Ahmad Wani serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of One Concern. Ahmad directs the company’s day-to-day operations and is responsible for developing and executing its long-term strategy and vision.

A native of Kashmir, South Asia, Ahmad survived the devastation of major disasters that impacted his family and community, providing the inspiration that fuels his commitment to building global resilience. Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional disaster solutions, Ahmad and his team at One Concern are using artificial intelligence to revolutionize the world’s understanding of natural phenomena sciences and quantify resilience from catastrophic perils, empowering leaders to measure, mitigate, and monetize risk, so disasters aren’t so disastrous.

Ahmad holds a Graduate Degree in Structural Engineering, focusing on seismic engineering, from Stanford University. Before attending Stanford, Ahmad graduated top of his class at the National Institute of Technology, India, earning a Gold Medal for distinction. Before moving to California, Ahmad performed structural design and risk analysis for critical infrastructure for the Central Government of India.

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.

Bertrand Millot leads the Stewardship Investing team, which is responsible for defining and implementing CDPQ’s strategic directions, including integrating ESG factors into all activities and deploying the climate strategy. His responsibilities have three aspects: helping investment teams structure impactful investment opportunities (particularly with regard to social, climate and energy transition investments); managing risks related to ESG, climate change and reputation and contributing to the organization’s outreach in collaboration with the CDPQ Global team.

Mr. Millot is one of the architects of CDPQ’s climate change strategy and a seasoned investor in infrastructure and corporate debt in emerging markets, fields where ESG considerations have historically been at the forefront. At CDPQ since 2015, he previously held various positions in risk management and stewardship investing, including Business Unit Risk Manager for the Fixed Income, Capital Solutions and Cross-functional Risk portfolios. He also served as Head of Climate Risk and Issuesand led the Stewardship Investing team.

Before joining CDPQ, Mr. Millot was CEO and CIO at Cordiant Capital, an emerging market corporate debt fund manager. Earlier in his career, he was active in infrastructure project finance with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, U.K. and with
BNP Paribas in Paris, France.

Mr. Millot holds an MBA from McGill University, a Master’s in Engineering from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers in Paris and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D designation).

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.

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was elected to serve as our city’s budget watchdog and chief accountability officer on November 2nd, 2021. A longtime champion of more inclusive and transparent government, Lander helped bring participatory budgeting to NYC to give residents a voice in how city government invests in their neighborhoods. Throughout his work, Lander has taken an innovative, data-driven, and collaborative approach to tackling some of NYC’s biggest challenges, from reckless driving to infrastructure investments.

Lander’s background in community organizing and urban planning informs his work to make government work better for all New Yorkers. First elected to the City Council in 2009, Lander spearheaded efforts to protect workers and build a more equitable economy, working closely with labor advocates to win groundbreaking laws to end unfair firings and establish a fair work week for fast food workers, protect freelancers from wage theft, ban discriminatory credit checks for employment, and guarantee a living wage for app-based drivers and delivery workers.

Prior to holding public office, Lander spent 15 years in the nonprofit sector as the director of the Fifth Avenue Committee and the Pratt Center for Community Development. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Meg Barnette, President and CEO of NonProfit New York, and their children, Marek and Rosa.

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.

Dan is responsible for increasing GRESB’s international scope and impact by engaging institutional investors; expanding GRESB participation among private equity firms, multi-national lenders and REITs; establishing industry partnerships; and driving capital market demand for ESG data.

As a representative of GRESB based in the Americas region, Dan covers multiple roles including accelerating market adoption for ESG data; acquiring new GRESB investor members; promoting increased GRESB participation; fulfilling North American speaking engagements; and developing new capital market / product opportunities.

He previously served the U.S. Green Building Council as Senior Fellow for Business Strategy and Finance by providing leadership on a range of topics including green bond underwriting guidelines, asset valuation, lender underwriting, and related business topics. Additional professional experience includes tenures at Russell Real Estate and CBRE, and participation in several start-up technology companies.
He earned his Masters in Real Estate Finance and Development from Harvard, his MBA from Southern Methodist University, and is an alumni of the University of Wisconsin real estate program. Mr. Winters is a former lecturer at Colvin School of Real Estate at University of Maryland, and current Counselor of Real Estate.

