ESG Europe 2023 Draft

 Baba is a seasoned banker with experience across ESG/sustainability, risk management, governance, compliance, debt arranging and credit stewardship. He provides advice and oversight of ESG governance, risk management and controls to businesses within Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets. Baba’s involvement with ESG/sustainability dates back to 2003 when he helped launch the Equator Principles. Baba’s experience includes sustainability strategy formulation, building capacity for analysing and advising on ESG risks associated with clients and transactions, coordinating stakeholders to help capture sustainability related business opportunities, developing and embedding ESG policies and process, and conducting oversight reviews for stakeholder assurance purposes.

Celia Lambert-Alcantara will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

Gustavo Brianza will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

Gianluca is the Global Head of Sustainability and Climate Risk at Credit Suisse. He protects the bank via a global framework of consistent risk appetite and governance processes, also by assessing and managing environmental and social risks with which the Bank could be associated through the provision of financial services to clients. Within Credit Suisse, he previously headed the Enterprise Risk function for International Wealth Management and Credit Portfolio Management team for UK Investment Banking entities.Gianluca also covered a Senior Financial Engineer role at Algorithmics, leading projects on Market, Credit and Liquidity Risk.Gianluca started his career as a strategist/trader for FCT Group in 2006, just in time to experience some of the 2008 volatility where he learnt first-hand the importance of holistic risk management.

John George is a Director and member of the Responsible Investing (RI) Team at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA. John’s responsibilities include developing Nuveen’s strategic foresight on issues related to ESG integration, engagement, stewardship, and investment. Prior to joining Nuveen in 2021, John worked at BlackRock as a Strategist within the Sustainable Products group. He joined BlackRock after spending four-and-a-half years at Lord Abbett, an asset management firm primarily focused on fixed income markets. At Lord Abbett, John was responsible for establishing the firm’s ESG strategy, authoring the RI policy, training investment professionals and client-facing teams on ESG issues, and developing and fundraising for new products such as the Climate Focused Bond Fund. In addition to this experience, John has worked in roles across equity research and investment banking, covering renewable energy companies, utilities, and independent power producers.John is currently pursuing a Master’s of Science in Sustainability Management at Columbia University’s Climate School. He is also a Fellow at ClimateBase and holds a Bachelor’s in Finance from Rutgers University.

Tarek Hasan will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

Jean-Xavier has spent his entire career in the field of sustainable finance, starting as a Corporate Governance analyst at Mirova (Natixis AM). In 2014, he joined Natixis CIB as a sell-side SRI / ESG analyst in London. Most recently, he was an ESG analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, where he oversaw environmental and climate related research. Since Feb 2020, Jean-Xavier serves as Co-Head of ESG & Sustainability Research within J.P. Morgan EMEA Equity Research team. He was ranked #2 among “All Investment Individuals – SRI & Sustainability” in Extel 2019.  Since 2019, he is also a visiting professor of Sustainable Finance at HEC Paris.

Maya Hennerkes leads the ESG work of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with financial institutions and private equity funds. She promotes the integration of environmental and social risks and opportunities including climate risks in investment decisions and investment management. Maya designs and supervises environmental and social risk management and safeguard frameworks for a portfolio of over EUR 4bn new approvals per year. She also runs EBRD’s ESG training programme for financial institutions and private equity funds. Maya is a sustainable finance expert with over 15 years of experience, with previous positions at the Inter-American Development Bank Group in Washington DC and Bloomberg L.P. in London. She is a member of the Club of Rome’s Think Tank 30 and serves on the Advisory Board of SustainableFinance.Live. Maya studied economics, political science and Latin America studies in Germany and Spain and holds an Executive Masters in Public Management from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

Graham is Nationwide’s Director of Strategy & Sustainability, where he leads the Society’s climate change, sustainability, strategy development, long-term insight, performance management and corporate finance teams. The sustainability team leads the development of net-zero plans, science-based targets, climate opportunities, climate-related stress testing and disclosure. Graham has considerable strategic thinking and sustainability-related expertise and as a seasoned external voice of Nationwide, Graham is used to representing the views of the organisation, and the sector, as well as providing constructive challenge.

 Maria heads the ESG Advisory team Sustainable Finance at Standard Chartered Bank, supporting clients across the spectrum of their ESG and Sustainability requirements. Maria joined from Invesco Global Asset Management where she headed the ESG Client strategies in EMEA leading the growth of sustainability investment solutions and the set-up of the global asset manager’s climate strategy. She developed her sustainability career with CDP as global head of their investor members. Prior to that, Maria spent more than 25 years in investment banking as Managing Director, heading emerging market equities sales at UniCredit, and held previous roles at Lazard, UBS and Sberbank.
Authors of ESG thought leadership whitepapers, mentor, and contributor to industry initiatives in sustainable financing. Maria holds a CFA ESG, a diploma at Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership Institute, along with a CEMS Master and a bachelor’s degree in financial intermediaries at Bocconi University.

Anita McBain will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

Markus Müller is Global Head of the Chief Investment Office of the Private Bank, Deutsche Bank AG. In June 2022 he took over the role of Chief Investment Officer ESG in addition to his current function.
Markus is a member of Deutsche Banks Group Sustainability Council.Markus began his career at Deutsche Bank in DB Research as executive assistant to the chief economist. During his studies at Muenster University in Germany, he acquired broad international experience with focus on China, later working as an Economist at Allianz Life Insurance in Shanghai. Markus has held teaching posts in corporate finance and economics, being a visiting scholar at the Frankfurt School of Finance and the University of Bayreuth as well as at the Banking and Finance Academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. In April 2017 Markus Müller was asked by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment to join the advisory board of the “Carbon Bubble” project, which assessed and evaluated the risks of the transition towards a low-carbon economy for the German financial system.In January 2019 Markus Müller published his first book under the title „Neo-Ordoliberalismus – Zukunftsmodell für die Soziale Marktwirtschaft“ at Springer-Gabler. His recent book he published in May 2021 under the title “Deutschland und China zwischen Kooperation und Konkurrenz”.

Javier Munoz will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

Varun Sarda will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

Evgeny Tyurin is Head of ESG Finance and Corporate Bank Financial Planning & Analysis at Deutsche Bank. In this role he is responsible for sustainable finance reporting implementation across DB in view of upcoming regulatory requirements and on the back of DB’s own ESG volume targets. In addition to that, he manages the end-to-end financial planning process within Corporate Bank and oversees the delivery of its financial targets throughout the year. Evgeny joined Deutsche Bank in 2011 and worked in a variety of functions including Treasury and CFO office since then.

Jean-François Veron will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

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