Investing in the net zero transition

Speakers

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  Abbie Llewellyn-Waters
  Lead Investment Manager, Jupiter Asset Management

  Since joining Jupiter in 2006, Abbie has dedicated her investment career to sustainable investing, with her team building and designing a rigorous investment framework that embeds all stakeholders into fundamental stock analysis.  
  
  Multi-award winning, Abbie has received recognition for her investment performance, her approach to ESG integration and her contribution to address the structural hurdles that women in investment face. She also collaborates on several industry initiatives including as an author for the CFA Institute’s Certificate in Climate and Investing (CFA CCI). She is an Ambassador for the Diversity Project and is a member of the 30% Club Investor Group. She has a degree in Classics. 

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  Adam Forsyth 
  Head of Research, Longspur Capital

  Adam Forsyth is Head of Research at Longspur Capital, a research-led capital markets advisory, development, investment and asset management business exclusively focused on clean energy. Adam has over thirty years’ experience in investment research focusing on electricity, new energy and clean technology companies operating in the UK and internationally. He has been ranked number one in the StarMine and Extel Industry Awards, is a member of the CFA UK Energy Finance Special Interest Group leadership team and formerly Chair of the CFA Climate Change Disclosure Working Group. Adam and his team currently provide investment research on 14 clean energy companies and recent research includes thematic pieces on the decarbonisation of shipping, energy storage and energy from waste and biomass. 

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  Adam Matthews
  Chief Responsible Investment Officer (CRIO), Church of England Pensions Board

  Adam is the Chief Responsible Investment Officer (CRIO) at the Church of England Pensions Board; Together with the CIO he is the co-Director of the Investment Team. He is also the Chair of the $50 trillion in AUM backed Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) and a Board Member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, (IIGCC).He co-leads sector engagement with the mining and steel sectors for the global investor engagement initiative, Climate Action 100+. He Chairs the Mining 2030 which is developing an Investor Agenda to address systemic challenges to mining and the low carbon transition.  
  
   

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  Anoushka Babbar, CFA
  Head of Sustainable Investment Index Policy, FTSE Russel

  Anoushka is responsible for Sustainable Investment Index Policy at FTSE Russell. She helps ensure a robust, rule based and transparent index governance framework and gathers market feedback so indices evolve in line with best practice.  
  
  She is a member of the Policy Committee at the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UK SIF), EuroSIF and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). She is a member of the LSEG Charity Foundation EMEA Committee. 
  
  Anoushka joined London Stock Exchange Group in 2016 as Head of Regulatory Policy and has worked at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Bank of England and UK Treasury. At the FCA, she set up the Benchmarks team, was Private Secretary to the Chairman, and supervised asset managers. At the UK Treasury, Anoushka advised the UK Financial Secretary to the Treasury. 
  Anoushka is a CFA charterholder and Trustee of the Brent Centre for Young People. 

   
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  Benjamin Yeoh, CFA
  Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Equities at RBC Bluebay

  Ben is a Senior Portfolio Manager of Global Equities at RBC Bluebay.  Ben sits as Chair of the Responsible Investment Advisory committee, for Royal London Asset Management. He is a co-author on the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing (originally developed by CFA UK) and introduction to Climate Finance.
  
  Previously, Ben sat on the UK’s Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Investor Advisory Group, and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) management commentary advisory committee.
  
  In 2003, Ben was recognised with the top 1 Thomson Extel rating across all sectors for integrated SRI/ESG (Socially Responsible Investing / Environment Social Governance) research. 
  
  Ben studied at Cambridge University before gaining a scholarship to Harvard University. Ben hosts a top 10% personal podcast at Ben Yeoh Chats and a personal newsletter covering sustainability and creativity topics. He is a prize winning playwright, trustee at Improbable (theatre), trustee at London Mathematical Labs and an associate fellow at Chatham House

   
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  Billy Suid, CFA
  Head of Climate Risk, Barclays

  Billy is Head of Climate Risk for Barclays, a function created in 2020 to support Barclays’ ambition to become a net zero bank by 2050, helping to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. He chairs the Transition to Net Zero working of the Climate Financial Risk Forum. Billy is responsible for developing Barclays’ climate risk methodologies and managing climate risk in the bank’s portfolio. He also leads Barclays’ climate stress testing work. 
  
