Mr. Abhisheik Dhawan is currently working as Sustainable Finance and Partnerships Specialist with UNCDF. In this role, he is responsible for creating innovative blended finance vehicles as well as lead partnerships efforts for UNCDF at a corporate level. As part of his efforts on creating innovative blended finance vehicles, he has led the creation of Climate Insurance Linked Resilient Infrastructure Finance (CILRIF) multi-stakeholder working group over the last 36 months. Prior to joining UNCDF, he worked as Director, Cleantech Practice at Business Development Bank of Canada.

With 20+ years of experience in international markets and financial services, he has worked with banks and technology companies, including start-ups, in India and the United States, engaging with clients across continents. Over the last eight years, he has shifted focus to sustainable development. Mr. Abhisheik started banking career of over a decade with IDBI Bank at Bangalore, India’s tech capital, with a focus on the IT industry. Afterwards, he worked as Director at Standard Chartered Bank covering middle market and large corporate clients.

Mr. Abhisheik holds an MPA degree with a concentration on Economic and Energy Policy and Finance from Columbia University in New York. He also holds an MBA in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM Kozhikode), CFA-Level II and a B.Tech. in Mining Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM- Dhanbad).

Chief Executive Officer, Investor Leadership Network
Amy Hepburn is the CEO of the Investor Leadership Network, a 2018 G7-born group of 12 asset managers and asset
owners with over $10 trillion assets under management who are committed to accelerating the transition to a
sustainable and inclusive global economy.
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.

Andrew Flynn – Director, Climate & ESG Solutions
Ortec Finance

As Director within Ortec Finance’s Climate & ESG Solutions, Andrew is primarily responsible for partnering with institutional investors seeking to more effectively integrate climate risks and opportunities within their investment process, along with enabling them with their sustainability goals, regulatory requirements and transition to net-zero.

With over ten years of experience across the technology and sustainability sectors, Andrew undertakes a consultative approach to adapt to an organization’s evolving sustainability and ESG requirements as well the various different approaches towards sustainability. He joined Ortec Finance in 2023 from Clarity AI where he supported decision-makers with their varied regulatory alignment alongside optimizing their organization’s social and environmental impact through the utilization of technology and scientific research.

Andrew holds a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Aberdeen.

Aparna Shrivastava is DFC’s Deputy Chief Climate Officer. She is a climate adaptation and international development specialist with a decade of experience including sustainable development and humanitarian work across East Africa, Central America, and South & Southeast Asia. This experience has given her a foundational understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by communities on the frontlines of climate change. Most recently, Ms. Shrivastava worked at the intersection of climate change and finance to ensure a just transition to a low-carbon economy.

Prior to joining DFC, Ms. Shrivastava worked as the Climate Finance Lead at Mercy Corps, where she oversaw a wide range of efforts including adaptation finance research and development, private sector engagement, and high-level representation at COP24 and COP25. Along with serving on a technical expert group of UN Climate Change, she was the strategic director of a renewable energy investment group, Fettl, serving emerging markets.

A daughter of first-generation Indian immigrants, Ms. Shrivastava committed herself to understanding and deconstructing systemic injustice with a long-term vision to bridge gaps between resource-holders and the realities of those most vulnerable. Ms. Shrivastava began her career working on a wide range of sustainable development projects internationally. Alongside designing public health campaigns and gender empowerment advocacy work, her experience has ranged from the technical design of water and sanitation systems in post-conflict northern Uganda to livelihoods programs that made village women’s groups in rural India economically self-sufficient. In Kenya, Ms. Shrivastava established the regional office of a water and sanitation international NGO, which included building a lean team to oversee programming across Sub-Saharan Africa. She also advised small and medium enterprise owners in East Africa on their business models and investor strategies. Building on these experiences, she co-founded an online platform, LensShift, that facilitates critical reflection on power, privilege, and systemic injustice in the impact sector.

Ms. Shrivastava is recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper and has been a guest lecturer at Cambridge University, the London School of Economics, and Columbia University. Ms. Shrivastava holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Environmental Engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA from Oxford University.

Dr Arunabha Ghosh is the Founder and CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, as well as a member of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group. Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society and international organisations around the world. He was invited by France to advise on the COP21 climate negotiations and was actively involved in conceptualising and designing the International Solar Alliance. He is also a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network and was nominated to the UN’s Committee for Development Policy in 2018.