David Carlin leads the climate risk and TCFD program for UNEP- Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). He currently is running a pilot for over 50 global financial institutions 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.

David has worked as a Principal in Finance, Risk, and Public Policy for Oliver Wyman 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.

Dawn M. Martin serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Program Officer for Ceres and leads the Program Management Team. In this capacity, she oversees the leadership and management of Ceres’ campaigns and initiatives, innovation, and evaluation department, as well as the Company, Investor, and Policy Networks. Dawn joined Ceres as its Chief Operating Officer in 2015. In that role, she led Ceres’ programs and communication teams, while also overseeing the development of the organization’s five-year Strategic Plan focused on integration, alignment, and collaboration to enhance organizational performance and impact during a period of rapid growth.

Divya Mankikar is Global Head of ESG Market Engagement. She brings over 15 years of sustainable investment experience to S&P Global. She is responsible for leading S&P Sustainable1’s efforts to engage with policy makers, regulators, standard setters, multi-lateral agencies, trade bodies and key market participants.

She joined S&P Global from CalPERS as Head of Sustainable Investment and Climate Strategy in the office of the CEO. Divya is a co-founder of Climate Action 100+ – a global initiative supported by investors representing over $54 trillion that seeks a low-carbon transition through collaborative engagement of systemically important carbon emitters.

She holds a BA/MA from Boston University in Energy and Environmental Analysis, an International MBA in finance from IE Business School in Madrid, and an MA in Law and Diplomacy focused on business and human rights law from Tufts University’s Fletcher School.

Jane “Carter” Ingram has 20 years of experience at the forefront of nature conservation and rural development in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the United States. At Pollination, Carter is an Executive Director and leads work at the intersection of business, climate and nature with food, fiber, and agriculture business, associations and NGOs. Before joining Pollination, Carter was a Senior Manager in EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice where she advised companies in designing and implementing sustainability strategies, programs, and impact measurement frameworks, with a focus on natural capital. Carter’s previous experiences include leading the Ecosystem Services program and the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Carter completed a Post-doctoral fellowship at the Earth Institute of Columbia University and an M.Sc. and D.Phil. from the School of Geography and the Environment of Oxford University. She has co-edited two books and written over 60 articles, reports and publications on natural resource management, climate change, and economic development. She is an Adjunct Professor in the School for Foreign Service at Georgetown University and serves on the SNAPP Science Advisory Council, the Technical Advisory Council for the UNDP Equator Initiative, served on the International Working Group for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, and recently co-led a USG working group on Natural Capital Accounting in the United States.

Elizabeth Small is General Counsel and Head of Policy, CDP North America. In her role, she leads on legal and strategic business matters and oversees policy-related initiatives across North America. Additionally, Elizabeth advises executives and the CDP North America Board of Directors, and serves on the organization’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (JEDIA) global task force. Previously, Elizabeth worked as a Global Litigator with Howrey LLP and with Hemenway & Barnes, focusing on global complex commercial litigation, antitrust and intellectual property law. She is also an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University, where she teaches and writes about Bioethics.

As Project Director at Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA), Gerrit leads the organization’s work on the Every Action Counts (EAC) Coalition. EAC was founded in 2021 and is a global network of leading players in digital finance and commerce, with combined access to 2.7bn customers, and joined around the pledge to empower 1 billion people to shift towards more carbon-efficient and nature-positive lifestyles by 2025. Moreover, Gerrit represents GDFA as a Knowledge Partner in the Taskforce on Nature Markets (TNM) and as the host of a working group on sustainable ecommerce in Southeast Asia. Earlier, Gerrit has been leading the Swiss business of F10, a global incubator & accelerator network for the financial services industry. In this capacity, he initiated a climate fintech-focused program, co-authored the Green Fintech Action Plan for the Swiss finance ministry, and served as a board member at F10’s investment arm. 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 the past 12 years, and led mobile payment projects at Swisscom. Gerrit holds an MBA from IMD International in Lausanne and a BBA in Banking & Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Between 2015 and 2019, Ms. Andersen was the Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Ms. Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability, strategy and operations. She has led work on a range of issues including agriculture, environmental management, biodiversity conservation, climate change, infrastructure, energy, transport, and water resources management and hydro-diplomacy.