  He has led the development of BlueTrack™, Barclays’ methodology for measuring financed carbon emissions and tracking them at a portfolio level against the goals of the Paris Agreement and the development of Barclays’ methodology to assess the risk of the low carbon transition on its corporate lending portfolio. He also sits on the investment committee of Barclays’ £500m Sustainable Impact Capital, which invests in environmentally-focused early-stage companies. 

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  Casey Dwyer
  Head of Research , Andurand Capital 

  Casey is a Partner with Andurand Capital in London, where he is Head of Research and co-manages the Andurand Climate and Energy Transition Fund, a thematic Macro fund focused on the energy transition. He has worked at Andurand Capital since 2016 as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager. 
  
  Casey has a successful history of managing risk in energy and carbon derivatives and publicly traded equities. In addition to his public markets role, Casey advises and invests in private investment opportunities tied to the energy transition.   
  
  Previous to Andurand Capital, Casey was a Private Equity Associate at J.P. Morgan in New York and an Associate with J.P. Morgan Investment Bank in Sao Paulo. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania (Lauder Institute), and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University. 

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  Christopher Kaminker
  Deputy Head of Sustainable Investing, Blackrock

  Christopher Kaminker is Deputy Head of Sustainable Investing at Blackrock. He joined from Lombard Odier, where he was group head of sustainable investment research, strategy and stewardship, and developed a reputation as a globally recongised expert on sustainable investing who built one of the industry’s leading active sustainable portfolio ranges. 
  
  In his role at Blackrock, Christopher looks at product innovation globally in areas such as energy transition, biodiversity and climate resilience. He partners with the BlackRock Investment Institute and the firm’s investment platforms, as Blackrock looks to root the firm’s sustainable investing strategies in robust research and cutting-edge analytics. 

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  Clara Barby, CBE
  Senior Partner, Just Climate

  Clara Barby, CBE is Senior Partner at Just Climate. Previously, Clara was Chief Executive of the Impact Management Project (IMP) and led the IFRS Foundation's project to establish the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), under the direction of the IFRS Foundation’s Trustees. Clara’s public interest work with the IMP was made possible through a secondment from her role as a Partner at Bridges Fund Management, where she led the firm’s sustainable and impact strategies across fund types. Prior to Bridges Fund Management, Clara worked for Acumen’s Capital Markets team and later co-led the Acumen renewable energy portfolio, investing in India and East Africa. 
  
  Clara received a BA (Hons) in Greats from Oxford University, and an MBA from INSEAD. She was awarded a CBE for services to International Sustainability Standards in the 2023 King’s New Year Honours list. 

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  Fabrizio Palmucci
  Senior Advisor, Climate Bonds Initiative 

  Fabrizio is a Senior Advisor at the Climate Bonds Initiative where he is focused on engaging with corporates, banks and investors on green bonds and other transition instruments as catalysts to accelerate investments into the net-zero transition. 
  
  Besides his work at Climate Bonds Initiative, Fabrizio regularly tutors for Cambridge CISL and is a climate finance instructor at Moody’s Analytics. He has spent close to 20 years in the fixed-income buy-side space in different roles, trading, credit analysis and strategy and with several firms from boutique to tier one assets managers and rating agencies. 

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  Faith Ward
  Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Brunel Pension Partnership

  Faith’s career has been dedicated to integrating and reporting on environmental, social and governance risks in finance and investment. Faith leads engagement with the fund management industry and is involved in industry-wide initiatives to improve standards in responsible investment, corporate engagement, and fund governance and reporting. 
  