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 Issues
and 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)

The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP has been the MP for Kingswood since 2010. He has served in five government departments between 2015 and 2020 including as Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation twice between 2018 and 2020. In 2019, he was also appointed Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth, attending Cabinet, during which time he signed the UK’s commitment to Net Zero by 2050 into law, and helped secure the UK Presidency of COP26. Most recently, he served as the Chair of the Government’s Independent Net Zero Review, and published the 340 page ‘Mission Zero’ report in January 2023. He is currently Chair of the All Party Group on the Environment and is also a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Curtis Ravenel is currently a Senior Advisor to the Co-Chairs and Vice Chair of the Glasgow Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ) and serves as a founding member of the Secretariat for the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).  He is also as a Distinguished Fellow in Sustainable Finance at ClimateWorks Foundation, a Strategic Advisor to Persefoni Ai and Apollo Global Management and a Board Member of Context Labs BV.

From 2020-2021 he was Senior Advisor to former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, COP26 Finance Advisor and UN Special Envoy for Climate Finance.

Curtis founded the Sustainable Business & Finance Group at Bloomberg LP and served as its Global Head from 2007-2019. Reporting to the Chairman, Curtis managed teams, in partnership with multiple business lines. The program began with a focus on internal operations and targeted operating efficiencies that created environmental and financial returns. Today, over 75% of all Bloomberg employees are in LEED certified building, the company gets more than 50% of its power from clean energy and it has improved its carbon and energy efficiency by 50%, resulting in over $120 million in net operating savings.

He led the launch of Bloomberg’s signature Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) product in 2009 and introduced New Energy Finance to Bloomberg, which it acquired in 2010 (he served on the deal team), making Bloomberg the first mainstream data provider to move into the sustainable investing field. His oversaw the team responsible for developing its Sustainable Fixed Income and Green Bond strategies, and Media products covering Sustainable Business & Finance. These businesses’ combined revenue experienced an average annual growth rate of over 20% since during his tenure and are now important contributors to Bloomberg’s portfolio of products and services.

Prior to his role as Global Head of Sustainable Business & Finance, Curtis served as Financial Controller for Asia, managing accounting, tax, treasury and audit services for 23 legal entities with combined annual revenues exceeding $1 billion USD. This was preceded by leadership roles in the Capital Planning and Financial Analysis Groups.

Earlier in his career, Curtis co-managed a small real estate development group, founded a microbrewery and worked with the Recycling Advisory Council in Washington, D.C. conducting Full Cost Accounting and Life Cycle Analysis work.

Curtis is a strategic leader, public speaker and expert on innovative issues of sustainability and climate-related risks and opportunities in the business, financial, regulatory and NGO communities.  In his role as Senior Advisor to Mark Carney, he played a leading role in multiple COP26 Private Finance initiatives.  He was a member of The Institute of International Finance’s (IIF) Taskforce for Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets Operating Team, The International Financial Reporting Foundation’s (IFRS) Technical Readiness Working Group on Sustainability Standards, and helped create the Net Zero Banking Alliance’s (NZBA) and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero’s (GFANZ).

Curtis initiated Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Sustainable Finance portfolio in 2011 with a grant to establish the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), where he served on the board from 2012-2018. In 2018-2019, he served as the only non-European appointee of the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and was a founding member of the Secretariat of the U.S. Alliance for Sustainable Finance (USASF) and the UN backed Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI) comprised of leading financial sector CEOs. In addition to his service as a member of the Secretariat of TCFD, USASF, CFLI and SASB board, Curtis also served on the boards of The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (USSIF) and the Global Reporting Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR). He was awarded a David Rockefeller Fellowship with the Partnership for New York City in 2011, appointed by the Obama Administration to serve on the US chapter of the G8 Advisory Board on Impact Investing in 2013 and received the Columbia Business School Exemplary Leadership Award in 2016. Curtis holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in History from Davidson College.

Cynthia McHale is a Program Director at Ceres, a Boston-based nonprofit that works with the most influential investors and companies to tackle the world’s biggest sustainability issues, including climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity loss and just transition.

As a member of Ceres’ Investor team, Cynthia leads our Investor Engagement work which seeks to mobilize and strengthen investor influence on corporate sustainability commitments and action. Her team supports Ceres’ major investor-led initiatives including Climate Action 100+, Nature Action, and the Valuing Water Finance Initiative to spur action across industries and key sustainability priorities. Cynthia guides Ceres’ staff and supports our investors, researchers, NGOs, and other stakeholders to design and implement active ownership practices including investor-corporate dialogues, shareholder proposals, and governance campaigns. Over the past five years, Cynthia led the development and implementation of the Climate Action 100+ initiative — a global campaign to move the largest carbon-emitting companies to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Earlier in her career at Ceres, Cynthia led the Insurance Program which focused on mobilizing companies and industry regulators to take action on the physical, liability and transition risks of climate change.

Cynthia earned her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Dartmouth College and a Master of Science in Management with Highest Distinction, from Hult International Business School. Prior to joining Ceres, Cynthia was a senior global program manager at Accenture, where she started her career in strategy and operations consulting to leading financial services companies.

