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.

Grace is a Senior Product Specialist at Clarity AI, with a focus on Climate. Grace engages with clients to understand their needs around climate assessment and reporting, and to support the integration of tools and data into their investment and reporting workflows and infrastructure. As a central point of coordination, she also synthesizes feedback and ideas from clients and the broader marketplace to support the development of Clarity AI’s Climate solutions to address current and future needs.

Prior to joining Clarity she has worked at BlackRock and EY across a range of sustainability and finance topics. She has a degree in financial mathematics and actuarial science from the University College Cork.

Marie Clara Buellingen is the Head of Sustainable Finance for the Americas for Societe Generale. She has more than 15 years of cross-sector sustainability experience helping advance the bank’s clients ESG strategies, programs and financing needs. Her work focuses on the linkages of ESG strategy to capital allocation and sustainable value creation in line with investor expectations, regulatory requirements and best practices such as TCFD, SASB, CDP, UNPRI, UNSDGs and GRI.

Prior to joining the bank, Marie Clara advised corporates as well as large institutional investors on the development of sustainable business practices and investment stewardship strategies. Early in her career, Marie Clara worked in the public policy space with diplomatic postings to Washington, D.C., and Tokyo.

She holds a MSc in Global Business and Finance from Georgetown University as well as a Master of Law from the University of Vienna.

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.

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.

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.

Tahmina Day has over 18 years of experience in risk management and sustainability. For over 11 years, Ms. Day served as a Corporate Governance Officer of the International Finance Corporation (IFC, a member of the World Bank Group) within the ESG Group. In that role, she was the leading expert in risk management and ESG, providing advisory services to IFC investment portfolio companies across the globe.

Recently, Ms. Day served as a risk and compliance leader at CIT Group, Inc., Fannie Mae, and Seacoast Bank.

At her current role as a Global ESG Solution Lead at Archer, she leads the ESG vertical to develop a holistic ESG technology that is integrated with ERM.

Tahmina holds an MBA degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. She is a Certified Enterprise Risk Professional (CERP).

Grace is a SVP in Model Risk with China Construction Bank in New York. Grace has more than 18 years of credit risk analytics and model risk experience focused on consumer and commercial loans in the banking industry. She worked at Citigroup during 2008 Financial Crisis in credit risk portfolio management and during Covid-19 in CCAR loss forecasting/model governance. She helped two mid-sized banks with stress testing and CECL regulatory programs.

Grace holds a Master of Science from MIT Sloan School of Management, a Master of Science in Business Management and a Bachelor in Finance and Accounting from Peking University.

Hervé Duteil created the first position of Chief Sustainability Officer for BNP Paribas in the Americas in 2014. In this role, he leads the Bank’s regional strategy for Sustainable Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Company Engagement, bringing in particular a strong focus on promoting client dialogue around sustainability topics and the development of tailored financing solutions or responsible investment products. In 2018, Euromoney selected him as one of the 10 “champions of global impact banking”.

Hervé has spent most of his career with BNP Paribas in New York. He specialized in trading derivatives and managing capital market activities, spanning across commodity, currency, fixed income and electronic markets. More recently, he led BNP Paribas’ efforts to close its first Social Impact Bond for the benefit of the State of Connecticut, followed by a second one with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Hervé served as a member on the CFTC’s Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee of the Market Risk Advisory Committee. He currently sits on SIFMA Sustainable Finance Task Force, WBCSD’s Sustainable Finance Policy task force as well as the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance Advisory Board.

Hervé holds a Master in Business Administration with distinction from the Harvard Business School, a Master of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics & Physics from the University of Paris. Formerly a professional concert musician, he received various certificates from the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

Matthew Eby is the Founder and CEO of First Street Foundation, a research and technology nonprofit working to define America’s climate risk. Under Matthew’s leadership, the Foundation created a first-of-its-kind, peer-reviewed flood model, wildfire model, and extreme heat model to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk of every property in the United States. The Foundation has also calculated the associated economic damage for every property and made all of this data available through Risk Factor, a consumer facing website that is directly integrated for every property on websites such as Realtor.com and Redfin. Matthew holds an Honors Business Commerce degree and an MBA from McMaster University in Canada.