  Faith’s current roles include chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change; member of the Ethics Investment Advisory Group for the C of E National Investing Bodies; vice-chair of the Investment Innovation Benchmark Assessment Committee, SASB’s Investor Advisory Group; co-chair of the SASB European and UK Working Group; and member of the Financial Reporting Council Investment Advisory Group. Faith is a  Transition Pathway Initiative founder and its former co-chair. She was also chair of the Reporting & Assessment Advisory Committee for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). 

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  Fraser Lundie, CFA 
  Head of Fixed Income, Public Markets Credit

  Fraser joined in February 2010 and is Head of Fixed Income – Public Markets and lead manager on the range of credit strategies. Based in London, he is responsible for leading the strategic development of the Credit platform and investment teams, offering solutions accessing all areas of the global credit markets. Prior to this, he was at Fortis Investments, where he was responsible for European High Yield. Fraser graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an MA (Hons) in Economics; he earned an MSc in Investment Analysis from the University of Stirling and is a CFA charterholder. In 2017, Fraser joined the board of CFA UK, a member society of the CFA Institute, where he also sits on their Sustainability Steering Committee, as well as the Professionalism Steering Committee overseeing the society’s advocacy and thought leadership work. He has previously featured in the Financial News’ ‘40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Asset Management’, an editorial selection of the brightest up-and-coming men and women in the industry, and was also named as one of the top 10 star fund managers of tomorrow by the Daily Telegraph. Other notable accolades have come from Citywire Americas, which named Fraser number one in their global high yield manager review, and Investment Europe and Investment Week, which both named the Federated Hermes Multi-Strategy Credit Fund top global bond fund at their respective 2017 Fund Manager of the Year Awards.

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  Giulia Pellegrini
  Senior Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Debt, AllianzGI

  Giulia Pellegrini is a Senior Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Debt at AllianzGI, where she focuses on EM sovereign debt strategies and sustainable investing. She is also an adviser to the London Stock Exchange as part of its Sustainable Bond Market Advisory Group and Board Member at the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance. Prior to joining AllianzGI in 2020, she was Head of Sustainable EM Debt Investing at BlackRock since 2015. Ms Pellegrini was previously Chief Economist for Sub-Saharan Africa in J.P. Morgan’s Emerging Market Research team in London and in Johannesburg and an Economist at the World Bank in the Africa Finance and Private Sector Development Department in Washington D.C. She started her career as an Economist at the Debt Management Office of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Abuja. Giulia holds master degrees in Development Economics and in Econometrics from the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College and from Birkbeck College as well as a BSc in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London. She is also a Trustee on the board of the Peaceful Change Initiative, an NGO focused on conflict resolution and long-term peacebuilding in some of the world’s most challenging conflict areas.

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  Graham C. Cook, CFA.
  Sustainable Investment Strategy Lead (Public Markets) at Phoenix Group

  Graham is responsible for leading Sustainable Investment Strategy at Phoenix Group, essentially developing investment portfolios that will deliver on the long term sustainability ambitions and commitments of Phoenix Group, ensuring our clients investments are protected from the risks of climate change, whilst embracing the opportunities that the transition to a post carbon economy present.
  
  Graham joined Phoenix Group from the Environment Agency Pension Fund (EAPF), a recognised global leader in sustainable investment, where he was Chief Investment Officer.
  
  Prior to joining EAPF, Graham spent 25 years helping asset owners in the UK, Europe and Australia efficiently implement their investment strategy. 
  
  Graham is a CFA charterholder, and remains actively involved with CFA UK, where he served as a board member for 6 years, including 3 as Vice-Chairman, and is particularly involved in Education and Sustainability activities, including a leading role in the development and launch of the CFA Certificate in ESG Investment. He currently serves as vice chair of the sustainability committee.
  
  Graham is also a board member of IIGCC, the preeminent collaboration body for European investors on climate change.
  Graham has qualified as chartered Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He was also one of the first to be awarded the CFA ESG Investment certificate.
  
  Graham graduated from Coventry University with a B.A. (hons) in Financial Economics and from Durham with MSc in Corporate and International Finance.