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 Atkin is the CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The PRI is a UN-supported organisation, with more than 5,000 signatories who collectively represent over US $121 trillion in AUM. He is responsible for the PRI’s global operations. David previously served as the Deputy CEO for AMP Capital and prior to that spent almost 13 years as the CEO for Cbus Superannuation Fund, where he saw membership grow from 500,000 to over 750,000 and AUM rise to AUD $55 billion. David has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from La Trobe University for his work in the sustainable finance field, was awarded the Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) Fund Executive of the Year in 2017 and was presented with an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Life Membership in 2020.

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.

Sir David King is the founder and chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group, as well as founder of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University. Previously he held the position of permanent Special Representative for Climate Change in the UK government from September 2013 until March 2017. He was also the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 to 2007, during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the Energy Technologies Institute.

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.

DR. MAHMOUD MOHIELDIN: UN CLIMATE CHANGE HIGH-LEVEL CHAMPION FOR EGYPT, COP27
Dr. Mohieldin, is an economist with more than 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He is an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. He has been the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda since February 2020.

He was Minister of Investment of Egypt from 2004-2010, and most recently, served as the World Bank Group Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations and Partnerships. His roles at the World Bank also included Managing Director, responsible for Human Development, Sustainable Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, and the World Bank Institute; World Bank President’s Special Envoy on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Post-2015 Development Agenda (later, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)), and Financing for Development; and Corporate Secretary and Executive Secretary to the Development Committee of the World Bank Group’s Board of Governors.

Mr. Mohieldin also served on several Boards of Directors in the Central Bank of Egypt and the corporate sector. He was a member of the Commission on Growth and Development and selected a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2005. His professional experience extends into the academic arena as a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University and as a Visiting Professor at several renowned Universities in Egypt, Korea, the UAE, the UK and the USA. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Durham University Business School. He also holds leading positions in national, regional and international research centers and economic associations.

Mr. Mohieldin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom; a Master’s in Economics and Social Policy Analysis from the University of York, United Kingdom; a Diploma of Development Economics from the University of Warwick; and a B.Sc. in Economics from Cairo University. He also participated in high-level certification programmes at Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University. In 2018, the American University in Cairo conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of Humane Letters “in recognition of renowned attainments and achievements”.

He has authored numerous publications and articles in leading journals in the fields of economics, finance and development.

On 27 December 2022, the UN Secretary-General announced the appointment of Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema of the United Republic of Tanzania as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). She assumed her responsibilities on 15 February 2023.

Prior to this role, Ms. Mrema served as the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity starting in June 2020, having previously served in an acting capacity in the role since December 2019. Prior to that, Ms. Mrema served in various capacities in her two decades at UNEP, including as the Director of the Law Division and the Deputy Director of the Ecosystems Division.

From 2009 to 2012, she served as the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat for the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals as well as served as the Acting Executive Secretary of the UNEP/ASCOBANS (Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas) as well as Interim Executive Secretary of the UNEP/Gorilla Agreement, all based in Bonn, Germany.

Before joining UNEP, she worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Republic of Tanzania and left as a Counsellor/Senior Legal Counsel. During her time with the ministry, she was also a lecturer in Public International Law and Conference Diplomacy at Tanzania’s Centre for Foreign Relations and Diplomacy. She had also served as a pro bono visiting lecturer at the University of Nairobi Law School and in the past at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Rome, Italy.

A lawyer and career diplomat with LLB (Hons) from the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, LLM from Dalhousie University, Canada and Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations and Diplomacy (Summa Cum Laude) from the Centre of Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in Dar-esSalaam, Tanzania. In 2021, the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), in collaboration with the UNEP, awarded Ms. Mrema with the Nicholas Robinson Award for Excellence in Environmental Law. This prestigious honour was bestowed in recognition of her career achievements, dedicated to advancing the environmental rule of law. In 2022, she was also awarded the Kew International Award for her work in protecting nature and has been listed on the 2021 and 2022 Most Influential African Women as selected by Avance Media. She is also the co-chair of the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosure

Eron Bloomgarden provides market intelligence and advice to investors on Climate Finance products. He is an expert in environmental

finance, green infrastructure and impact investing. Eron is also a frequent speaker who has advised governments and corporations

on many aspects of environmental finance. He is an experienced impact investor with over a decade of fund management experience.

Eron is a professor of sustainable finance at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He was Partner at Encourage Capital where he was

the Portfolio Manager of the EKO Green Carbon Fund, President of Environmental Markets at Equator LLC, and U.S. Country Director

at EcoSecurities, the world’s largest carbon credit company listed on the London Stock Exchange and acquired by JP Morgan. Eron

was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Biodiversity and Natural Capital and served on the Board of

Directors of the Environmental Markets Association. In 2018, Eron was a TED Resident in a program. He holds an M.P.A. from Columbia

University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard

Business School.

