As the Global Chief Sustainability Officer, Sarah is responsible for leading the ongoing development and execution of Manulife’s sustainability, community investment and sponsorship strategy and oversees and guides Manulife’s environmental, social & governance (ESG) reporting and disclosures. Before joining Manulife, Sarah was National Director of Sustainability & Social Impact advisory at Deloitte in Canada and led the Social Innovation business at Hitachi. She has her PhD in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Centre for Corporate Governance at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia), Master’s in Management from Bond University, and a Bachelor of Science from The University of Western Ontario.

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.

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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.

Jennifer Grzech is a director and member of the responsible investing (RI) team at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA. Nuveen’s responsible investing team oversees the firm’s holistic RI vision and unified framework across Nuveen and TIAA.

Jennifer’s responsibilities include developing Nuveen’s strategy of engagement with companies, policy-makers, regulators and industry organizations around important ESG issues and standards.

Jennifer received her M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and graduated with her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky.

Frederick W. Isleib III, CFA, is Director, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Research and Integration at Manulife Investment Management. He collaborates directly with US-based portfolio managers and investment analysts responsible for some of the firm’s largest equities and fixed income strategies (by AUM) to integrate ESG risks and opportunities into the investment decision-making and risk monitoring process.  In his role, Fred leads ESG engagements with high profile Fortune 500 companies, as well as the broader US investment universe, to foster improved ESG management standards among some of the firm’s most significant holdings. He is also responsible for the generation of the thematic and top down research related to emerging ESG investment issues.

Prior to joining Manulife, Frederick was director of research of clean energy markets at Nexant Inc., where he focused on the US renewable energy markets and the development of distributed energy generation.

Previously, Frederick spent 17 years at Putnam Investments, including seven years as a global fundamental equity research analyst following the financials, technology and industrials sectors. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Boston.

Education: Bentley University, BS in Accounting, 1993; Babson College, MBA, 2001

Eivind Lorgen is the former CEO & President of Nordea Asset Management (NAM) and the former Head of the Manager Selection. He is a founding member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Investor Advisory Group (IAG) and the current Chair for SASB’s IAG.  Board Chair, Board Member and senior expert advisor to corporate issuers, investment management funds and firms, non-profit organizations including leading business schools.

Prior to joining Nordea, he was an Executive Managing Director at Zurich Insurance Group.

Eivind is on the Reiman School of Finance Advisory Board for the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He holds a BSBA from the University of Denver. His Master’s Diploma is issued by the Norwegian School of Economics. His Executive Management education is from IMD, Switzerland and The London Business School. Eivind is also an Adjunct Professor and has lectured at Daniels College of Business and Columbia Business School.

Eivind served 16 months in the Norwegian Royal Air Force and played varsity soccer for University of Denver. He lives in Harlem, Manhattan with his family

Dr. Lourenco Miranda is the Regional Head of Environmental & Social Risks and Model Risk at Société Générale Corporate Investment Bank. He joined the Bank in New York in February 2016 as Managing Director Head of Capital Planning, Assessment and Review (CCAR) in New York. Prior to that, within his 24 years of financial industry experience, Dr. Miranda has held multiple leadership roles in Risk Management and Finance at internationally active Financial Institutions in multipl regions and more than 70 countries and regulatory jurisdictions in 5 regions. On the academic world, for the past 25 years, Dr. Miranda has held faculty positions in multiple academic centers worldwide in the field of Risk Management and Financial Mathematics and has been in the board of international professional institutions and a regular speaker at major international risk conferences. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of Risk Management, Stress Testing, Machine Learning and Data Science at Fordham University in NYC. Besides that, Lourenco is a published author of academic and professional articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer of professional and academic Journals in Risk and Finance. Lourenco holds a PhD in Statistical Physics and Quantitative Financial Risk Modeling.

Amit Madaan, CFA, FRM, is head of modeling and research for sustainable investing within Aladdin Sustainability Lab. He is responsible for building BlackRock analytical capabilities in climate change risk on financial instruments.

Prior to this role, Mr. Madaan was co-head of commercial credit modeling and research. Mr. Madaan was responsible for the design, estimation and monitoring of models for US CRE debt and CMBS.

Mr. Madaan has published extensively including co-authoring “Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities” (The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities by Fabozzi, 9th Edition), which was published in 2021. Mr. Madaan also co-authored a chapter in the “World Scientific Encyclopedia of Climate Change: Case Studies of Climate Risk, Action, and Opportunity”, which was published in 2021.

Mr. Madaan co-authored BII publication “Getting Physical: Scenario analysis for assessing climate-related risks” paper and has published research articles to Commercial Real Estate Finance World and Pension Real Estate Association magazines.

Mr. Madaan holds B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and MBA from Emory University.

Felician (Felix) Stratmann is a Vice President in Morgan Stanley’s Fixed Income Research department, based in New York. He covers US corporate credit, with a focus on investment grade corporate bonds, credit derivatives, and ESG within the broader US credit markets. Felix joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 and worked in the firm’s Global Capital Markets division prior to joining Research. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of South Carolina.

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