Between 1999 and 2014, Ms. Andersen held several leadership positions at the World Bank including Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa; Vice President for Sustainable Development and Head of the CGIAR Fund Council.

Prior to her 15 years at the World Bank, Ms. Andersen worked 12 years at the United Nations, first on drought and desertification, beginning with the UN Sudano-Sahelian Office. In 1992, she was appointed UNDP’s Water and Environment Coordinator for the Arab Region.

Ms. Andersen holds a Bachelors from the London Metropolitan University North and a Masters in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Ivan Frishberg is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Amalgamated Bank where he leads the firm’s work on Corporate Social Responsibility and it’s strategy on ESG integration. As a commercial banker, Ivan has been instrumental in rallying bank sector commitments to combat climate change, including growing the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). Under Ivan’s leadership, Amalgamated has taken a l leadership role within (UNEP FI) in helping to develop guidance for how banks set targets to reduce financed emissions. Ivan is on the Steering Group of the NZBA and a member of and on the Advisory Panel for the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero.

Under Ivan’ leadership Amalgamated Bank was the first U.S. bank to set and have validated climate targets under the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), and the first US bank to set portfolio wide targets under the United Nations guidelines for target setting.

James McMahon founded The Climate Service with the vision that every economic decision on Earth should incorporate climate change. The company’s risk analytics software as a service gives investors and corporate managers the financial information they need to incorporate climate-related risk into their decisions.

McMahon began his career in global change by studying physics at Harvard University, and atmospheric chemistry at MIT under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Mario Molina.

McMahon went on to accumulate 10 years experience inside a multinational corporation, including managing Coca-Cola’s consumer marketing technology group. He then led three small technology firms as COO and CEO. He served for 6 years as Senior Advisor to the Director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. He was CEO of The Collider – a groundbreaking nonprofit innovation center for climate solutions.

John Sheffield is a Senior Director in the Data Innovation and Impact Group of ICE and leads design and development of ESG products for MBS. John came to ICE through the 2021 acquisition of risQ Inc and Level 11 Analytics, where he was a founding partner and Chief Data Scientist responsible for their machine learning platform in geospatial alternative data. Before making the jump to ESG data, John was a co-founder of Seven Bridges Genomics, a peta-scale biomedical data platform, and earned an MSc in Applied Statistics as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford.

Jonathan Hackett is the Co-Head, BMO Energy Transition Group and Head, Sustainable Finance and Managing Director. In these roles he advises clients on opportunities as they navigate the transition to a low carbon economy, supports clients in navigating the impact of ESG on their access to capital, and advises on sustainable financing structures. Jonathan’s team also includes BMO’s $250MM impact investment fund which has a mandate to invest in companies that are producing solutions in the sustainability and energy transition space. Prior to joining BMO in 2017, Jonathan was a principal with the Boston Consulting Group and also a researcher in residence at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics where he completed his doctoral research in Quantum Gravity and Topology.

Jonny has held a number of senior board-level roles throughout his career including:
• Council member at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) from 2012-21 and chair of IUCN’s Private Sector Task Force for six years during this time
• Chair and board member of Cambridge Conservation Initiative, a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and nine leading internationally focused nature conservation organisations – 2019-22
• Member – World Economic Forum Biodivercities initiative – 2020 – present
• Board member – Science-based Targets Network – 2020 – present
• Trustee, John Ellerman Foundation – 2021 – present
• Chair and co-founder – World Forum on Natural Capital – 2013-2018

In his spare time, Jonny is a keen field naturalist with interests in botany and bryology. He plays tennis, five-a-side football, table football and coaches squash. He has wide interests including sustainable urban design, Italian Renaissance art and early 20th century American literature.

Kristina is Persefoni’s Deputy GC and SVP of Global Regulatory Climate Disclosure. She joined Persefoni from the Securities and Exchange Commission where she was Sr. Counsel to the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, focused on climate and ESG. There, she helped lead the drafting of the SEC’s climate disclosure rule proposals, and worked closely with other US regulatory agencies and the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and foreign regulatory agencies on climate disclosure policy issues. Before joining the SEC, Kristina was Director of Sustainability at the law firm Latham & Watkins. While at Latham, she built the firm’s sustainability program and co-led its ESG practice.