   
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  Graham Stock
  Managing Director, RBC BlueBay Asset Management

  Graham joined BlueBay in September 2013 to manage the emerging markets sovereign research team, with particular responsibility for Latin America. He became a Partner in 2018 and Managing Director in 2023. Before joining BlueBay, Graham was Chief Strategist at Insparo Asset Management. Prior to that, he worked for 12 years in emerging markets research at JPMorgan in New York and London, heading up Latin America sovereign strategy, CEEMEA FX strategy and Sub-Saharan Africa research. In the early stages of his career, Graham taught English in Colombia, worked as an economist for the government of Papua New Guinea, was a management consultant in London, and was Senior Latin America economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Since July 2020, he has been co-chair of the Investor Policy Dialogue on Deforestation in Brazil, leading engagement with the authorities. Graham has a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Sheffield, and an MA (Econ) degree in Development Economics from the University of Manchester.

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  Holly Turner
  Climate Specialist, Schroders Capital

  Holly Turner’s entire career has focused on the integration of climate change within the investment industry. Holly is currently the Climate Specialist at Schroders Capital, the private markets division of Schroders. Holly joined Schroders in 2019 as part of the central Sustainable Investment Team focusing on climate change research, implementation and thematic products.   
  
  Prior to joining Schroders, Holly completed a Masters in Climate Change, Management and Finance at Imperial Business School and undertook her Masters work placement at CDP (previously known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) within their investor relations team, assisting investor members integrate climate-related data into their investment analysis.  

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  Ian Simm
  Founder and Chief Executive, Impax Asset Management Group plc

  Ian Simm is the Founder and Chief Executive of Impax Asset Management Group plc, an investment manager dedicated to investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy. Impax, which Ian founded in 1998, currently manages ca. £40 billion in listed equity, private equity and fixed income strategies, primarily for institutional owners. Prior to Impax, Ian was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company advising clients on environmental strategy.   
  
  Outside Impax, Ian is a member of the Net Zero Innovation Board which provides strategic oversight of public sector funding of energy innovation programmes. He is also a board member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the European membership body for investor collaboration on addressing climate change and Chairman of the Decarbonisation Council of the Confederation of British Industry, and a Commissioner with the Energy Transitions Commission. Between 2013 and 2018 he was a board member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the UK’s leading funding agency for environmental science. 
  
   Ian has a first-class honours degree in physics from Cambridge University and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University.   

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  Ingrid Holmes 
  Executive Director, Green Finance Institute 

  Ingrid Holmes is the Executive Director of the Green Finance Institute and Chair of the UK’s Green Technical Advisory Group, which is advising the Government and Minister John Glenn on designing and implementing a green taxonomy in the UK. 
  
  Ingrid has 20 years of experience working on environmental policy and sustainable finance.  She was a Member of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and ran the Secretariat for the Green Finance Taskforce, which led to the establishment of the Green Finance Institute.  Ingrid has a background working in financial services (Federated Hermes and Climate Change Capital), NGOs (E3G), Government (DEFRA) and the UK Parliament. Her abiding passion is her focus on scaling investment into climate change solutions to address the climate crisis. Ingrid has a BSc in Biological Sciences (Hons Zoology) from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. 

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  John Teahan, CFA
  Portfolio Manager and Partner, Redwheel

  John joined Redwheel in 2010 as Portfolio Manager and Partner within the Redwheel UK Value & Income team. He was attracted to Redwheel for the opportunity to learn from great value investors and for the independence of Redwheel’s business model. His ambition for the role includes contributing to sustainability by mitigating climate warming and reducing inequality. Prior to joining Redwheel, John worked as a Fund Manager at Schroders and served as a Performance & Risk analyst at the Bank of Ireland Asset Management. 
  
  Outside of work, John enjoys travel – he took a 15-month sabbatical from work to join a small media company travelling emerging and frontier markets; including Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda. He relaxes by going for morning walks along the Thames and John lists ‘Educated’ by Tara Westover as one of his best recent reads. 