Gerrit Sindermann is the Deputy Executive Director at the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA), where he leads the Every Action Counts (EAC) Coalition, a global network of leading digital finance and commerce players, with combined access to 3 billion customers, and convened to empower 1 billion people for green action. He has also led and participated in climate food consumption nexus and energy efficiency mortgage research projects.

In addition to his work at GDFA, Gerrit is Co-founder and President of the Swiss Green Fintech Network (GFN), a multi-stakeholder association fostering the green digital finance ecosystem. As a member of GFN, he co-authored the Green Fintech Action Plan for the Swiss finance ministry. He is also a member of the ESG Advisory Group of Icebreaker One and, as a content council member advises Money 20/20 Europe on ESG and green finance.

Earlier, Gerrit led the Swiss business of Tenity (formerly F10), a global incubator & accelerator network for the financial services industry, where he initiated a climate fintech-focused program and served as a board member at its investment arm. Gerrit worked as a banker for 10 years, mostly with ABN AMRO Bank, and before he became an entrepreneur in 2010, co-founded, led, and worked with – mostly FinTech – startups over 12 years, and led mobile payment projects at a telecommunications provider. Gerrit holds an MBA from IMD International in Lausanne and a BBA from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Jaakko Kooroshy is Head of Sustainable Investment Research at LSEG where he oversees a team of researchers and data scientists developing climate and sustainability-related data, scores and insights for investors. Previously, Jaakko was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, where he was the European research lead for GS SUSTAIN, providing insights in investment opportunities around the low carbon transition and other long-term trends. He has also been a Research Fellow for Energy, Environment, and Resources at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House and an analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS). He holds an MSc in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam, a BSc in International Economics, and a BA in Social Sciences and History from Maastricht University.

Jake joined Wespath in January 2020. As the managing director of Sustainable Investment Strategies for Wespath and its subsidiaries’ investment programs, Jake leads teams that focus on stewardship and engagement, ESG integration, and impact investing, including the Positive Social Purpose Lending Program. Jake previously served at Wespath as a manager, and then a director, for Sustainable Investment Stewardship. Before Wespath, Jake was an institutional consultant at Morgan Stanley’s Graystone Consulting. Jake currently co-leads the Engagement Track of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance and serves on the UN Principles for Responsible Investment Stewardship Advisory Committee. Jake is also a board member of the Catholic Impact Investing Collaborative and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. Jake received his bachelor’s degree in Economics, International Studies and Political Science from Ohio Wesleyan University and holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation

James d’Ath has a wide range of experience working across financial markets and sustainability. In 2015, he founded a sustainable finance advisory business. His current roles include Technical Lead for Data & Analytics at TNFD, Co-Chair of the Nature-related Data Catalyst, Finance Sector Engagement Specialist for Global Canopy, Senior Consultant for World Economic Forum and ESG Director for Edison Group.

Jamie has over eighteen years of experience in researching and engaging with companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. At NEI he oversees the implementation of the ESG program across the NEI portfolio to support NEI’s thesis that companies can mitigate risk and take advantage of emerging business opportunities by integrating best ESG practices into their strategies and operations. This includes a focus on conducting direct, collaborative dialogues with companies and policy makers on key ESG issues. He has also authored numerous submissions and reports on topics ranging from climate change policy and environmental oversight to the duty to respect human rights. Jamie is currently a member of the board at the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA).

Jamie Statter is the Senior Advisor for Climate in the Office of Comptroller Brad Lander. In this capacity, Jamie drives the implementation of the New York City Retirement Systems (NYCERS), the Teacher’s Retirement System (TRS), and the Board of Education Retirement System’s (BERS) net zero by 2040 commitments through engagement with portfolio companies and asset managers. Prior to joining the Comptroller’s office, Jamie was Vice President of Strategic Relationships at the US Green Building Council, leading the organization’s work on clean energy, power systems, and sustainable land development working with business and government leaders to assist their efforts to meet climate, sustainability, and resiliency goals. Previously, Jamie was the Head of the Built Environment at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). While serving in this role, she advised multinational corporations, philanthropists, NGOs, global mayors, and organized labor to increase investments in green buildings, infrastructure, resiliency and cities. Jamie is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans and completed her Masters of Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University.

Jes Andrews is the Head of Climate Accountability at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative. She is a member of several expert advisory groups such as Science Based Targets Initiative and UNFCCC’s Race to Zero Campaign, former director of thePRI-UNEPFI Investment Leadership Programme,and IA’s Investor Climate Action Plans working group. Prior to working with UNEP FI, she worked on climate change projects across with multiple UN agencies, governments and private firms across some 35 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. She’s the author of the 2021 G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group Paper: High Level Recommendations for Credible Net Zero Commitments and has several times been served as an invited reviewer of the UNEP Emission Gap Reports. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics and holds a Master of Finance from the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School.