Kristina holds a BA from Duke University, a JD from the University of Colorado, and an MBA in Sustainability from Yale University.

Lauren is a senior leader and global expert in sustainable finance She leads a team committed to growing S&P Global’s ESG business with functional responsibilities for commercial strategy, go to market, product specialists, client engagement and marketing.

Prior to joining S&P Lauren was a member of the board and senior management team of Trucost responsible for the successful sale of the business to S&P Dow Jones Indices in 2016 and integrating the Trucost business into S&P Global Market Intelligence in 2018. She was integrally involved in a number of major market innovations such as developing the world’s first portfolio carbon footprint and helped grow the Trucost business from being a start up to a market leader in climate finance. Prior to Trucost, Lauren worked in Equity Research in the fund management industry and was a consultant at the UK Government’s Department for International Development working on the Millennium Development Goals.

Lauren is a regular speaker and respected commentator on sustainable finance, quoted in publications such as the Economist, Investment Week, IPE and The Actuary. In 2019 she was a speaker in Davos at the World Economic Forum on, “The future of finance”. Lauren holds a BA & MA from Cambridge University in Archaeology & Anthropology and an MSc in Anthropology & International Development from the London School of Economics.

Lesley Hunter oversees the design and implementation of ACORE’s programs, initiatives and work streams; aligns operations and supports the Chief Executive Officer in carrying out the organization’s mission. She has previous experience overseeing the creation of ACORE’s publications, managing the National Defense and Security Initiative and developing content for programs and events. Before joining ACORE, she held positions at the United Nations Foundation and the Global Energy Network Institute. She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where she studied international relations, anthropology and history.

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.

Luke Oliver leads the KraneShares Climate solutions business building innovative products that provide access to unique markets within this growing investment universe. In addition to curating the firm’s climate, carbon and impact strategies, Luke works closely with clients to educate on the asset class and client implementation strategies. He is a regular industry commentator on TV, press, and online media and is responsible for digestible research on climate topics. Prior to joining KraneShares, Luke built and ran the $21bn US XTrackers ETF business at DWS (formerly Deutsche Asset Management) where he pioneered currency hedging, onshore China, and more recently ESG strategies which were among the first to recognize the need for value-aligned portfolios. Prior to this, he was the portfolio manager of $16bn in commodity assets across the PowerShares DB Commodity ETF suite. Luke has a reputation for building strong, diverse teams, creating profitable businesses, and bringing innovative solutions to market. His 20-year financial career also included time on the capital markets sell-side. This diverse experience has allowed Luke to identify the most powerful emerging trends in the investment landscape. “Pricing carbon emissions and decarbonizing the global economy is the single greatest challenge, and opportunity, we will ever be presented with. I have no doubt this will be our mission for the next 20 years and it must not fail.”

Mark is the CEO of FSD Africa.  Mark’s early career (1989-2003) was in investment banking in the City of London where he advised growth companies on M&A and capital raising. He has now been involved in financial sector development in Africa for well over a decade.

From 2004-2009 he was CEO of FinMark Trust, based in Johannesburg. He then moved back to London where he became an independent consultant specialising in financial sector development in developing countries, mainly in Africa.  He joined CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, as Director of Investment Innovation from 2011-2012 and moved to Nairobi to set up FSD Africa up in December 2012.

Mark has written papers and articles on financial sector development and was commissioning editor for a 2010 book of case studies on financial innovation in Africa – Real Money, New Frontiers. He has an MA in modern languages from Cambridge University.

Michelle is Senior Director, Head of ESG Ratings – Americas at Sustainable Fitch. Previously, Michelle led two separate research teams within Research Products at Sustainalytics. She has been a sector manager leading both a Financials research team and the Extractives research team. During this time, Michelle taught the capstone project course for Seneca College’s post-grad Green Business Certificate Program for 2 years. Prior to joining Sustainalytics, Michelle worked for TD Bank creating ESG and sustainability programs throughout the organization. She represented TD Bank at the UNPRI, Equator Principles and other similar industry associations.