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  Kingsmill Bond, CFA
  Energy Strategist, RMI

  Kingsmill has worked as a financial market analyst and strategist for over 25 years, including for Deutsche Bank, Sberbank and Citibank in London, Hong Kong and Moscow. He believes that the renewable revolution is the most important driver of financial markets and geopolitics in the modern era. He joined RMI in 2022 to write analysis on the impact of the energy transition on financial markets, with a focus on peaking fossil fuel demand and its implications.

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  Maria Lombardo
  Head of ESG Advisory Sustainable Finance, Standard Chartered Bank

  Maria spent more than 25 years in investment banking as Managing Director, heading emerging market equities sales at Lazard, UBS, Sberbank and Unicredit. She moved into sustainability in 2016 when she joined the non-profit CDP as head of their financial investor members. She then headed the ESG Client strategies and climate change strategies at Invesco Global Asset Management in EMEA, leading the growth of sustainability investment solutions and the set-up of the global asset manager’s climate strategy.
  
  Authors of ESG thought leadership whitepapers, mentor, and contributor to industry initiatives in sustainable financing. Maria holds a CFA ESG, a diploma at Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership Institute, along with a CEMS Master and a bachelor’s degree in financial intermediaries at Bocconi University. Maria is a member of the CFA UK Climate and Investing committee, she is a mentor of the acceleration program at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. Maria is an independent advisor of the ESG Group A-team advisory group and a faculty member of Risk.net learning.

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  Mark Manning 
  Strategic Policy Advisor on Sustainable Finance, FCA

  In this role, he is responsible for several initiatives at the core of the FCA’s ESG Strategy. These include work on climate and sustainability reporting and assurance, transition planning and sustainable investment labelling and disclosure. Mark is a leading member of IOSCO’s Sustainable Finance Taskforce, as well as the UK Transition Plan Taskforce Delivery Group, and the ISSB’s Jurisdictional Working Group. Prior to joining the FCA in 2018, Mark spent fifteen years as a central banker with the Bank of England (BoE) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). He also spent several years as a fixed income and currency fund manager with Kleinwort Benson Investment Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Mark holds Master’s degrees in Economics and Finance, from University College London and London Business School, respectively. 
  
   

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  Michael Marshall
  Head of Investment Risk and Sustainable Ownership, Railpen

  Michael Marshall is Head of Investment Risk and Sustainable Ownership at Railpen. A member of Railpen’s Fiduciary Leadership Team, Michael’s Sustainable Ownership role involves accountability for the integration of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors into fiduciary and investment decision-making, while his Investment Risk role involves leading a team responsible for managing investment risk across capital markets, private markets including ODD, valuations, investment analytics and investment governance. Railpen is the investment manager and fiduciary adviser for the c£35bn UK railways pension schemes; our purpose is to secure our members’ futures.

  Prior to joining Railpen Michael held a variety of senior roles in pensions, asset management and ESG advisory. He is a member of advisory groups at the British Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (BVCA), the Occupational Pensions Stewardship Council (OPSC), the Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF), the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), the Paris Aligned Investing Initiative (PAII), and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). He studied economics at Bristol University. 

   

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  Monica Filkova, CFA 
  Head of Climate and Nature Investment Risk, Chief Investment Office, Aviva

  Monica Filkova, CFA is Head of Climate and Nature Investment Risk, Chief Investment Office, Aviva. Since 2020, she has chaired the Climate and Investing Panel responsible for the Certificate in Climate and Investing launched by CFA UK in 2022. She has been a member of the ESG Panel, responsible for the Certificate in ESG Investing, since 2019, and an advisor to the CFA UK Impact and Investing Certificate Panel since 2021.  
  
  Over 2022, she was also technical lead on a disclosure standards and metrics landscape assessment for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). 
  
  Her previous roles include Head of Market Intelligence at climate finance NGO Climate Bonds Initiative (2017-2020), and Director, Sustainable Finance at Fitch Ratings (2020). Prior to pivoting to sustainable finance, she was in property finance and debt capital markets, including Head of Structuring, Debt Capital Markets at Eurohypo as well as roles in CMBS restructuring (Brookland Partners), bank property debt exposure and policy assessments (Alvarez & Marsal) and distressed debt credit research (Chalkhill Partners), among other mandates. 
  