Jessica is the Deputy Head of North America Infrastructure Debt and is responsible for originating, executing and managing infrastructure debt investments in North America.

Jessica previously worked at The Royal Bank of Scotland as Vice President in Power Project Finance, where she was responsible for executing structure project financing, capital raising and providing advice to clients in the power, utilities and renewable sector. Prior to this she held the role of Associate in Corporate Finance Advisory.

John Adler joined the Office of the Comptroller’s Bureau of Asset Management as the Chief ESG
Officer in January 2022. In this role, he is responsible for the Office of ESG that knits together
previously separated areas of work as well as engages in new initiatives concerning environmental,
social and governance impact on the companies in which the pension funds invest. The areas of
work include corporate governance; Economically Targeted Investments; Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion; climate change; workers’ rights; and integration of ESG throughout the investment
process.
Prior to BAM, Mr. Adler served as the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Pensions and Investments
and Chief Pension Investment Advisor under Mayor Bill de Blasio, where he was responsible for
advising the Mayor’s trustees on the five New York City retirement system boards and on the New
York City Deferred Compensation Plan Board on all relevant investment issues that impacted the
portfolios.
He previously spent 23 years in the labor movement, most recently as the Director of the
Retirement Security Campaign at SEIU, where he managed all aspects of SEIU’s retirement security
program, including public pension funds, Taft-Hartley pensions, Social Security, and private sector
plans. He ran state campaigns to create state-sponsored retirement plans for workers without
access to plans, and co-founded the Georgetown Center for Retirement Initiatives.
Mr. Adler received his B.A. from Yale University

John Delaney is an entrepreneur, business leader, and public servant.  He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Forbright Inc. and Executive Chairman of Forbright Bank.  In 2017 John was named one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine.

John served six years in the U.S. Congress and earned praise for his bi-partisan approach to economic, foreign, and climate policy. While in Congress he was on the Financial Services and Joint Economic Committees and co-founded the Artificial Intelligence and Climate Solutions Caucuses.  He was the co-president of his freshman class of 85 new members in the U.S. House of Representatives and in 2019 he stepped down from Congress to pursue the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

Before Congress and by the age of 40, John had founded and led two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies. In 1993, John founded HealthCare Financial Partners Inc., which provided loans to small to mid-sized healthcare service companies. In 2000, he founded CapitalSource Inc., which provided loans to a wide range of mid-sized businesses.  John served as Chairman and CEO of CapitalSource until his decision to pursue public office. All told, Delaney’s companies created thousands of jobs and made over $30 Billion of loans to over 5,000 companies.

John is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bipartisan Policy Center and Citizens Climate Education. He is a past member of the Board of Georgetown University, the Potomac School, and St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School. Delaney is a member of YPO, was named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, received the Bank Enterprise Award from the Obama Administration for lending to disadvantaged communities, and the Legislator of the Year Award by Citizens Climate Education,

John received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his law degree from Georgetown Law Center.  He and his wife April McClain Delaney have four daughters.

Julie Segal works as Senior Manager, Climate Finance at Environmental Defence, where she advances climate-related financial policy and regulation. She previously managed a portfolio of impact investments at the McConnell Foundation. Her career combines sustainable finance and climate advocacy. She’s won national and global awards for her work integrating environmental justice into sustainable finance, including winning First Prize Paper in the Ethics & Trust in Finance Global Prize. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute, sits on the investment advisory committee of The Michaëlle Jean Foundation, and is an Associate at Youth Climate Lab. Julie writes about climate finance in the media, volunteers with various community- and youth-led environmental groups and advises foundations on strategies for impact investing. Julie completed a Bachelor of Commerce at McGill 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.

Lori Kerr joined FinDev Canada as Chief Executive Officer in June 2021. A Canadian national, she is a widely experienced international development finance professional with more than two decades of leadership in private investment in emerging markets with a focus on sustainable infrastructure, climate finance, and blended finance.

Ms. Kerr joined FinDev Canada by way of the Global Infrastructure Facility at the World Bank in Washington, DC, where she was responsible for corporate strategy, thought leadership, partnerships, and international engagement for the largest global fund advising developing country governments on the preparation and structuring of commercially viable infrastructure projects.

Previously, Ms. Kerr served as Senior Director at Climate Finance Advisors developing low-carbon, climate-resilient investment strategies and blended finance solutions to mobilize private capital in developing countries. She also spent 18 years at the Inter-American Development Bank Group serving in management and senior investment roles where she spearheaded strategic initiatives to support the expansion and development impact of private sector activities as well as private sector transaction origination, structuring, and asset management. Ms. Kerr also spent 14 years as an Adjunct Professor of International Project Finance and Investment at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Kerr holds an Honours Bachelor degree from the University of Western Ontario and an International MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University.