Michelle began her career in ESG, RI and sustainability 24 years ago, at Innovest (part of MSCI), where she spent 11 years contributing to the growth of ESG ratings for institutional investors. Michelle holds a BA from York University in Toronto and is an accredited Environmental Professional (EP) in Canada.

Nathalie Borgeaud has more than 30 years of experience from the financial industry, with a longstanding focus on sustainability.

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

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

Nízida joined Wespath in December 2019. As manager of Fixed Income for Wespath and its subsidiaries’ investment programs, she shares responsibility for the oversight of the fixed income investment program. Previously, Nízida was at Nuveen Investments, where she served in several leadership roles. This included managing director, head of investment due diligence, where she led the assessment of new strategies and managing director, head of fixed income, where she oversaw fixed income asset managers and strategies. Prior to Nuveen, Nízida held several portfolio manager positions in domestic equities and across public and private debt markets at Allstate Investments. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüéz in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nízida is a CFA Charterholder.

Patricia specializes in measuring sustainability and impact to help companies, governments, and individuals make environmentally and socially sustainable decisions. She has extensive experience in crafting strategic plans and evaluating major development initiatives for public and private organizations from a variety of sectors, as well as supporting financial stakeholders to implement sustainable finance strategies.

Prior to joining Clarity AI, Patricia was the East Africa Regional Director for IDinsight, a global advisory, data analytics, and research organization on social impact. She also worked for Dalberg Global Development Advisors, Deworm the World and McKinsey & Company. Patricia holds a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Spanish Polytechnic University, a master’s degree in Aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Public Administration in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Professor Easton’s expertise in accounting and valuation is widely recognized by the academic research community and by the legal community. Professor Easton has been qualified as an expert witness in the Delaware Chancery Court and he has consulted on valuation issues for investment firms and accounting firms in Australia, the UK, and the USA.

Professor Easton holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. He holds a graduate degree from the University of New England and a PhD in Business Administration (majoring in accounting and finance) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Easton’s research on corporate valuation has been published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. Professor Easton has served as an Associate Editor for 11 leading accounting journals and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. He is an Editor of the Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Easton has held appointments at the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University, Macquarie University, the Australian Graduate School of Management, the University of Melbourne, and Nyenrode University. He is a member of the Scientific Council of CentER, Tilburg University and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching and in research. Professor Easton regularly teaches accounting analysis and security valuation to MBAs.

He, together with John Wilde, Mary Lea McAnally, and Robert Halsey, is author of “Financial Accounting for MBAs,” now in its sixth publication; “Financial & Managerial Accounting for MBAs,” authored with Robert Halsey, Mary Lea McAnally, Al Hartgraves and Wayne Morse is in its fourth edition; “Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation,” authored with Mary Lea McAnally, Patricia Fairfield, Xiao-Jun Zhang and Robert Halsey is currently in its third edition; and “Estimating the Cost of Capital Implied by Market Prices and Accounting Data,” was published in Foundations and Trends in Accounting in 2009. He is one of the founding editors of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly.

Kirsten leads the Ceres Investor Network and all investor initiatives. She also represents Ceres on the West Coast as Director of Ceres’ California office. Prior to joining Ceres, she served as Chief Deputy Treasurer under California Treasurer Phil Angelides and Director of the Treasurer’s environmental financing authorities. Prior to her government service, Kirsten worked in the labor movement as Chief of Staff for the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. With the California Sierra Club and the Ella Baker Center, Kirsten co-founded the California Apollo Alliance. For six years, she chaired the Center for Labor Research and Education at University of California, Berkeley and taught at Boalt Hall School of Law. As a lawyer with the firm of Beeson, Tayer and Bodine she represented unions and their pension plans. In her early career she worked as a community and cultural organizer in Durban, South Africa. Kirsten holds a BA from Yale College in music, a JD from Hastings College of Law and an M.Div. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific. She is an Episcopal priest, wife and mother of two college age sons.

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

Rosalind Kainyah MBE is an authority on Sustainability and responsible business with over 30 years of combined legal, international, executive and board level experience.

