During a career spanning three decades, Amit Bando has conducted economic analyses and business case assessments while leading global initiatives on clean energy and climate change, green finance, water security, forestry/natural resource and land use management. A proven leader in motivating talented and diverse staff in multicultural environments, he also specializes in evaluation and policy design to provide results-focused, human centered, science-based and market-driven solutions for sustainable impact. Amit has pioneered the use of economic instruments for environmental protection and helped Fortune 100 firms understand development-finance issues.

Amit has developed new analytical techniques to evaluate projects for the UN IPCC and designed 30+ clean energy projects across 25 nations. Using the Equator Principles, in consultation with locally affected communities, he has secured funds from commercial banks and investors in the cement, pulp & paper, steel, sugar and textile sectors to focus on social/community standards and responsibility that include robust standards for indigenous peoples and labor groups. The Equator Principles have helped spur the development of responsible environmental and social management practices in the financial sector and banking industry. Working for USAID, NASA and other U.S. Government agencies, he has provided expert analysis related to minority, women and under-represented populations by advising on program design and implementation plans while also coordinating ministerial-level decisions on sector-specific energy policies, regulations and standards to promote financing of clean energy and energy efficiency initiatives for G-20 and more than 40 other nations.

Amit was a Senior Advisor in the Office of General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has worked for Winrock International, the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) as well as for the Asian Development Bank and The World Bank. A popular speaker at global forums, he has authored several publications including the widely used Economic Evaluation of Environmental Impacts.

Amy Hepburn is the CEO of the Investor Leadership Network, a 2018 G7-born group of 14 asset managers and asset owners with over $9 trillion assets under management who are committed to sustainability and long-term growth.

Amy is a recognized impact investing expert and social entrepreneur with deep expertise on gender lens social investments and the care of children in crises. In this capacity, she has spent 20 years driving social change globally in the private, non-profit and public sectors through the creation of unique public/private partnerships and investing for high impact social returns.

Her partners include visionary leaders and influencers, governments, social entrepreneurs, non-profits, forward thinking companies, foundations and venture philanthropists seeking innovative solutions to persistent social issues.

Amy was a Delegate on the first G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council created by Prime Minister Trudeau, and an active member of the NationSwell Council and The Global Women’s Forum on Economy and Society.

She has Faculty appointments at Duke University and George Washington University where she teaches on social impact, gender equality, the just transition, intersectional climate justice, the care of children in crises, human rights and humanitarian action.

Anuj Mittal is the Head of Europe Real Estate focusing on real estate opportunities in the United Kingdom and Europe. Anuj has been directly responsible for, or overseen, in excess of $4 billion of real estate assets at the firm. Prior to re-joining Angelo Gordon in 2008, Anuj was self-employed as a real estate developer focusing on office redevelopments in Germany and The Netherlands. Before that, Anuj worked for Cerberus Capital Management where he purchased and managed opportunistic real estate portfolios throughout Europe. Between 2004 and 2006, Anuj worked for Angelo Gordon in New York focusing on real estate opportunities in the U.S. Prior to Angelo Gordon, Anuj was a member of the U.S. investing team for the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds. Anuj holds a B.S. degree from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the board of trustees for Johns Hopkins University, and an honorary board member of the University of Baltimore Real Estate and Economic Development Program. Anuj speaks Dutch, Hindi and English.

Bob established Metrus in 2009 and created the Efficiency Services Agreement (ESA) and Sustainable Energy Services Agreement (SESA), which have become the contractual backbone for financing large-scale energy efficiency retrofit and renewable energy projects. Bob helped develop and grow the Energy as a Service market, which is currently a $5.4 billion industry. Previously, Bob was vice president of energy efficiency at MMA Renewable Ventures where he directed the company’s overall energy efficiency financing business and identified and negotiated investment opportunities with ESCOs and large commercial and industrial energy users.

Bob has developed and implemented over $500 million of large-scale energy efficiency projects and clean energy investment programs in the U.S. and in emerging global markets for utilities, major energy end-users, government agencies, export credit agencies, and international donors. Bob previously served as a Board Member for the California Energy Efficiency Industry Council and was an entrepreneur in residence for the California Clean Energy Fund. He has authored articles published in leading sustainable energy publications including Bloomberg, GreenBiz and Utility Dive. Bob has an MA degree in international business from Tufts University’s Fletcher School and a BA in international politics and economics from Middlebury College.

Brad Foster joined Bloomberg in June 2017 and manages the Data Content group within Enterprise Data.
Brad is focused on transforming how financial firms consume and use data by providing the most comprehensive, high quality and complete enterprise content offering to customers. In his role, Brad has a global remit that includes Reference Data, Regulatory & Accounting Products, Risk & Investment Data Analytics, including Bloomberg’s Liquidity Assessment (LQA) product, ESG & Climate Risk data and Exchange and Contributed Pricing.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Brad spent almost 20 years on the sell-side in multiple locations including London, Tokyo and New York. He worked at Deutsche Bank as a Managing Director in trading and was responsible for various front office desks across debt, FX and credit trading, front office risk management where he managed a team that built cross-product risk, margin and portfolio analytics and looked after regulatory initiatives including Basel III / CRD IV and Dodd-Frank Uncleared Margin. Prior to Deutsche Bank he was at Credit Suisse First Boston in the market risk management group.

Carine Smith Ihenacho is responsible for the governance and compliance area, which includes ownership and responsible investment activities, control and operational risk, compliance and legal services.

Carine Smith Ihenacho was appointed Chief Governance and Compliance Officer 6 October 2020. She joined Norges Bank Investment Management in August 2017 as Global Head of Ownership Strategies and was promoted to Chief Corporate Governance Officer on 1 January 2018.

Prior to joining Norges Bank Investment Management, Ms Ihenacho was Vice President Legal and Chief Compliance Officer in Statoil ASA. She has more than 20 years’ experience as a lawyer, working in both financials and the oil and gas industry, as well as in law firms.
She also has extensive board experience.

Ihenacho holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, a Master of Law from Harvard Law School and a Master of Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Chris is a climate change and environmental policy expert with over 25 years’ of public and private sector experience. He is responsible for managing Impax’s engagement in the development of policy issues and providing insights on policy to the firm’s investment teams.

Before joining Impax in 2019, Chris worked at Ricardo Energy & Environment for eight years as Director of Climate Change, Clean Growth and Strategic Partnerships. Here he was responsible for overseeing key projects in the aforementioned areas as well as building relationships with clients in the public and financial services sectors. Prior to this he worked for 10 years at the heart of the UK Government’s work on climate change, including leading the UK’s implementation of the EU Emissions Trading System and heading the UK Delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Chris began his career as a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he worked on a variety of civil, criminal and public law litigation relating to the impact of pollution on the environment and human health.

Chris graduated with a BA Hons in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1990 and later went on to achieve a Master of Laws in Environmental Law from University College London in 2002.