  Monica is a CFA charterholder. She holds the GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate. She earned a Master of Management degree from Cornell University, USA, and a BBA from the American University in Bulgaria. 

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  Nina Reid
  Head of Sustainability, Private and Alternative Assets; Co-Head Climate - M&G Investments 

  Nina is Head of Sustainability, Private and Alternative Assets at M&G Investments. She is responsible for integrating ESG across the spectrum of private assets covering private credit, alternatives, real estate equity and debt, infrastructure and ABS. She works across private assets to scale up our sustainability and impact offerings, as well ensuring delivery of commercially viable and regulatory-compliant investment propositions across our wide spectrum of products. Alongside this, she Co-Heads the climate team, which is responsible for net zero, TCFD reporting and decarbonization across M&G. Prior to this, she was Global Head of Sustainability for M&G Real Estate.  
  
  Nina joined M&G in 2011. Prior to this she was Associate Director in the sustainability consulting team at JLL. Nina began her career as a researcher in the environmental economics department at the University of East Anglia. She has a Natural Sciences degree from the University of Cambridge.  
  
   
  
   
  
   

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  Robert Hall
  Director, Earth Systems Impact Investment, Federated Hermes

  Robert is responsible for the interdisciplinary measurement and evaluation of ecological and social-economic systems across public and private markets. Prior to joining Federated Hermes, he was the Subject Matter Expert in ESG, Impact and Sustainability in the FCA’s Asset Management Department and on Environmental Financial Technology for the FCA’s Innovation Sandbox. Robert has worked as a technical expert across a number of national, international, central banking, and governmental working groups on sustainable investment, TCFD, and systemic risk. 
  
  Robert is the chair of the UK chapter of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials, the members of which represent more than £4.5 trillion in assets and is observed by the Bank of England, BEIS, and Mark Carney in his capacity as Special Advisor on COP26. Robert is on numerous expert industry working groups, a non-executive member of the Carbon Laces Advisory Board and is a member of the expert panel and author for the CFA on ESG and Climate-Energy-Economy Modelling. 

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  Sam Tripuraneni
  Head of Sustainable Outcomes, Aviva Investors

  Sam is responsible for overseeing ESG thematic research and how this is integrated across liquid market asset classes and plays a key role in the development of new sustainability and impact strategies. Based in London, he reports to Mirza Baig, Global Head of ESG Investments, and manages a team of eight sustainability specialists. 
  
  Sam came to Aviva Investors after seven years at BlackRock, most recently as a director in its sustainable investing team, where he worked closely with investment and client business teams to develop investment solutions to meet environmental, social and financial objectives. Prior to that, he was a relationship manager in the UK defined contribution sales team. Before joining the financial services industry, Sam served as a captain in the British Army. He holds a BA in Ancient History from the University of Nottingham and studied History of International Relations at the London School of Economics. 

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  Stephanie Maier 
  Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment, GAM Investments

  Stephanie Maier, Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment, is responsible for leading GAM’s sustainable and ESG (environmental, social and governance) strategy. Stephanie joined GAM Investments in January 2021 from HSBC Global Asset Management, where she was Director for Responsible Investment. Prior to that, she spent seven years at Aviva Investors, latterly as Head of Responsible Investment Strategy and Research, and was formerly Head of Research for EIRIS, an ESG research and consultancy firm. Stephanie holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, a BA in Biological Sciences from Oxford University and the Investment Management Certificate (IMC). She is on the Global Steering Committee of the ClimateAction100+ initiative, Co-Chair of the IIGCC Corporate Programme and sits on the Board of the Aldersgate Group, a cross-sector alliance for an environmentally sustainable economy. She is based in London. 

