Alessia Falsarone, SASB FSA, is a Managing Director with PineBridge Investments in New York, a global asset manager focused on high-conviction investing. She is responsible for the alignment of portfolio strategy and investment risk across the developed markets credit platform, including as head of sustainable investing. Prior to PineBridge, she held senior investment roles at AIG, Citigroup and Credit Suisse. Ms. Falsarone is a mentor in the Stanford IGNITE accelerator program and a Member of the Board of 1787fp, a digital platform focused on consumer finance. Ms. Falsarone is an alumna of Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Aaron Franklin is Head of Sustainable Finance for SMBC Americas Division. He joined SMBC in September 2020 and is based in our New York office.

Engaging with clients on sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance is a global priority for SMBC Group and Aaron’s team leads this initiative in the Americas.

Aaron supports clients with integrating sustainability strategy into their financings, including by structuring and executing green bonds, sustainability- linked loans, and related instruments. Aaron also supports the development and implementation of client-related ESG-focused policies and goals, such as targets to reduce SMBC Group’s financed emissions.

Aaron has more than eight years of experience in sustainable finance, previously serving as the Global Coordinator for Sustainable Capital Markets for a major international law firm, and more than 10 years in international finance. In
this prior role, Aaron was legal counsel to the underwriters in the first-ever sustainability-linked bond and served on the Advisory Council to the Green Bond Principles Executive Committee.

Aaron has a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, where he focused on international development, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. He holds Series 63 and 79 FINRA licenses.

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

Ivan also steered the way to make Amalgamated Bank the first U.S. bank to commit to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and the first bank to set portfolio wide targets under the United Nations guidelines for target setting.

Federico Galizia is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of the Inter-American Development Bank, responsible for managing market, credit, socio-environmental, and operational risk, in accordance with the shareholders’ triple-A mandate. He is a founding member of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) CRO Forum, which coordinates the joint MDBs response to G20 initiatives.

Federico was previously Head of Risk and Portfolio Management at the European Investment Fund, Adviser to the President of the European Investment Bank and Deputy Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

Ekaterina currently serves as global lead for design and implementation of environmental and social risk management systems in World Bank’s investments involving financial and private sector. She works with ministries of finance and economy, central banks, regional and national development banks, funds, special purpose vehicles, sustainable energy, transport, and water development entities and other types of the World Bank’s counterparts in nearly 20 countries to ensure full integration of environmental and social sustainability into commercial financial sector lending operations and public-private partnerships.

Hannah Herold leads American Century Investments’ ESG and Investment Stewardship team’s research efforts. Since joining the team in 2018, Ms. Herold has worked closely with the firm’s investment teams in the establishment of its ESG integration framework and development of screening and assessment tools. In her role, Ms. Herold manages the team’s research pipeline and has additional research responsibilities primarily focused on global large- and mid-cap equities and human capital management. Before joining American Century, Ms. Herold was an associate and team leader at Bernstein Global Wealth Management. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from Vanderbilt University.

Currently, focused in the area intersecting Financial and Climate change related risks and opportunities. Currently focused on evolution of regulatory landscape, climate risk management including, stress testing, scenario analysis and data gathering. Low carbon economy transition, business model impacts from adaptation and mitigation approaches such as clean Technologies.

20 years industry experience in Risk and Control areas including – Independent pricing and valuation (IPV), Risk Management and Audit at Global Investment banks.

Heading audit function focusing on Model risks and enterprise stress testing.

Climate Risk Management, Regulatory and Disclosure trends, Stress testing, Strategies and approaches

Vice President of Global Sustainability for American Express Global Business Travel, providing subject matter expertise and spearheading sustainability strategy with respect to internal targets and external products and services.
Previously, Nora was a litigator at Schulte, Roth & Zabel, with a specialty in environmental law. Headline cases included representing the country of Mexico in a lawsuit against British Petroleum in connection with the natural resource damages and economic devastation resulting from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nora served as a law clerk for the Natural Resources Defense Council within the Climate Program, writing NRDC’s comment in response to the EPA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act.
Nora also served as a law clerk for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California, Criminal Division, Major Frauds Section, Environmental Crimes Unit, prosecuting a high-profile asbestos case against a major utility company before a jury.
Nora has a B.S. (Environmental Science) from Cornell University and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