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 Director of the SustainAbility Institute by ERM and an ERM Partner. His work helps companies make better progress on sustainable development. Mark has 25+ years’ experience in leadership positions in the sustainability field and is an expert in sustainability strategy and implementation. He is the co-author of All In: The Future of Business Leadership (2018) and The Sustainable Business Handbook (2022). Mark is the emeritus Chair of the Sustainable Brands Advisory Board and current member of the Sustainable Brands Corporate Board of Directors. Mark was previously the Executive Director of SustainAbility, Vice President at Business for Social Responsibility, and Manager, CSR at Vancity Savings. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, an alumnus of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and he completed the Berkeley Executive Program at the Center for Executive Leadership at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She leads the organization’s executive leadership team and more than 225 employees working to mobilize the most influential investors and companies to drive action on the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks and global collaborations have grown significantly in size and influence.

As a well-known global thought leader on climate change, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders including global coalitions of institutional investors and corporate boards and executives to factor environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices into their overall strategies. She is frequently quoted in top business and financial news outlets and pens a regular column for Forbes.com on a variety of topics that have elevated the economic and financial case for sustainability action and elevated concepts, such as climate and water risk, to the mainstream investment and business community. She regularly speaks to high-level world and national policymakers on the need for stronger climate policies and regulations to build a stronger, more resilient and sustainable economy. In 2015, Lubber helped catalyze the necessary business support to get the historic Paris Agreement across the finish line, leading Vogue Magazine to name her a “Climate Warrior.”

She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership. In 2020, Lubber was awarded the United Nations ’Champions of the Earth’ Entrepreneurial Vision award. In the same year, Lubber made Barron’s Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance, and then again in 2021, 2022, and 2023. She has also received the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network, William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership from American University, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation. She has been recognized by the United Nations and the Foundation for Social Change as one of the World’s Top Leaders of Change. In 2019, 2020, and 2021, Ceres was named a top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts by the Globe Magazine and Commonwealth Institute.

Prior to Ceres, Lubber served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Bill Clinton. She also founded Green Century Capital Management and served as the director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG).

Mona is Global Head of Sustainable Capital Markets at S&P Global Sustainable1, helping to elevate S&P’s sustainable product suite. Previously, she spearheaded the launch of the flagship S&P 500® ESG Index as Head of the North American ESG Index business for S&P Dow Jones Indices and supported institutional investors on climate goals as a Director at S&P Global Trucost. Prior to S&P, Mona held various ESG leadership roles, as Research Director of the 2° Investing Initiative, a Climate Policy Advisor to the Obama Administration, and as an Economist at the UK’s Bank of England.

Mona graduated Summa Cum Laude in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and has published extensively on sustainable finance topics. As a recognized ESG expert and educator, she has received numerous accolades, including the 2019 FiNext Excellence in Finance Leadership Award, the Women in Asset Management Awards’ 2021 Index Leader Award and 2021 Next Generation Leader of the Year Award. Mona currently also serves a Member of the Governance Council of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), which aims to elevate human health and wellbeing to the forefront of ESG frameworks and standards.

Mourad Wahba first joined the United Nations in 1993 as a senior advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General. In 1997 he moved to UNDP where he served as a policy advisor in the Human Development Report Office and later in the Office of the Administrator.

Mourad served as Deputy Resident Representative in Guyana, then from 2001 to 2006 as Director of UN Affairs in UNDP. In 2006, he was posted as Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative to Morocco, and returned to Headquarters in 2009 as Director for Security. In 2013 Mourad Wahba was Deputy Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States in UNDP.

In 2015, Mourad Wahba was appointed Assistant Secretary-General and DSRSG/RC/HC in Haiti, in MINUSTAH. He returned to UNDP in 2017, as ASG and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States. He was appointed Associate Administrator, acting, in 2019 with the rank of USG, and retired in 2021.

Upon retirement, Mourad Wahba was appointed by the Secretary-General as an independent expert on BINUH, and is currently a senior special advisor to the Administrator of UNDP. In this capacity, Mourad Wahba was asked to serve as Officer in Charge of UNCDF.

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.

Pietro joined the Carbon Trust in 2021 and heads up our green finance practice. He leads on relationships and engagements with the financial sector focussing on how financial institutions respond organisationally to climate change and can act as a catalyst through the extension of finance to fuel the acceleration towards Net Zero.

Pietro is a development economist with almost a decade of experience across the front lines of financial services and consulting. Previously with Standard Chartered PLC, Pietro was in the bank’s financial institutions group, working across the corporate finance, financial markets and transaction banking product portfolio and managing global client relationships. More recently, Pietro was a consultant for EA Consultants, a boutique development and strategy consultancy specialising on ESG in financial services. He has expertise in developing innovative green and sustainable financial product offerings, as well as impact assessment methodologies.

