DEVELOPING ESG BEST PRACTICE AND METHODOLOGY TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE RISK
ESG EUROPE
27-28 April, 2022 | London

ESG REGULATION
Managing uncertainty on future of ESG regulation and understanding what compliance might look like
STRESS TESTING
Developing best practices to effectively carry out climate stress testing
GREENWASHING
Ensuring best practice to mitigate the risk of greenwashing
CLIMATE RISK
Quantifying the impacts of climate risk on financial institutions and building capabilities internally
BIODIVERSITY
Managing complexity of biodiversity risks, considerations and reporting impacts
DATA
Data availability, quality and coverage limitations
DISCLOSURE
Managing best practice in disclosure requirements
TAXONOMY
Creating a unified taxonomy and definition of all elements for industry standardization


Jean-Xavier Hecker
Co-Head of ESG & Sustainability Research
J.P. Morgan

Maria Lombardo
Head of ESG Advisory Sustainable Finance
Standard Chartered Bank

Tarek Hasan
Director, ESG, Global Corporate and Investment Banking EMEA
MUFG

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
Chief Risk Officer
Gulf International Bank

Simon Gadd
Group Climate Change Director
Legal & General

Benjamin Westwood
Senior Manager, Stress Testing Strategy Division
Bank of England

Evgeny Tyurin
Head of ESG Finance
Deutsche Bank AG

Sanghamitra Karra
Managing Director, EMEA Head of Multicultural Client Strategy
Morgan Stanley

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8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
ESG REGULATION
Session details
- Evolution of scenario analysis as market conditions change
- SFDR (sustainable finance disclosure regulation) classification of products
- Communicating characteristics and sustainability risks to investment decision making
- Developing taxonomy beyond climate
- Gaining clarity around disclosure requirements for types of indicators
- Reporting disclosures against prescribed ESG metrics
- Managing the myriad of legislation for global financial institutions
- Understanding the impact of Article 8 and Article 9 on companies
- Ensuring consistency in message from regulators
- Avoiding competing priorities for global institutions
Jean-Xavier Hecker, Co-Head of ESG & Sustainability Research, J.P. Morgan
STRESS TESTING
Session details
- Fulfilling regulatory CBES (climate biennial exploratory scenario) stress testing requirements
- Quantifying financial impact as hypothetical scenarios on 30 year fixed basis
- Building out modelling and data requirements
- Reviewing potential impairment losses when financing customers
- Model and data limitation forecasting 30 year horizons
- Modeling physical and transitional risks
- Procedural challenges running processes
- Analytical challenge of ensuring comparability and consistency
Benjamin Westwood, Senior Manager, Stress Testing Strategy Division, Bank of England
10:25 Morning refreshment break and networking
CLIMATE RISK – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Reviewing the loss potential for vulnerabilities to climate risks
- Modeling climate risk and understanding physical and transition risks
- How climate risks look to shape the future of financial services
- Measuring footprint, risk and impacts to take action
- Leveraging information to make investment decisions
- Reviewing how financial institutions can contribute to the fight against climate change
- Developing long term resilience to severe weather and extreme events
- Determining appetite for climate risk
Nigel Milbank, Climate Programme – Senior Manager, Natwest
Simon Gadd, Group Climate Change Director, Legal & General
CLIMATE RISK REGULATION
Session details
- Quantifying physical and transition risk impacts
- SS319 requirements for climate financial risk management
- Implementing engagement from the board
- Developing governance and embedding practices
- Embedding climate risk as part of enterprise risk management framework
- PRA CEO letter requirements to fully embed climate financial risk management
- Understanding potential losses associated with climate impacts
12:20 Lunch refreshment break and networking
GREENWASHING
Session details
- Requirement across jurisdictions
- Managing reputation risks of perception of greenwashing
- Aligning standards of labelling to align across products
- Avoiding and mitigating the risk of greenwashing
- Collect reliable data for science companies
- Verifying data submitted for validation
- Defining terminology of what ‘green’ means
- Identifying treatment for investments and labelling
- Validating data to avoid risk of greenwashing
Tarek Hasan, Director, ESG, Global Corporate and Investment Banking EMEA, MUFG
GREENWASHING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Requirement across jurisdictions
- Managing reputation risks of perception of greenwashing
- Aligning standards of labelling to align across products
- Avoiding and mitigating the risk of greenwashing
- Collect reliable data for science companies
- Verifying data submitted for validation
- Defining terminology of what ‘green’ means
- Identifying treatment for investments and labelling
- Validating data to avoid risk of greenwashing
Maria Lombardo, Head of ESG Advisory Sustainable Finance, Standard Chartered Bank
Tarek Hasan, Director, ESG, Global Corporate and Investment Banking EMEA, MUFG
BIODIVERSITY
Session details
- Measuring impact of climate risk of biodiversity
- Developing measurement techniques for portfolios and investment products
- Opportunities for solutions to biodiversity challenges using technology
- Central banks review of biodiversity as a systemic risk
- Task Force for Nature Related Financial Disclosures view of financial risk
- Disclosures based on transition and physical risks
- Incorporating nature degradation and biodiversity loss
- Alignment of investors with biodiversity targets
3:30 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
DISCLOSURES
Session details
- Using relevant data to manage accurate disclosures
- Using disclosures to accurately inform investment decisions
- Aligning and disclosing based on transitional and physical risks linked to nature degradation and biodiversity loss
- Developing detailed disclosures on the key performance metrics
- Disclosure requirements for the classification of funds or sustainable investments
- Managing the impact the Sustainable Finance Action Plan will have on reporting disclosures
- Understanding how disclosure requirements will help support transparency
- Reviewing scenarios for TCFD implementation and developments
- Managing requirements across different jurisdictions and taxonomies
- Managing GHG emission reporting in its infancy
- The difficulty of reporting from scope one to scope three
- Reviewing a proposal for global regulation of sustainability reporting from ISSB
- How far will ISSB take over EU taxonomy
Senior Management, Bank of China
TAXONOMY
Session details
- Developing a standardized description of ESG
- Consistency to explain to customers
- Comparing funds and products
- Incorporating taxonomy beyond and climate risks
- Incorporating sustainability into taxonomy and understanding
- Sharing taxonomies across jurisdictions
- Getting accurate data across supply chains
- Developing standardized data frameworks
- Aligning sustainable objectives and disclosure requirements more to disclosures
- Categorizing and defining products across the industry
- Managing competing reporting standards
Peter Munro, Head of Investor Relations, European Investment Bank (EIB)
5:20 Chair’s closing remarks
5:30 End of Day One and networking drinks reception