As Head of Analytics and Chief Risk Officer, supporting Global Treasury, at State Street Corporation Deniz is focused on providing quantitative solutions consisting of Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence (data analytics, reporting) for corporate functions and business lines across the bank. In parallel, she is also responsible for risk oversight of Treasury’s activities, which includes managing the investment portfolio, asset-liability risk, liquidity risk, funding and liability pricing, and capital structure, in her role as CRO for Treasury

Clinton is a leader with a deep understanding and a broad knowledge of the climate risk and sustainability issues facing financial institutions and their clients. He provides advisory services on sustainability related issues, and most recently served as Rabobank’s Head of Risk Management Financial Markets Americas and as a Board Member at Rabo Securities.

At Rabobank North America, Clinton established and led a climate risk integration working group focused on implementing the bank’s global climate program locally while attending to all relevant stakeholder needs and local business and regulatory considerations. In this capacity, Clinton was also an active member of the Institute of International Bankers climate risk working group.

Clinton’s climate, capital markets and risk management experience provides him with a unique perspective on climate risk as a financial risk, enabling him to execute practical, creative, solutions to complex problems when he engages with senior level clients, regulators and internal stakeholders. By combining client advocacy, training and product structuring, he helps to drive sustainability finance forward as a tool to help address the most pressing climate risk issues facing the sector.

His more than 20 years of global financial services market experience spans debt capital markets, commodities, derivatives and money market instruments, and it includes senior-level experience with risk frameworks covering credit, liquidity and market risk.

Clinton currently provides advisory and training services for issues related to climate finance and carbon markets.

Elliott focuses on helping customers and business partners understand and manage ESG risks more effectively. Elliott specializes in analytic solutions development. As a former management consultant, he has 20+ years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies to develop business processes and capabilities to optimize operations. His experience spans a broad range of industries, including financial services, life sciences, and manufacturing. He has held executive roles with several software solution providers.

Yes, the Center for Financial Professionals are happy to discuss speaking opportunities at the ESG USA Congress. For further information on this please contact alice.kelly@cefpro.com or call us on +1 888 677 7007.

Business attire is requested. The Congress is a formal opportunity to network with like-minded professionals and to gain knowledge from the industry’s finest risk management experts.

We offer incentives for ‘early bird’ registrants of the Congress, as outlined on our pricing structure. Registration includes breakfast, refreshment breaks, lunches, the cocktail reception at the end of the day, full access to the sessions and exhibition area. Presentations from the sessions are also available, subject to speaker approval.

All registered attendees will receive an email with access to documentation and speaker presentations after the Congress*. We will work with our presenters to include as many presentations as possible on our App during the Congress.

* Please note that our speakers often have to gain permission from their relevant compliance departments to release their presentations. On rare occasions compliance may not allow presentations to be distributed.

Yes. As with all of our events, the Center for Financial Professionals will be providing brilliant coffee, breakfast, lunch, refreshments, and smaller bites during the networking breaks.

There are ample opportunities for networking and interaction throughout the Congress, such as:

• Breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
• Cocktail reception at the end of the day (subject to confirmation)
• Q&A, panel discussions and audience participation technology

Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of ESG USA Congress and our wider risk professionals community. At the event we can distribute your material to the attendees, offer you an exhibition booth, and provide speaking opportunities so that you may enjoy a more prominent presence at the Congress. Visit the Sponsor tab for further information or contact sales@cefpro.com / +1 888 677 7007

Yes. As part of a media partnership we can offer a variety of options to increase the branding and awareness of your association, company, certificate, publication or media. We are flexible with what we can offer however we usually:

• Provide a discounted rate to attend
• Place your logo and profile on the Congress website
• Place your logo on promotional content where applicable
• Distribute your media/marketing at the Congress
• Promote through social media channels

To discuss this further please contact lauren.carter@cefpro.com or call +1 888 677 7007.

If you are unable to attend the Congress due to national/Covid restrictions, CeFPro would be more than happy to offer you a refund, credit note or the option to transfer the ticket to a colleague who is able to attend.

Yes, CPE Credits are available for the ESG USA Congress.