Matthew is a recognized business leader with global experience. He has worked and lived in Toronto, Tokyo, London, Atlanta, and New York. Before creating the First Street Foundation, Matthew founded and served as CEO of Anthro, a digital marketing agency serving social good and non-profit organizations. Before that, he was the Senior Vice President of Consumer and Brand Marketing for The Weather Company, where he managed a portfolio of brands including The Weather Channel (digital and broadcast) and the Weather Underground.

climate finance. An award-winning author, she is a graduate of Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Bocconi University (Milan).

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).

Andrew Ford is a Vice President and Head of Morgan Stanley’s Sustainable Insights Lab. He currently leads the Firm’s ESG data efforts and oversees the quantitative integration of sustainability content into investment strategies and digital applications across all asset classes. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he was an ESG Research Analyst at BlueSky Investment Management responsible for ESG-integration into financial models. He graduated from Dickinson College with degrees in Mathematics and Economics, and Columbia University with a graduate degree in Applied Analytics.

Beth Gilroy, Deputy Head of Sustainability and Environmental & Social Risk in Global Corporate & Investment Banking – Americas, joined MUFG in 1988. Beth co-leads the enterprise-wide ESG program for the largest foreign bank in the U.S., making strategic recommendations to management on MUFG’s ESG commitments, policies, transactions, and sustainability data transformation, transition finance, and product development. Responsible for environmental sustainability and management since 2020, resuming a role she held from the early 2000’s to 2014, Beth manages environmental and social risk management, Equator Principles due diligence, training for business departments on risks and opportunities, stakeholder engagement, and our sustainable finance commitment and carbon footprint.

She works with the Americas Reputation Risk Management Office and Tokyo Head Office on industry initiatives and sector policies, and researches emerging issues. Prior roles include management of the bank’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA or social) loan fund and CRA compliance for more than 20 years, including creation and management of a grants foundation, and senior editor in Corporate Communications for four years.

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.

Sarah Haley is an ESG strategist and social scientist with 15+ years’ experience in financial services, public policy, legal and regulatory compliance, and environmental and social risk management. She has a passion for evolving traditional shareholder-primary business models to multi-stakeholder business models to assign value to sustainable, equitable, and inclusive economic activities measured by both financial and nonfinancial performance at the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit. Her expertise resides in ESG strategy and program design and architecture with a focus on integrating climate, nature, and human rights considerations into existing risk and control frameworks.

Sarah has her MBA from Drake University and is a Ph.D. of Public Policy candidate at UNC Charlotte with a research focus on the societal impacts of climate change. She holds FSA, GRI, SCR, SEP, and ESRA credentials.

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.

Eugene Montoya joined Wells Fargo’s Sustainability Group in January of 2020 as the company’s first dedicated climate change specialist at an enterprise officer level. Since joining, he’s worked steadfastly on the integration of climate-related risk and climate-related opportunity data and modeling into various use cases including CDP/TCFD reporting as well net-zero sectoral target setting and measurement for financial portfolios.

Eugene proudly complements his net-zero competencies with a focused purpose to accelerate Waterfront Alliance’s Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG) uptake in the global financial system. Prior to Wells Fargo & Waterfront Alliance, Eugene was a climate action organizer and senior foreign bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Previous to the Fed, Eugene has worked on climate-related risks & opportunities since 2009 with direct and significant experiences across the buy side, sell side, ETFs, infrastructure project finance, commercial banking, and sovereign wealth funds/United Nations climate adaptation finance.

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.

