Sharon Asaf is a Director in Global Climate Risk at Citigroup. Before joining Citi last year, Sharon was the Climate Risk Framework Executive at Bank of America, where she led the transformation efforts associated with embedding climate risk into the risk framework and core risk management processes. Sharon has more than 15 years of experience working in quantitative finance, both in the private and public sectors.  Prior to Climate Risk, Sharon led the validation of models used for scenario generation to drive CCAR and interest rate risk measurement, valuation of mortgage servicing rights and capital calculations.

Sarah Bratton Hughes is a senior vice president and head of ESG & Sustainable Investing for American Century Investments, a premier investment manager headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. She is based in the company’s New York office.

Sarah is responsible for the driving and executing the firm’s sustainable investing strategy and the management of its ESG research platform and active ownership practices. In her role, she oversees the firm’s dedicated ESG & Investment Stewardship team. Sarah and her team serve as the center of ESG assessment tools, managing the ESG engagement and proxy voting protocol and driving sustainable invent initiatives and client solutions.

Climate Risk Lead @ UNEP-FI

David Carlin leads the climate risk and TCFD program for UNEP- Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). He has worked with over 100 financial institutions on topics of climate scenarios, climate risk assessments, and climate governance. He and his team support financial actors across the world to develop best practices for managing climate risks and identifying climate opportunities.

He currently advises UNEP FI’s Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). He has also been a technical advisor to the Glasgow Financial Alliances for Net Zero (GFANZ).

He is the founder of Cambium Global Solutions, which helps governments, corporations, and financial institutions address the most pressing environmental challenges and thrive in a changing world.

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.

Marika Christopher is a Senior Director of the Responsible Investing (RI) Team at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA. Marika’s responsibilities include developing Nuveen’s RI strategic foresight on regulation, macro trends, and solutioning for clients.  Prior to joining Nuveen in 2022, Marika served as a Senior Director of Product Strategy & ESG at Janus Henderson Investors for nearly five years. She joined Janus Henderson after spending several years with Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Treasury Strategies, a consulting arm of Curinos, for the first decade of her career.

Marika completed her international business degree and her international MBA from the University of Denver.  She is a registered FINRA professional (Series 63 and Series 7) and has completed the Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA UK.

Kevin is an Executive Director within UBS’s Group Compliance Regulatory and Governance  function focusing on regulatory and supervisory developments within the US and implications for the firm’s global business activities.  Prior to joining UBS in early 2017, Kevin was with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in their Financial Services Risk and Regulatory practice advising foreign and domestic banking organizations on evolving regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations pertaining to Enhanced Prudential Standards, capital and liquidity risk management and stress testing, enterprise risk management and governance and resolution planning. Prior to PWC, Kevin served as an officer within the Bank Supervision function at the Board of Governors in Washington DC and the Federal Reserve Bank of NY from 1988 to 2012 in a variety of capacities ranging from CCAR stress testing, liquidity risk management, credit risk derivatives, model risk management to regulatory capital and internal capital models.

Jayme Colosimo is an ESG investment director at Capital Group, home of American Funds. She has 21 years of industry experience and joined Capital Group in 2022. Prior to joining Capital, Jayme worked as global head of ESG in business advisory services at Citigroup Global Markets. She holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in international business from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Jayme is based in New York.

As Vice President of Sustainability at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Hal Corin oversees development and operations of sustainability, energy efficiency, renewable development and procurement, water conservation, and physical decarbonization ambitions of the firm’s Global Real Estate division.  Hal’s focus is on achieving the firm’s public commitments including a 40% Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions reduction by 2030, 70% electricity sourcing of on-site or grid procured renewables by 2025, a 20% reduction in global water consumption by 2030, among others.

Hal holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and a Master in Business Administration from Elon University.

Leah Daly joined the Corporate Social Responsibility team to lead development and execution of the Environmental, Social and Governance strategy in August 2021.  Immediately prior Leah led risk governance within Enterprise Risk Management, after joining Santander in 2017.  Prior to joining Santander, Leah worked for Tapestry Networks, leading banking and insurance board advisory networks for the Top 50 global financial institutions.

Leah received her Bachelor’s from Dartmouth College and her Master’s in Public Policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Alessia Falsarone is a practitioner faculty at the University of Chicago leading the Circular Economy and Sustainable Business Management program. She previously spent fifteen years as Managing Director, head of sustainable investing, portfolio strategy and risk for a global asset manager based in New York, and also held leadership roles with AIG and Citigroup. Alessia serves as independent director in public and private company boards in Europe and the UK, and is part of high-level advisory groups promoting environmental and
climate finance. An award-winning author, she is a graduate of Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bocconi University (Milan).