8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
ESG RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Portfolio analysis to measure risk
- Testing models with limited data capabilities
- Using stress testing and portfolio analysis as a tool for decision making
- Model challenges with assumptions and judgements overlayed
- Enhancing scenario analysis capabilities for decision making
- Reviewing technology opportunities
- Supporting infrastructure build out development
Maya Hennerkes, ESG Sector Lead, Financial Intermediaries, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Andrew Newton, Executive Director, Risk Management Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (tbc)
DATA PROVIDERS
Session details
- Determining underlying accuracy of third party data for investment decisioning
- Standardization of ESG providers methodologies and scrutiny
- Managing geolocation risk of data providers
- Increased regulatory scrutiny on ESG data providers
- Competition between data providers
- Incorporating ESMA’s regulation on better aligning data providers
- Integration of data providers into your risk management process, metrics, net zero commitments etc.
- Variance in ratings approaches
10:20 Morning refreshment break and networking
RATINGS
Session details
- Broad spectrum of variability with ESG
- Qualitative assessment changes to traditional credit ratings
- Varying methodologies in rating agencies
- Regulation of ESG data providers and ratings agencies
- Aligning methodologies
BUSINESS STRATEGY
Session details
- Rationalizing business decisions with monetary impact now with long term sustainability goals
- Planning strategy accounting for changes brought on with ESG agendas
- Understanding the needs of the customer to update products
- Managing competing priorities across E, S and G
- Incorporating forward looking opportunities for regulation and ESG concepts
- Leveraging stress testing and scenario analysis as a toll beyond compliance
Evgeny Tyurin, Head of ESG Finance, Deutsche Bank AG
12:20 Lunch break and networking
DATA – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Managing dependence on data for disclosures
- Developing consistency in calculations for metrics
- Consistency and availability of data to feed calculations
- Reliance on external data to report on
- Monitoring data across industries for a single view
- Narrowing scope to then review individual organizations
- Developing sector proxies to enhance understanding
- Bringing the right data into one consistency space
- Aligning methodologies for transformation of data
- Coordinating efforts across the industry
- Leveraging external third party data to run models and estimate losses
- Ensuring accessibility and comparability of data across organizations
- Determining underlying accuracy of third party data for investment decisioning
- Standardization of ESG providers methodologies and scrutiny
- Forward looking data
- View of latent risks materializing in the future for physical and transition risks
- Incorporating into long term strategy
- Leveraging across supply chains for diversification
- Leveraging data in risk management processes and metrics
Maciej Lewandowski, Head of Risk Poland, NatWest Group
Jakub Piorkowski, Climate Change Net Zero Lead, Credit Suisse
NET ZERO TARGETS AND TRANSITION PLANS
Session details
- Verifying and validating targets
- Compliance with net zero without greenwashing
- Understanding transition risks moving towards net zero
- Social considerations and impact to consumers
- Reviewing outcome of COP26
- Defining roles and responsibilities across organizations
- Requirements for net zero aligned funds
Sanghamitra Karra, Managing Director, EMEA Head of Multicultural Client Strategy, Morgan Stanley
2:50 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
ALIGNING SOCIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Session details
- Understanding social repercussions of decisions
- Exit strategies for certain sectors
- Impact to employment
- Global repercussions with certain industries
- Developing medium and long term strategies and considering alignment of environment and social impacts
- Social risks of the climate transition
- Ensuring equal opportunities with change
- Identifying investor priorities and gathering data
- Impact of Covid-19 on organizations and employees
Sophie Dupre-Echeverria, Chief Risk Officer, Gulf International Bank
STAKEHOLDERS AND BOARD ENGAGEMENT
Session details
- Demonstrating compliance to stakeholders
- Measuring and understanding exposure
- Engaging stakeholders with an open dialogue
- Ensuring visibility to the board and management
- Incorporating ESG committee within the board
- Business, risk, compliance and audit view
- Introduction of chief sustainability officers
- Program management and accountability at c-suite level
- What should an ESG function look like?
- Aligning strategy and business model with global climate risk targets
Floske Kusse, Stakeholder Engagement Lead, ING
4:40 Chair’s closing remarks
4:50 End of Summit


Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
Chief Risk Officer
Gulf International Bank
Sophie is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for driving an effective risk culture throughout the company, designing the risk and compliance frameworks and overseeing risk management and regulatory compliance practices. Sophie joined GIB UK with extensive experience in the field, having previously served as Executive Director for Compliance and Operational Risk Control at UBS Asset Management. Before this, she was Global Head of Operational Risk at Barings, and non-Executive Director of the Baring-Coller Secondaries Fund. Sophie was also an Operational Risk Manager and the Group Head of Investment Risk Framework at Schroders.
Sophie graduated from Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance. She is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Simon Gadd
Group Climate Change Director
Legal & General
As Group Climate Change Director Simon chairs the Group Environment Committee, which oversees and coordinates all the environment related activity across the group, including both managing the risks form climate change and exploring the opportunities created by the transition of the global economy to net zero.
Simon was Group CRO from 2013 to 2021 during which he headed risk oversight for all risk types within the L&G risk framework, including prudential, operational and conduct risks, across both UK and overseas operations. He is a qualified actuary and has a mathematics degree from Oxford University.

Tarek Hasan
Director, ESG, Global Corporate and Investment Banking EMEA
MUFG
Tarek is speaking at ESG Europe 2022.

Jean-Xavier Hecker
Co-Head of ESG & Sustainability Research
J.P. Morgan
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
ESG Sector Lead, Financial Intermediaries
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
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.

Sanghamitra Karra
Managing Director, EMEA Head of Multicultural Client Strategy
Morgan Stanley

Floske Kusse
Stakeholder Engagement Lead
ING
Floske is speaking at ESG Europe 2022.

Maciej Lewandowski
Head of Poland Risk
NatWest Group
Maciej is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income, combined with experience of regulatory topics and passion for tackling the climate transformation.
He joined NatWest Markets in June 2020 where he’s primarily responsible for setting up and managing risk hub to support investment banking of NatWest Group.
Before (since June 2014) he worked in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision one of the largest banks in the Netherlands. As JST Coordinator, he led risk identification and implementation of risk-based and forward-looking Supervisory Examination Program. He took part in the start-up phase that included recruitment as well as fine-tuning of tools and processes.
Prior to the ECB, Maciej worked in various roles in a number of banks: PKO Bank Polski 2008-2014 (Head of Credit Risk Assessment Department, member of Bank’s Credit Committee, Advisor to CEO), HSBC 2008 (Head of Structured Finance) and Citi in Poland and Hungary 1996-2008 (Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives Sales, Financial Control).
Maciej has graduated from Warsaw School of Economics and holds a Master Degree in Banking and Finance. He is a speaker and panelist at conferences on risk and regulatory outlook topics.

Maria Lombardo
Head of ESG Advisory Sustainable Finance
Standard Chartered Bank
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.

Nigel Milbank
Climate Programme – Senior Manager
NatWest
Nigel Milbank is a Cambridge University graduate and Chartered Accountant having trained with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Nigel has held audit positions in Schroders and Credit Suisse as an Audit Director, following which he helped set up the Operational risk function and Product Control global assurance at Credit Suisse.
Nigel was Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk at Santander UK from 2006 to 2011 and joined RBS in 2012 to run the Group ICAAP function. He has held various stress testing delivery and improvement roles at RBS/ Natwest Group and since 2020 has been Programme Manager on the Climate Programme building climate stress capability and embedding climate financial risk management.

Peter Munro
Head of Investor Relations
European Investment Bank (EIB)
Peter is speaking at ESG Europe 2022.

Andrew Newton
Executive Director, Risk Management Department
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (tbc)
Andrew is speaking at ESG Europe 2022.

Jakub Piorkowski
Climate Change Net Zero Lead
Credit Suisse
Jakub is speaking at ESG Europe 2022.

Evgeny Tyurin
Head of ESG Finance
Deutsche Bank AG
Evgeny Tyurin is Head of Corporate Bank Financial Planning & Analysis and ESG Finance 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.

Benjamin Westwood
Senior Manager, Stress Testing Strategy Division
Bank of England
I joined the Bank of England in 2004 having completed an MSc. in Economics. Since then, I have worked in a variety of areas within the Bank, largely with a macroeconomic focus. I joined the Bank’s Stress Testing Strategy Division in 2015 and have been responsible for several of the Bank’s stress test publications. I led the design and running of the Bank’s 2019 Liquidity focussed exploratory scenario exercise and I am currently managing the production of the 2021 climate-risk focussed stress exercise.
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