Pratima Divgi is the Head of Capital Markets, CDP North America. In her role, she leads engagement with the financial sector to measure and manage their climate and environmental impact, guiding them toward more sustainable practices.

Previously, Pratima was the Director for CDP’s regional offices in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Before that, she spent 17 years in finance, most recently in private equity with Aberdeen Standard Investments. Besides her investment role at Aberdeen Standard, she was also a part of the private equity ESG working group which developed the ESG policies and implementation mechanisms for their Asia-Pacific private equity investments.

As CSO, Richard is responsible for CPP Investments’ approach to sustainability-related matters at the enterprise level, and the development of its sustainability roadmap. He works closely with our CEO and CIO to ensure the Fund maintains a global, cross-enterprise approach to sustainability and deliver on its commitment to reach net zero across the Fund and its operations by 2050.

As Head of Sustainable Investing, Richard leads the team responsible for integrating consideration of sustainability-related risks and opportunities across our investment programs.  Richard is also chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) Investor Advisory Group, a member of the TCFD and the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2019, Richard spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was most recently Global Head of Thematic Equity and ESG Research, and Co-Head of EMEA Equity Research. Previously, he worked at Merrill Lynch, Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, and Paribas Capital Markets as an Integrated Oil & Gas equity analyst.

Richard holds a Graduado Superior/BA (Hons) in European Business Administration from ICADE in Madrid.

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.

Romie Goedicke Co-Heads the nature thematic at the UNEP Finance Initiative. She also leads the work on nature-related risk and disclosure, and manages the work on mainstreaming and capacity building. In this ways she supports the work on alignment of financial flows with the goals of the GBF. Romie joined UNEP FI in 2021, prior to joining she led the work of financial sector and business engagement at IUCN Netherlands. Romie is an experienced senior program manager, with a demonstrated history in managing programs on nature and finance in Europe, Asia and Africa. She is passionate about nature and committed to the role that innovation and collaboration can play in creating shared solutions for nature and finance.

Sagarika leads on private finance for the UN Climate Change High-level Champions, Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin and Her Excellency Ms Razan Al Mubarak. The two Champions’ roles were created by parties to the Paris Agreement.  The Champions’ mandate is to catalyse non-state actor action and be a bridge to parties.  The Champions today operate globally and convene over 11,000 non-state actors including over 8,000 corporates, 1,000 cities, and 550 financial institutions.

The Champions finance team focuses on net zero implementation, nature, adaptation and resilience, and developing country finance.  The Champions collaborate with net zero alliances across banks, investors and insurers that are Race to Zero Partners, and with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) co-chaired by Mark Carney.

Prior to the Champions, Sagarika was the PRI’s Director of Climate Change and Environment.  At PRI, Sagarika co-headed the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance secretariat chaired by Allianz SE.  Sagarika also led the PRI’s work with global investors on TCFD, The Inevitable Policy Response and early work in China.  Sagarika has undertaken secondments with Aviva Investors and with the UN COP26 Champion Nigel Topping, helping establish several finance sector net zero alliances.

Before PRI, Sagarika worked for over ten years at F&C Asset Management, served as an investment committee member for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and as a trustee at Earthwatch, an environmental research organisation.  Sagarika has also worked in a commercial role sourcing independently certified timber for B&Q, part of European retailer Kingfisher plc.

Sagarika presently serves on the advisory board of the Imperial College Business School Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, on the Adaptation Expert Group of the Principles for Responsible Banking, and on the Africa chapter of the Green Investment Principles.

Sagarika has an MSc in Development Studies from University of London, a post-graduate diploma in Management Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge.  Sagarika is bilingual in English and Bengali.

Sarah Kemmitt leads the Secretariat for the Net Zero Banking Alliance. With a background in ecological conservation, agroforestry and soil science, after the financial crisis Sarah took the opportunity move into financial services regulation, from there moving to roles within the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Bank of England. In recent years she brought her environmental expertise to bear on her supervisory work at the Bank, contributing to the UK regulation and supervision of the risks from climate change on the banking and insurance sectors.

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.

Scott Kalb is the Founder and Director of the Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative at New America, dedicated to mobilizing capital toward responsible investing and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The RAAI publishes the “Leader’s List: The 25 Most Responsible Asset Allocators” in the world.

Kalb is the founder and CEO of KLTI Advisors, a firm dedicated to working with the sovereign and government fund community on long-term investment solutions. In addition, Kalb serves as the Chairman of the Sovereign Investor Institute, a membership organization of Institutional Investor and leading forum for sovereign and government funds around the world.