Frazer has worked at Citi for 8 years as a manager of environmental and social client/transaction due diligence and the implementation of Citi’s environmental and social risk management standard globally. Frazer specializes financial industry impacts to (and reliance upon) biodiversity and ecosystem services with an emphasis on agribusiness in Latin America and leads the bank’s implementation of the Citi sustainable agribusiness standard and approach to deforestation and conversion free.

Prior to Citigroup Frazer worked for the U.S. Department of Defense in Afghanistan, the United Nations Mission in Liberia, and the U.S. Peace Corps in Costa Rica.

Colleen is the Senior Vice President of Third-Party Risk Software Products at Shared Assessments, where she leads the TPRM software team in the development of the software products/tools for third party risk assurance.

Colleen has over 20 years of experience within the financial services industry and consulting. She has led programs associated with risk management, procurement/contract negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, and business process reengineering. She has regulatory and global experience executing portfolios to meet the corporate strategy.

Recently, Colleen managed the Third-Party Security Risk Assurance team for a bank where she reported to the CSO and ensured all due diligence, continuous monitoring, and privacy requirements were met for the third-party inventory. She also was the Chair for the BITS Third Party Risk Committee with representation from multiple firms addressing the best practices and increased regulatory focus on fourth parties. She also managed the Cyber Delivery Management team executing the projects including third parties.

Maria Patschke is the CEO of SAP Fioneer ESG Solutions. She leads the SAP Fioneer focus on equipping financial services institutions with the tools to manage their portfolios from an ESG perspective, helping them fulfill necessary regulatory requirements, identify sustainable and transition opportunities and to come to data driven decisions for investments, loans and Net Zero steering.

Maria started working in Venture Capital and moved to Investment Banking as a sector expert for renewable energies. After successfully building a corporate finance platform that imbues meaningful ESG data in the credit application, she decided to go all in with ESG and is now building a comprehensive solution for banks and insurance companies. 

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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).

Eugenie Schwob is a Sustainability Risk Manager at BlackRock. Her team acts as a central cross-asset class expert team within the Risk & Quantitative Analysis (RQA) group. They provide independent oversight of BlackRock’s investment and enterprise risks to protect the firm and its clients. They also participate in firmwide tactical projects, such as consultation on methodologies, climate models’ developments, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) in Europe or definition of Transition Products.

Eugenie is co-author of the article “The effect of climate risks on the interactions between financial markets and energy companies” published in Nature Energy. She also contributed to emissions methodologies under the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF).

Eugenie earned a Master’s degree in Finance from MIT and a Master’s degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in France. She is a holder of GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk certification.

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.

Stephen Skrobala is Director of Banking and Capital Markets and North American Lead for ESG at SAP Fioneer. He teams with FSI firms to align IT investments with business objectives and priorities that have multi-line of business impact. Recent engagements include Accounting for ESG, Digital Finance, Mortgage Platforms, Machine Learning, and Applied Analytics.

With executive roles at JPMorgan Chase and ABN Amro, he has over 20 years of experience in both Retail and Commercial Banking.

Mr. Skrobala has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Villanova University in Pennsylvania and an MBA from Fordham University in New York City.

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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First Street Foundation’s mission is to make climate risk accessible, easy to understand and actionable for individuals, governments, and industry.

A changing climate is impacting the risks facing American properties, communities, and businesses as perils such as flood, fire, heat, and others become more common and more severe. The best science on these issues is complex, happening in silos, and left in peer review journals, making it largely inaccessible to everyday Americans. Until recently, there was no easy, accurate way for individuals to understand how environmental changes will impact them personally. First Street’s work addresses that gap to ensure every American homeowner, renter, business, and community has access to the best climate risk data. Through RiskFactor.com, First Street provides in-depth, climate adjusted, property specific risk assessments for homes across the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

First Street’s data and models also help inform federal government agencies like Fannie Mae, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the U.S. Departments of Treasury, and Commerce, and others in their assessment of climate risk to the U.S. economy.

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