike is the Editor of SRI-CONNECT which is an online platform that facilitates the flow of research and discussion between analysts and enables efficient communications between investors and companies on sustainability themes.

For Mike, SRI-CONNECT is an opportunity to use the emerging capabilities of social media to empower these analysts, investors, CSR managers and IR directors such that, by improving the efficiency of communications between them, sustainability analysis can be embedded as a core component of investment research and capital allocation.

Nadine leads and delivers CDSB’s international technical work programme, and manages the Secretariat for its Technical Working Group. She focuses on activities relating to the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, and making corporate reporting fit for purpose.

Previously, she worked as an environmental consultant and lectured on environmental policy at Birkbeck College. As Economic Adviser, Climate Change at the Commonwealth Secretariat, and in her roles in the British Government and UNDP, Nadine has advised on environment, climate change and sustainability. As an asset finance lawyer at a Magic Circle law firm, Nadine engaged with major corporate clients across the transport, energy and financial services industries. She has conceptualised and developed strategic initiatives on climate finance, biodiversity, the green economy, SDGs, and energy-climate-poverty-governance connections. Nadine holds a BA (Geography) from McGill University, and an MA (Geography) from York University (Canada).

Nicholas Pfaff is a Managing Director in the Market Practice and Regulatory Policy team of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA). He is the Secretary of the Green Bond Principles (GBP) and the Social Bond Principles (SBP) and coordinates a number of other ICMA initiatives such as the Global Green Finance Council (GGFC) and the Public Sector Issuer Forum (PSIF). He is also a member of the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance. Nicholas is a senior banker with extensive international experience in investment banking and capital markets, as well as in development banking. He has worked previously at Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Niels is CEO & co-founder of Matter. Previously, Niels worked for the Danish UN mission in New York, and the United Nations in Copenhagen. He holds a MSc in International Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School and has been listed as Forbes 30-under-30 within Finance in Europe.

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.

Patrick Uelfeti is the deputy CIO of PUBLICA, the pension fund of the Swiss Government. His responsibilities include portfolio management, the selection and monitoring of external managers, and the development and implementation of the investment strategy.
Prior to joining PUBLICA Asset Management in 2010, Patrick held various senior positions in research at Clariden Leu, a Swiss private bank. He started his career as an economist for the US Embassy in Bern, Switzerland.
Patrick has completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Geneva and holds a Master of Science in Economics from HEC Lausanne and a Master of Advanced Studies in Environmental Technology and Management from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). He is a CFA charterholder, a lecturer at FHNW, member of the board of the Swiss Association for Responsible Investments, SVVK-ASIR and on the advisory board of Arkadiko Partners.

Peter Lööw is Head of Responsible Investment at Sweden’s largest pension fund Alecta. Peter joined Alecta in 1998 and was previously Head of Risk & Performance. He has been a member of the management team at Alecta Asset Management since 2009 and sits on the board in Swesif. Mr Lööw holds a MBA and CEFA from Stockholm School of Economics and a Master in Finance from Stockholm University.

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.

Rémi Bourgeot is an economist and an associate fellow at IRIS. He has led a dual career as an investment strategist in the financial sector and as an economic expert on the Eurozone and emerging markets for various leading think-tanks and consultancies. His work focuses on political economy and global imbalances.

His studies on the Eurozone investigate economic divergence, ECB policy, European politics, Germany’s economic policy, economic history and industrial issues.

In terms of emerging markets, he has mainly worked on Turkey and the Middle East, as well as Asia (China/India), particularly on macro-financial imbalances (trade, financial flows, exchange rates and monetary policy) and energy policy issues (energy balance, pipeline geopolitics).

Rémi is a lecturer on the European economy for IRIS-Sup postgraduate programme.

He holds Master’s degrees from the Higher Institute for Aeronautics and Space (SupAero) and from the Toulouse School of Economics.

A climate, energy and clean technology specialist, Sanjeev founded the Brussels-based NGO Change Partnership, focusing on the politics of climate change.

He was previously a Senior Associate at environment think-tank E3G and also led WWF European Policy Office’s campaigning
on the Emissions Trading System (ETS). Sanjeev started his career as a civil servant before joining the Energy Institute in London. He has dual British and Belgian nationality. Sanjeev studied history at Queen Mary University in London. Sanjeev Kumar is a climate, energy and clean technology specialist.

He is the founder of Change Partnership, a think-tank and NGO focused on solving the politics of climate change. Previously, he worked for Burson-Marsteller (now Burson Cohn & Wolfe); E3G; WWF European Policy Office and the Energy Institute. He studied history at Queen Mary University in London.

Sebastien Lieblich is Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Solutions within the Research & Product Development team at MSCI. The Equity Solutions Group’s specific focus is centered on client-directed research and involves designing, developing and delivering services and products.

Mr. Lieblich specialized over the years in index construction and maintenance methodologies with a special focus on index rebalancing and market classification. He is also the chair of the MSCI Equity Index Committee and a regular member of MSCI Index Policy Committee.

Stanislas Dupré founded the 2° Investing Initiative and now serves as its CEO.

Previously, Stanislas Dupré was executive director of CSR consultancy Utopies consultancy after initially working as a CSR consultant and R&D manager. He has been working on 2° investing topics since 2007 when he developed the first assessment methodology for the financed emissions of banks and diversified portfolios, for example for Caisse d’Epargne/Natixis, ADEME, WWF and Friends of the Earth. In 2010, he wrote a book about the role of financial institutions in financing the energy transition.

Stanislas is also a non-executive director of a green private equity fund, a lecturer at Paris-Dauphine University and a member of the expert committees of the NYSE-Euronext Low-Carbon Index and Novethic.

