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UNEP FI Global Roundtable 2024 – Speakers

 

Careen Abb
SDGs and Impact Lead

Angélica Afanador
Director, Guidehouse and Executive Director, Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)

Abimbola Agbejule
Head, Corporate Sustainability, Wema Bank

Amal-Lee Amin
Managing Director and Head of Climate, Diversity and Advisory, British International Investment

Inger Andersen
Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

Jesica Lelynn Andrews
Head of Climate Accountability and Climate Co-Lead

Butch Bacani
Head of Insurance, UNEP and Chair of the Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero

Ana Bachurova
Energy Efficiency Lead

Dawn Bailey
Head of Financial Wellbeing, Bank of Ireland

Antoni Ballabriga
Global Head of Sustainability Intelligence & Advocacy, BBVA

Susan Barron
Managing Director and Global Co-Head of the Sustainable Banking Group, Barclays

Dirk Bartsch
Head of ESG, Berlin Hyp

Shargiil Bashir
Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Vice President, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly
Director, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights

Luca Bertalot
Secretary General, European Mortgage Federation – European Covered Bond Council (EMF-ECBC)

Simon Bessant
Global Head of Insurance and Director, The Texel Group

Hans Biemans
Head of Sustainable Markets, ING

Sander Biesma
CEO, NN Re

Claudine Blamey
Chief Sustainability Officer, Aviva

Daniel Bouzas
Regional Lead, Europe

Thomas Brauchle
Head of Sustainability, Siemens Financial Services

Sofia Calltorp
Director, UN Women Geneva Office and Chief of Humanitarian Action

Filipe Camaño Garcia
Manager and Lead, Global Circularity Protocol for Business, WBCSD

Laura Canas da Costa
Co-Lead, Global Policy

Jean-François Chalifoux
President and CEO, Beneva

Mustafa Chaudhry
Co-Lead, Communications

Lauren Clarke-Wiest
Head of Global Climate Hub, Aon

Lara de Mesa
Global Head of Responsible Banking​, Santander

Johannes Hermanus De Wit
Vice President, Executive Board Member, Head of Retail, Bank of Beijing

Xavier Demeulenaere
Research and Analysis Associate Director, S&P Global Mobility

Alejandra Díaz
Chief Sustainability Officer, Banco Davivienda and Seguros Bolívar

Laura Diaz Zea
Implementation Guidance Coordinator and Financial Health & Inclusion Lead

Johanna Dichtl
Implementation Guidance Team Lead

Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Head of ESG, Piraeus Financial Holdings

Vanessa Doger de Spéville
Head, Sustainability, Reputation & Engagement, MCB

Shanning Dong
General Manager, Green Finance Department, Bank of Jiangsu

Esther Egeter
Sustainability Manager, a.s.r.

Lisa Eichler
Head of Physical Risk & Natural Solutions, MSCI

Paul Ekins
Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy, Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resources, University College London

Anna Falth
Global Head of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), UN Women

Amandine Favier
Head of Sustainable Finance, WWF-Switzerland

Lauren Ferstandig
Managing Director, Nature Vest, The Nature Conservancy

Remco Fischer
Co-head of NZAOA Secretariat; Climate Lead, UNEP FI

Jonathan Fowlie
Chief Member Impact and Experience Officer, Vancity

Linda Freiner
Chief Sustainability Officer, Zurich Insurance Group

Warrick Fuchsloch
Senior Client Engagement Specialist, S&P Global Sustinable1

Noelia Garcia Nebra
Head of Sustainability, ISO

Verónica Gavilanes Véjar
General Manager, BancoSol

Romie Goedicke den Hertog
Co-Lead, Nature

Denisse González
Climate Change Specialist, Produbanco

Mark Gough
Executive Director, Natural Capital Coalition

Nik Gowing
Founder and Co-Director, Thinking the Unthinkable

Anja Hannerz
Group Head of Sustainability, Nordea

Makoto Haraguchi
SVP of Sustainability Section, MS&AD Insurance Group

Paul Harris
Sustainable Product Innovation Lead, Bank of Ireland

Irene Heemskerk
Head of the Climate Change Centre, European Central Bank

Glenn Hodes
Senior adviser on SDG investment, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)

Clémence Humeau
Head of Sustainability Coordination and Governance, AXA IM

Tomohiro Ishikawa
Chief Regulatory Engagement Officer, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)

Masaaki Iwabuchi
General Manager, Finance & Investment Planning Department, Nippon Life Insurance Company

Joseph Jacobelli
Advisory Group Expert, ESCAP (FET Project) and Managing Partner, Bougie Impact Capital

Geetu Joshi
Advisor, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance of the Government of India

Marc Kahn
Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer, Investec Group