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  Sylvia Solomon, ASIP,
  Director of ESG and Business Development, Equitile Investments Ltd

  Sylvia Solomon, ASIP, has over 30 years of investment industry experience on the buy-side, in equities and sustainable investing. She spent 25 years managing a wide range of funds, including pensions, life funds, endowments, unit trusts and hedge funds at firms such as Baring Asset Management, Hermes Investment Management, Ennismore Fund Management and Equitile Investments. Sylvia has also enjoyed C-Suite roles at Alternative Investments boutiques and been responsible for the design and implementation of ESG integrated investment processes in a wide range of asset classes including Private Markets and Trade Finance.  
   
  Sylvia is recipient of the 2022 CFA Inspirational Leader Award for Education. She serves as a CFA UK Board Director, Chairs the Society’s Examinations and Education Committee, and is a member of the Sustainability Committee. As Chair of the CFA UK Certificate in ESG Investing Panel, Sylvia was instrumental in leading practitioners in the design, development and launch of the Certificate in ESG Investing. This qualification is now under the auspices of the CFA Institute’s ESG Advisory Panel, of which Sylvia is a member. Sylvia was also a member of the CFA UK Certificate in Climate and Investing Panel responsible for developing the first professional qualification of its kind in the UK, which delivers the knowledge and skills required by investment professionals to understand climate as it relates to investing, and how to integrate climate change considerations into the investment process.  
  
  Sylvia has served as a member of the PRI Global Policy Reference Group and is a member of the Alternative Investment Management Association’s Global Responsible Investment Committee.  

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  Tim Rowe
  
  Manager, Sustainable Finance, Financial Conduct Authority

  Tim Rowe joined the FCA’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Division at its creation in 2021. Since then, Tim has worked on the implementation across the FCA of the ESG Strategy published in November 2021, publication of the FCA’s first climate-related financial disclosure (in July 2022) and its Climate Change Adaptation Report (October 2021). Tim is also leading the FCA’s work to publish this year its first net zero transition plan.
  
  Tim has collaborated on ESG issues with colleagues across the FCA’s functions, from Operations, Procurement and Corporate Governance to Authorisations, Supervision, Enforcement and Innovation. Prior to this, Tim undertook a range of management roles in Policy, taking in the FCA’s response to the Covid-19 crisis (focusing on mortgages and consumer credit), its preparations for Brexit and in Markets Policy (primarily on the negotiations around MiFID 2). Tim is an experienced international negotiator, having led working groups and task forces at both ESMA and IOSCO. Prior to his 13 years at the FCA, Tim worked in a number of roles for the London Stock Exchange Group. 

   
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  Valeria Piani
  Head of Stewardship, Phoenix Group

  Valeria has over 14 years’ experience in the industry, with a deep understanding of global stewardship and responsible investment practices, as well as strong record of accomplishment in leading engagement with companies. Joining UBS Asset Management in 2017 as Strategic Engagement Lead of its Sustainable and Impact Investing Team, Valeria led the company’s Climate Change Engagement Program with 50 oil & gas and utilities companies.  
  
  Prior to this, Valeria was Associate Director at the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), where she worked for 9 years co-ordinating investor collaborative engagement activities with investee companies on a wide range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. During her time at the PRI, she oversaw 30 global initiatives with over 200 investors across an array of topics including director nomination, gender diversity, carbon emissions and human rights. 

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  Vishal Hindocha, CFA
  Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainability Strategy

  Vishal Hindocha, CFA, is senior managing director and global head of sustainability strategy for MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). In this role, he works with clients and regulators globally to develop solutions and provide insights on sustainable investment trends and best practices. He is focused on ensuring that sustainability is integrated across investment, client and corporate pillars.
  
  Vishal joined MFS in 2016 as a director on the Client Relations and Consultant Relations teams and assumed his current role in 2021. He previously served as a senior investment consultant and team leader at Willis Towers Watson for more than nine years. Vishal earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from University College London. He is a CFA charterholder and also holds CFA Society UK’s Certificate in ESG Investing and is a member of the Enterprise Advisor Network. He also holds the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s Certificate in Sustainable Business.