Stanislas Pottier graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in 1994 and the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP Europe), in 1989. He started his career at the French Ministry of Finance, in 1994, worked as Economist at the World Bank, in Washington DC, between 1998 and 2000, before coming back to the French Ministry of Finance, Trade and Treasury Department, where Stanislas Pottier held several positions until 2005.

Between 2005 and 2007, Stanislas Pottier was advisor and then deputy Chief of Staff to Thierry Breton, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, and deputy Chief of Staff and then Chief of Staff to the Trade Minister Christine Lagarde. He followed Christine Lagarde, French Minister of Economy, Finance, Industry and Employment as Special Advisor from 2007 to 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, Stanislas Pottier was Special advisor to Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister and Ambassador of France to International Negotiations on the Arctic and the Antarctic.

Before joining AMUNDI in June 2018 as Chief Responsible Investment Officer and Member of the Executive Committee, Stanislas Pottier was Global Head for Sustainable Development for Credit Agricole SA Group from 2011 to 2018, and Member of the Group Management Committee since 2017.

Stanislas Pottier is also member of the Vigeo Eiris board, and active in several NGOs and think tanks: BBCA – advocating for low carbon buildings (President), FXB-France (President), Collège des directeurs du développement durable (board member).

Dr. Erlandsson is a pioneer in developing total return strategies in green fixed income. In 2009-17 he ran the global credit and SSA portfolios at The Fourth Swedish State Pension Fund, AP4, and built the fund’s green bond franchise.  Prior to that, Erlandsson worked as a quantitative strategist at Barclays Capital developing hedge-fund strategies and conducting credit macro research.

His publication record includes books such as Systematic CDS index trading (2008), Empirical Analysis of the Credit Cycle (2009) and articles as Credit alpha and CO2 reduction: A portfolio manager approach (2017), Bond vigilantes and climate change (2018). He sits on the board of CICERO Shades of Green and is an affiliated researcher at the Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies, Lund University, where he also earned his Ph.D. in econometrics.

Valeria Dinershteyn has joined Northern Trust Asset Management in the newly created role of Sustainable Investment Specialist (Vice President) for the EMEA markets.  Based in Amsterdam, Dinershteyn is focused on developing and broadening our Sustainable Investing proposition, as well as supporting EMEA clients on their sustainable investment journey.

Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2019 , Dinershteyn worked at Kempen Capital Management, an asset manager in the Netherlands, within the Responsible Investment team.  There she covered environmental issues (e.g., climate risks incorporation in company analysis, carbon footprinting, scenario analysis), engagement activities with companies and helped clients to develop and implement their RI policies. She was recognized in the market for one of the highlights of her work at Kempen, the annual RI report, which in 2018  received an award from Responsible Investor for the best RI report of a mid-size asset manager.

Valeria has broad international experience having studied in Russia, the USA and the Netherlands. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Social Studies from St. Petersburg Polytechnical University (Russia) and a Master’s degree in Financial Management From Nyenrode Business University (the Netherlands). Next to her passion for sustainability issues, she is interested in languages and speaks fluent English, Russian, and Dutch, and studied German, Hebrew and Korean.

Vincent Hamelink serves as Chief Investment Officer and has ultimate responsibility for Candriam’s Investment Management team and strategies, a position he holds since April 2011. He is also member of Candriam’s Group Strategic Committee.

Vincent joined BNP Paribas (which became Cordius Asset Management in 1996) in 1994 as Financial Analyst and became Fund Manager in 1995. He was appointed Head of Fixed Income of Cordius Asset Management in 1997. After the merger into Dexia AM (which became Candriam in 2014) he held the position of Global Head of Fixed Income before becoming Chief Investment Officer for Traditional Asset Management first, and then on a global basis. It is notably under Vincent’s guidance that Candriam developed and strengthened its expertise in responsible investment. This expertise now represents more than a quarter of the company’s assets under management.

Vincent holds a Master’s degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences and a Master’s degree in Fiscal Sciences. He is a CFA Charter holder since 2001.

Wilhelm Mohn is head of the Sustainability team in the Corporate Governance department at Norges Bank Investment Management. Norges Bank Investment Management manages the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). It is the investment management division of the Norwegian Central Bank. The GPFG is invested globally in listed equities and bonds, as well as listed and unlisted real estate. Mr Mohn has previously worked in the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, amongst others on responsible investment. His experience spans the sustainability topics. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Willem Schramade is a fund manager guided by conviction; he has been involved in Sustainable Finance for a long time.
Within NN Investment Partners, he manages the NN (L) Global Equity Impact Opportunities fund. Previously, he was analyst at Robeco, with a specialization on the impact of sustainability criteria on equity valuation. He also worked at PwC as a valuation consultant.
In parallel, he teaches sustainable finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, where he obtained a PhD in corporate finance in 2006.
Willem is also writing and contributing to high level publications, his most recent one was in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance entitled Bridging Sustainability and Finance: The Value Driver Adjustment Approach.

Willemijn studied economics at the University of Utrecht and the London School of Economics. She joined Ortec Finance, a company specializing in building software to support complex financial decision making, in 2018. Together with Lisa Eichler she drives the integration of climate and ESG across Ortec Finance’s investment decision tooling, especially in forward looking scenario based strategic modeling tools (ALM/SAA analysis). Before joining Ortec Finance she was a member of the RI-team at MN where she led the work related to climate change policy, integrating climate change risks and opportunities into investment strategies and climate change related corporate and regulatory engagement. Willemijn also has strong experience in the public sector through ten years of experience having worked at the Dutch Treasury and the Dutch Foreign Office in various capacities related to international finance and sustainability. She was lead on climate finance for Dutch UNFCCC negotiation team.