Patty Karuaihe-Martin
Managing Director, NamibRe

Sean Kidney
CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

Raj Kumar
President & Editor-in-Chief, Devex

Alvaro Lario
President, International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Nathalie Larrousé
Associate Director, Green Financial Systems, Head of Green Capital Markets, EBRD

Christine Lee
Director, Climate and Nature Risk Product Development and Management, S&P Global Sustainable1

Peggy Lefort
Pollution & Circular Economy Lead

Philippe Lionnet
Envoy for Sustainable Finance and Co-Head of the Policy Issues & International Relations unit, State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF), Swiss Federal Department of Finance

Alexandra Lockyer
Senior Sustainable Finance Analyst, UN Women

Philip Lopokoiyit
CEO, ICEA LION Group

Stefan Malchow
Head of Sales, ESG Solutions, SAP Fioneer

Kelvin Massingham
Director, Risk and Resilience FSD Africa

Emily McKenzie
Technical Director, TNFD

Christos Megalou
CEO, Piraeus Bank

João Mestre
Head of Sustainability, Fidelidade Group

Madelena Mohamed
Sustainability Director, Bank Negara Malaysia

Masaaki Nagamura
Fellow International Initiatives, Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.

Puleng Tumelo Ndjwili-Potele
Co-Lead, Banking

Patrick Odier
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Lombard Odier Group and Chair, Building Bridges

Ralph Opara
Group Head, Commercial Banking Division, Access Bank

Yasmine Pagni
Head of Social Policy Unit, Environment, Climate and Social Office (ECSO), Projects Directorate (PJ), EIB

Susanne Pedersen
Director, Science and Knowledge Centre, IUCN

Joana Pedro
Social Lead

Nicolas Picchiottino
Head of Public Development Banks, AFD & Secretary General, IDFC

Franco Piza
Head of Sustainability, Grupo Bancolombia

Hacina Py
Group Chief Sustainability Officer, Societe Generale

Jan Raes
Finance and Plastics Lead

Sue Reid
Climate Finance Advisor to Christiana Figueres, Global Optimism

Rémy Rioux
CEO, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Nick Robins
Professor of Practice in Sustainable Finance, LSE

Mary Robinson
Chair, The Elders & former President of Ireland, & former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Carlos José Santos Lardé
Sustainability Manager, Banco Bolivariano

Clemence Schmid
Director, Global Plastics Action Partnership, World Economic Forum

Kirsten Schuijt
Director General, WWF International

Krishnan Sharma
Principal Economic Affairs Adviser, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, UN DESA

Vincent Siegerink
Economist, OECD WISE Centre and Co-Lead, Impact Management Platform

Maria Simonson
Head of Client Relationship Management and Chief Sustainability Officer, Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK)

Elisabeth Skorna
Chief Financial Officer and Vice-President Finance, DACH, Schneider Electric

Jessica Smith
Lead, Nature

Tomas Soley Perez
General Superintendent, General Superintendence of Insurance of Costa Rica (SUGESE)

Caroline Wakesho Sonje
ESG Specialist, ICEA Lion

Maria Eugenia Sosa Taborda
Membership and Regional Co-ordination Manager

Susan Stawicki
Head of Reporting, UN Global Compact

Elisabeth Stern
Board Member, KlimaSeniorinnen

Saori Takahashi
Manager, Sustainability Management, Corporate Strategy Group, The Norinchukin Bank

Nirnita Talukdar
Regional Lead, Asia Pacific

Grace Tam
Director, Investments, Clean Energy Finance Corporation

Wendy Teleki
Head of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), the World Bank

Massimiano Tellini
Head – Circular Economy, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center

Massamba Thioye
Project Executive, UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub, UNFCCC secretariat

Simon Thompson
Managing Director, Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC)

Quyen Thuc Nguyen
Senior Climate Finance Specialist, Global Product Lead, IFC

Elisa Tonda
Chief of Branch, Industry and Economy Division (IED), UNEP

Cirhan Truswell
Director, Climate Science, Sun Life

Eric Usher
Head, UNEP Finance Initiative

Liesel van Ast
Deputy Head

Rie Vejs-Kjeldgaard
Director of the Sustainable Enterprises, Productivity and Just Transition Department, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Thomas Viegas
Nature Strategy Lead, Aviva

Helena Viñes Fiestas
Co-Chair, Taskforce on Net Zero Policy and Chair, EU Platform on Sustainable Finance

Caroline Wellemans
Head of Unit, Sustainable Finance Policy - DG INTPA, European Commission

Olivier Wibo
Sustainable Finance Solutions Product Manager, Bloomberg

Makaio Witte
Head of Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Economic Transformation and Sustainable Finance Global Project, GIZ

Christine Würfel
Head of Group ESG & Sustainability Management, Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI)

Amanda Zillig
Human Rights Lead, ING

 

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