Kalb served as the CIO and Deputy CEO of the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), Korea’s US$130 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund, during 2009-2012, and is one of the few foreigners appointed to manage another country’s SWF portfolio. During his time at KIC, assets under management grew from US$19 billion to US$60 billion.

Prior to KIC, Kalb worked in the financial industry for more than twenty-five years. Most recently, he was a senior portfolio manager at Balyasny Asset Management (2006-2008), CEO and senior portfolio manager at Black Arrow Capital Management (2002-2006), and senior equity portfolio manager at Tudor Investment Corp (1999-2002). Prior to this, Mr Kalb, worked at Citigroup for ten years (1990 – 1999), serving as managing director of International Asset Management (1995-1999) and of International Equity Research (1990-1995).

Since 2009, Kalb has been a member of the WE Forum Council on the Future of Long-term Investing, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Private Capital Research Institute, a Harvard based initiative. He has published numerous articles regarding long-term investing and the sovereign fund community.

Kalb lived in Asia for over fifteen years, speaks Korean and has an MA Degree from Harvard and a BA degree from Oberlin College.

Sonia Khanna is Managing Director in the Sustainable Finance division of
Forbright Bank. Forbright Bank is a full-service bank, commercial lender, and
asset manager headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD, that is committed to
accelerating the transition to a sustainable, clean energy economy by financing the
companies, investors, and innovators driving that change. Forbright Bank provides
a broad range of senior secured financing products to investors, companies and
entrepreneurs helping to drive decarbonization and sustainability.
Prior to Forbright Bank, Ms. Khanna spent 15 years developing relationships with
investors, operators, and intermediaries in primary and secondary markets
throughout the country as a senior member of the Commercial Real Estate Group at
Pacific Western Bank, where she served as Senior Director and ran the Washington,
DC Commercial Real Estate originations team. Prior to that, Ms. Khanna worked at
CapitalSource Inc. and UBS Investment Bank.
Ms. Khanna holds a BA in Mathematics from Barnard College and an MBA in
Finance from The Kellogg School of Management. Ms. Khanna is an active
member of ULI’s Sustainability Council, CREFC, and is a guest lecturer at the
NYU Stern School of Business.

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 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 Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and chairs the Steering Committee for the Investor Agenda and Executive Committee for the Paris Aligned Investment Initiative.

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. Stephanie received an OBE for her services to climate finance in the late Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours List in 2022.

Steven M. Rothstein is the founding Managing Director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets.  Ceres Accelerator aims to transform the practices and policies that govern capital markets in order to accelerate reduction of the worst financial impacts of the climate crisis and other sustainability threats. Steven’s 40 years of experience will be critical to explore the most effective strategies for the Accelerator to focus on and move capital markets towards climate sustainability.

Steven has had a successful career starting, managing and growing several non-profit, social change and government organizations. After college he was one of the founding team of Citizens Energy Corporation, the world’s only non-profit oil company. This enterprise, and its related organizations, grew to provide tens of millions of service for low income and needy individuals through oil, natural gas, electricity, energy conservation, pharmaceuticals and renewable energy. After several years, Steven went on to manage a Massachusetts $300 million human service state agency’s programs and facilities for people with intellectual disabilities. He then started and ran Environmental Futures, a management and market consulting company serving a wide range of enterprises in the US and internationally seeking to grow their environmental work. He also ran the New England market for Constellation’s entry and expansion into this market as a successful electricity broker. His career also includes running the world renowned, Perkins School for the Blind, as well as Citizen Schools and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

He has worked at local, state, federal and international levels of government. Steven served on many non-profit and government boards. He has spoken and written extensively and worked with partners in the corporate, non-profit, government and philanthropy sectors.

Steven has a BA with Honors in Political Science from Williams College and an MBA from Northeastern University’s D’Amore – McKim School of Management. He also studied at Duke University’s, Institute of Public Policy. He and his wife, Susan, live in Somerville. They have two grown sons. He is currently on the Brady Campaign for Gun Safety Board and the Mass Civic Learning Coalition’s Steering Committee.

Tracey McDermott is Group Head, Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance at Standard Chartered PLC. Standard Chartered is a UK headquartered, emerging markets focussed bank, with a presence in 59 markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Prior to joining the Bank, Tracey served as Acting Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), having joined in 2001 and fulfilled numerous senior roles, including Board Member, member of the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England, and Non-Executive Director of the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA). Previously, Tracey worked as a lawyer in private practice in the UK, US and Belgium. In 2016, Tracey received a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to financial service consumers and markets.

Tracey is Chair of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA); a member of the International Regulatory Strategy Group (IRSG) Council; and a member of the Management Board of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). She also chairs the Conduct and Ethics Committee of the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) Markets Standards Board (FMSB), is on the advisory committee of 25 x 25 and the steering committee of the 30% Club.