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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.

Ekaterina joined the World Bank Group in 2005 as a specialist in sustainable financial markets at the International Finance Corporation, working to help IFC’s financial sector clients integrate ESG into their operations from both risk management and sustainable investment opportunities perspectives. Ekaterina’s role also included furthering multi-stakeholder partnerships around sustainable finance, such as the Equator Principles. She served on the steering and advisory committees of several sustainable finance initiatives such as Natural Capital Finance Alliance, Trade Standards Practitioners Network, Responsible Finance Forum, Global Impact Investing Network’s IRIS initiative.

Ekaterina has also been part of task teams that formulated institutional policies governing WBG’s approach to environmental and social sustainability in its investment operations, namely IFC Performance Standards and the new World Bank Environmental and Social Framework.

Ekaterina holds a PhD in Economics, an MBA from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a degree in business and commerce from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Imtiaz Hussain is the Deputy Chief Auditor at BNY Mellon responsible for Investment Management and Wealth Management, Human Resources and ESG, Global Compliance, and Audit Innovation & Analytics. His primary responsibilities include creation of Internal Audit strategy, and risk based annual audit plan; delivery of audit projects in a timely manner and within budget; and seamless operations of the Audit Function. Imtiaz is responsible for driving Audit’s Agile Transformation initiative, and sponsoring strategy for auditing ESG.

Imtiaz received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Slippery Rock University and completed his MBA in International Finance and Strategy from George Washington University. Imtiaz is a Certified Public Accountant and holds several certifications in the field of Banking and Project Management.

Derek is an investment professional specializing in portfolio construction and risk management. His current focus is on climate risk and climate solutions asset classes: farmland and timberland.

Derek has been with TIAA and Nuveen since 2015 and currently serves as Head of Climate Risk where he is responsible for coordinating and leading the build of climate risk management frameworks throughout the enterprise. Derek has 18 years of experience in investment management and risk management. Prior to joining TIAA and Nuveen, Derek was a Senior Equity Analyst covering natural resource sectors and has held various roles including quantitative analyst, emerging markets specialist and structured products analyst.

Derek earned a degree in Economics from Princeton University, with a certificate in Finance and a certificate in Applied Computational Mathematics. He holds the CFA, CAIA, FRM and SCR designations.

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Si-Yeon Kim is Chief Risk and Compliance Officer and Executive Chair of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) for American Express Global Business Travel (GBT), overseeing Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, and the Environmental, Social and Governance mission for the company.
Previously, Ms. Kim served as Chief Compliance Officer for One Equity Partners (OEP) and Assistant General Counsel at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC). OEP was JPMC’s private equity investment arm, where she oversaw all financial and bank regulatory matters for OEP and its portfolio companies. Before joining OEP, Ms. Kim was the General Counsel of Avon – Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong, and prior to that, Assistant General Counsel at Avon Products, Inc.’s Global Corporate Headquarters in New York. She began her law career at Chadbourne & Parke LLP.
Ms. Kim received her J.D. from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, her A.M. from Harvard University in Russian Regional Studies, and her B.A. from Seoul National University in Russian Language and Literature.

Markus Lammer is the Chief Operating Officer of the Ultra High Net Worth business for Credit Suisse in the US. He launched the Ultra High Net Worth coverage platform in Investment Banking and Capital Markets. Markus is also the Chief Operating Officer for the Financial Institutions and the Oil & Gas Groups.

Previously, he was the Chief Operating Officer for Credit Suisse Germany and Central Europe, and also the Head of the Board of Credit Suisse Germany. Markus received his Mag. Degree from University of Graz in Austria, and his LLM from Yale University as a Fulbright Scholar.

Santosh Mishra heads the Credit Modeling function for KeyBank’s entire Loan and Lease portfolio. He is currently responsible for development and implementation of Stress testing and CECL models. Additionally, he also leads the Commercial Risk Rating, Economic Capital, functions and is architect of numerous commercial analytics initiatives to support KeyBank’s strategic goals. Last but not the least, Santosh is leading KeyBank’s Climate analytics including Financed emissions and Scenario analysis.