Rosalind is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She has worked with companies and organisations including Linklaters, Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, De Beers, Tullow Oil plc, the United Nations Environment Programme and ERM, and on projects across Africa, in Western and Eastern Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the South Pacific.

Rosalind is also an experienced non-executive director, chairing Sustainability, Nominations, Remuneration and Governance Board Committees. She is currently serves on the boards of discoverIE plc, Gem Diamonds Limited, CalBank Plc, Lekela and BTE Renewables.

Rosalind holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Ghana; a bachelor of laws degree from University of London.

Saumya Mehrotra is Associate Principal, Sustainable Investment at Qontigo, which was created through a merger of Axioma, STOXX and DAX by the Deutsche Börse Group. In her role, Saumya is responsible for sustainable investment related research, client engagement, regulatory tracking and integration support to the index and analytics product teams.

Saumya previously worked at the Principles for Responsible Investment where she helped develop PRI’s presence amongst US based asset owners and investment managers. She later worked as a Stewardship Specialist in the PRI’s Climate team.

Currently based in New York, Saumya holds an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She has prior experience in energy policy analysis at the Climate Institute, and WWF on capacity building for sustainable development programs in critical forest landscapes in India.

Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He has also been a faculty member at the Duke University, Emory University and the University of Washington. Professor Rajgopal’s research interests span financial reporting, earnings quality, fraud, executive compensation and corporate culture. His research is frequently cited in the popular press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist. He teaches fundamental analysis of financial statements for investors, managers and entrepreneurs and a PhD seminar on accounting regulation.

Key awards include 2006 and 2016 American Accounting Association (AAA) Notable Contribution to the Literature award, 2006 and 2016 Graham and Dodd Scroll Prize given by the Financial Analysts Journal, and the 2008, 2012 and 2015 Glen McLaughlin Award for Research in Accounting Ethics.

He is the Departmental Editor of the Accounting track of Management Science. He is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Accounting and Economics and an ex-editor at Contemporary Accounting Research. He was on the editorial board of The Accounting Review from 2003-2011. He is one of the founding editors of Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly.

Sonja’s research work covers global debt and sovereign debt policy issues, financial stability risks, sustainable finance, and capital markets development in emerging and frontier markets. She oversees the IIF’s Weekly Insight, which offers a concise perspective on global financial markets in the context of topical economic and political developments, and the quarterly Global Debt Monitor, which looks across mature and emerging economies for debt-related vulnerabilities such as the rapid buildup in EM corporate debt levels.
Sonja leads IIF policy work on sustainable finance and infrastructure investment, including advocacy and liaison efforts vis-à-vis the G20, the multilaterals and the international regulatory community.

Sonja has spent over 20 years in banking and financial markets, most recently with Nomura International in London, where she was Chief Equity Strategist. Previously she was Head of East European Economics and Senior European Bond Analyst, also for Nomura. Earlier positions included stints as a U.S. economist and bank credit analyst in New York and Los Angeles. She has taught undergraduate microeconomics at U.C. Berkeley, and spent several years with the Berkeley-Stanford Program on Soviet International Behavior. Sonja’s work is widely cited in the financial press, including Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times; she is a regular speaker at industry conferences and a frequent commentator for financial television and radio.

Stephanie Pfeifer is the CEO of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Stephanie has led the IIGCC since 2005 and has overseen its expansion into a pan-European investor group during that time. She sits on the Steering Committees for Climate Action 100+ and the Investor Agenda, the Executive Committee of the Paris Aligned Investment Initiative and currently chairs the Steering Committee for the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. In 2022, Stephanie received an OBE for her services to climate finance in Her Majesty the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours List.

Prior to her role at IIGCC, Stephanie worked in investment banking for over seven years, including as a senior economist at Morgan Grenfell and a VP at Deutsche Bank in London. She holds an MSc with distinction in Environmental Studies, a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MA in Economics from Exeter University.