In continued efforts to implement a sustainable culture, Dr. Tobi Petrocelli is the Director of Environmental and Sustainability Management at MUFG Americas. Dr. Petrocelli leads the Sustainable Business Office and is responsible for the creation, implementation, and management of the Bank’s Sustainability program, which is based on the principles of sustainability:

* Foster economic, social, and environmental sustainability

* Promote financial prosperity, sociocultural equity, and diversity

* Conserve natural resources to preserve and improve the environment

Tobi creates efficient environmental, social and governance policies and programs throughout the bank’s operations including climate risk management, carbon reduction efforts and the subsequent reporting through standardized metrics and frameworks. Secondly, she helps develop products and services that serve the markets demand for more sustainable opportunities for investors. “In banking there are internal value drivers and external customer strategies – these typically run parallel rather in synchrony and my responsibility is to integrate ESG factors throughout MUFG and its subsidiaries.” Additionally, Petrocelli heads ESG Client Engagement for the Global Corporate Investment Banking division, implementing and supporting the portfolio clients toward the transition to a low carbon economy.

Dr. Petrocelli’s extensive experience includes her position as Founder of Verde Enterprises, a company created to develop sustainable solutions and best practices for capital systems and corporate operations through technological innovation and corporate responsibility. Her industry expertise is in the areas of corporate banking, infrastructure, communications and consumer -creating growth in profitability by assessing environmental, economic and social governance and mapping solutions for improvement. She is an international contributor in the field of sustainability through her previous roles as Sustainability consultant with the United Nations Environmental Programme in Geneva, Switzerland; Sustainability Advisor with AccountAbility in NY; and Director of Strategic Initiatives & Sustainability with Clearbrook Global Advisors. Tobi Petrocelli holds a Doctorate in International Business from Walden University and a Masters in Sustainability Management from Columbia University.

Karl Pettersen is Chief Sustainability Officer for the Americas at SocieteGenerale, with the mandate of fostering a client-centric sustainability conversation for the Americas, as well as overseeing all aspects sustainability product and target development in the region.

Prior to his role as CSO, Karl was Head of Ratings Advisory for the Americas at SocieteGenerale, where he developed deep and long-standing advisory relationships with the bank’s key clients, around communication tactics, financial policies, and the development of novel analytical tools.

Karl worked at UBS in London from 2005 to 2007, as Head of Emerging Markets Ratings Advisory, where he advised primarily Russian and CIS clients, and supervised ratings advisory for European leveraged finance at UBS.

From 2000 to 2005, Karl worked at Moody’s in London, where he held a variety of senior analytical roles; Karl was also Vice President – Standards & Criteria, where he was in charge of formulating, writing, and publishing Moody’s corporate finance rating methodologies.

Karl holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

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Christel is the current Chief of the Environmental and Social Risk Management Unit in the Office of Risk Management bringing her innovative perspective to transform the way the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) manages environmental, social, and governance risk. In this capacity, she is responsible for climate, disaster, biodiversity, environmental, social, and governance risk management oversight, quality assurance, and portfolio monitoring and reporting. Her vision for a sustainable and inclusive future empowers her team to explore emerging risks and practices, to constantly learn and grow, and to continuously improve processes for the benefit of the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Christel has over 17 years of expertise in development, portfolio, project, and risk management from international development organizations and the private sector. Her years of experience at the IDB include roles as Budget Officer in corporate and operational departments, as well as experience in the field as the Chief of Operations in the Barbados office followed by the position of Operations and Business Transformation Advisor for the Vice-Presidency for Countries.

Christel holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Economics and Public Administration from the University of Bordeaux IV in France, as well as a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Houston, Clear Lake, Texas, USA. She also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from PMI, is certified in INDES Project Management for Results (PM4R), has been part of the Emerging Women Leaders Program (IDB), and has participated in several USAID Rules and Regulations Workshops.  Christel is fluent in five languages:  English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Kriolu (Cape Verde).

Marina Severinovsky is the Head of Sustainability, North America, and leads the sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration for Schroders investments in North America. She collaborates with senior managers on market strategy, client communications, product development, sales, and investor management. Marina was previously the Investment Director for North America for Quantitative Equity Products, an Investment Strategist, and an Alternatives Specialist at Schroders. Prior to Schroders, Marina was an investment banker at Citi. She holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics from Columbia University.

David Szmigielski serves as Director in Wells Fargo’s Sustainable Finance & Advisory Group within the Corporate & Investment Bank where he responsible for engaging with corporate clients on their strategic sustainability priorities well as origination and structuring of sustainable finance instruments. Previously, David served in similar roles at the nexus of sustainability and the capital markets with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC Group), UniCredit Bank AG, Ernst & Young, and the United Nations. David holds a Master of Science in International Business and Bachelor of Science in Foreign Trade and International Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany. David is a member of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association’s Working Group on Sustainable Finance and ESG Task Force as well as the International Capital Markets Association’s Working Group on Social Bonds.

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