Susan McGeachie is head of the BMO Climate Institute, a virtual hub to convene a strategically planned system of technical expertise, enabling policies, incentives, and investment to advance decarbonization and climate resilience for BMO’s clients and the bank. She brings to this role over 20 years of experience identifying, evaluating and managing climate change-related risks and strategic positioning opportunities. Following her years in ESG research and analytics, she held leadership positions in management and engineering consulting firms. Susan is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto where she teaches a graduate course in climate finance, and a member of the Canadian Climate Governance Experts panel. Susan was recently named one of twenty-six Canadian Climate Champions by the Canada Climate Law Initiative and the British High Commission ahead of COP26. In 2014 she was named to the Clean50 and Clean 16 lists of practitioners, which recognize contributions to advancing sustainable capitalism.

Susan Uthayakumar leads the company’s sustainability and energy solutions business. In this capacity, she is responsible for evaluating and scaling both existing and emerging energy solutions across the Prologis platform and for ensuring that Prologis continues to be the leader in sustainability in the logistic real estate industry.

Prior to joining Prologis, Susan was president of Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Business Division. During her 16-year tenure with the company, she was instrumental in transforming Schneider Electric to a digital power and automation technology company by driving sustainability, efficiency and resiliency. Before that, she was CEO of Schneider Canada. Uthayakumar recently was recognized as a 2021 Environment+Energy Leader 100 Honoree for successfully delivering climate mitigation action to enterprise customers.

Previously, Susan led strategy and M&A projects globally with McCain Foods Limited, an international leader in the frozen food industry, and held various leadership positions with Deloitte, a global advisory firm.

Susan has an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with a focus on international business practices. In addition, she holds a Master of Accounting (MAcc) and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo. Susan has also completed the Women’s Senior Leadership Program and Executive Scholar Certification from the Kellogg School of Management and holds the Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designations.

Truman Semans is Chief Executive Officer of OS-Climate (OS-C), a part of the Linux Foundation (LF). OS-Climate a breakthrough Open Source solution for climate-aligned finance, investing, and financial regulation. Using the proven Linux Foundation approach for community-driven projects to solve complex challenges, OS-Climate is a non-profit data and modeling platform that enables investment decisionmakers to run scenario-based predictive analysis for accurately forecasting and pricing risk and opportunity related to physical climate impacts and economic transition. Responding to the universal call for more rigorous, transparent, and affordable climate data, OS-C’s Data Commons will provide corporate and other climate related data as a public good.

Previously, Truman was CEO of Element Capital Advisors, helping family offices and foundations integrate climate and ESG into their portfolios. He was a Partner of strategy consultancy GreenOrder, helping clients including private equity firms, Morgan Stanley, Google, GM, GE, Duke Energy, SABIC, and DuPont drive growth and profitability through investments in environmental innovation, resource efficiency, and clean technology. Truman led the Pew Business Environmental Leadership Council, and he co-founded the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) and the U.S. Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance (USPREF). Truman consulted with McKinsey & Co., served as the U.S. Treasury Department International Economist for global environment, and was the financial mechanisms lead on the U.S. Climate Change Negotiating Team.

He has an MBA and BA from Duke University and a Masters in International Economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He serves on the Investment Committee of the National Wildlife Federation and the Advisory Board of Coast Capital, LLC.

Vikram Widge is the Senior Advisor for Climate Finance at Climate Policy Initiative where he guides financial aspects of CPI’s analytical and advisory work. With over three decades of leadership experience in climate and development finance, Vikram specializes in bridging public finance with capital markets and investors to drive a transformation to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future.

Prior to CPI, Vikram was at the International Finance Corporation, private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, for more than 25 years where he directed market-leading work on innovative finance, green bond standards, carbon pricing and markets, climate risk and adaptation, and climate-related metrics and analytics including reporting aligned with TCFD recommendations.

Vikram has demonstrated global leadership, delivering several award-winning, first-of-their-kind products linked to debt capital markets, results-based finance, and sustainable development. He has extensive experience advising investors on developing and implementing sustainable financing strategies, as well as supporting developing country governments to create investment opportunities in line with their goals.

An experienced relationship manager with a track record in business development and structuring transactions, Vikram has worked in partnership with development finance institutions, commercial banks, asset managers, corporates, climate funds, philanthropic foundations, and governments. He is also a frequent moderator and speaker on topics of climate finance, carbon pricing and markets, and mobilizing private capital. Vikram is based in Washington, DC.