ESG Europe 2023

 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.

With a background in political science, economics and international affairs, Celia joined the banking industry almost 10 years ago. She joined the French Group Crédit Agricole back in 2015 and, after holding several roles within compliance at CACIB, became Head of ESG Compliance in 2022. Her mission is to ensure that the Bank is compliant with the many European and international regulations on sustainable finance, addressing the ESG non-compliance risks through the implementation of supervision controls and effective advisory to the businesses. In order to address the ESG issues, the bank has launched a transversal ESG program, sponsored by the Top Management, that she is co-managing along with the sustainable banking business.

Gustavo Heads NatWest’s Debt and ESG Advisory Businesses globally and has more than 22 years of experience advising global clients across various industry sectors on debt structuring, event financing and credit ratings.

For the past 5 years, he has advised clients on ESG issues including structuring sustainable financing, investor communications and ESG ratings. He has advised on over 300 mandates during his career, across multiple sectors across the Americas and in Western, Eastern Europe and Middle East. He is a regular contributor to forums and publications on his areas of expertise.

Gustavo has recently acted as ESG Advisor to global issuers in the Real Estate, Media, Transportation, Infrastructure and Telecommunications sectors. He has recently acted as rating/ financing advisor for major transactions and events in the following sectors Chemicals, Ports, Utilities, Energy from Waste and Telecommunications.

Prior to NatWest, he held the position of Director Debt Advisory at ABN AMRO and before that, Associate of Strategy Consulting within the Mitchell Madison Group.

Gustavo holds a BA in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

Maureen Bray leads the Climate Strategy Consulting Practice for 3Degrees in Europe, where she supports clients across various sectors, including Financial Services, to take urgent action on climate change.

She has extensive experience in carbon, energy and climate management, designing and deploying corporate sustainability programmes throughout the value chain. Maureen uses her valuable insights on stakeholder engagement, corporate strategy and governance, data management, software and technology to support the optimisation of scope 3 consulting solutions for clients.

Dan supports NatWest Markets clients with the structuring and execution of sustainable finance transactions, developing sustainable finance frameworks and strategies, and engaging with investors and other relevant stakeholders on ESG topics.
Dan was previously a Responsible Investment Specialist at HSBC Asset Management in London, where he developed sustainable investment portfolios and frameworks for evaluating ESG and impact data across asset classes and geographies. Before that, Dan was at Deloitte in the Sustainability Services team where he worked with corporate and financial services clients to enhance their sustainability strategies and disclosures.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Marketing from New York University and a Master of Science in Applied Social Research from Hunter College in New York in 2013.
Dan joined the bank in July 2021

Nick Burniston will be speaking at our upcoming ESG 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.

Phil is co-chair of the CFRF (FCA) project to develop best practice in scenario modelling for asset managers. He devised and led the climate transition plan for M&G Investments including: joining NZAMi as a founder member (Dec 2020); portfolio emissions reduction targets; setting the Thermal coal transition plan; Portfolio manager Toolsets supporting the Net Zero Investment framework; the climate risk scenario modelling; the CBES stress test as an SME; and evidencing the plan in the latest M&G Plc sustainability report.

Edua Dickerson is the Vice President of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and Finance Strategy at ServiceNow. In her role, she is responsible for developing, activating, and overseeing the integrated ESG strategy and initiatives. She also creates and manages key activities to enable the Finance organization to operate effectively at scale.
Entrusted with operationalizing ESG across ServiceNow, Edua leads the team as they incorporate ESG strategy across the internal enterprise, including governing policies, processes, and controls. Edua’s team also serves as customer zero for all relevant ESG-related solutions while delivering thought leadership expertise and developing strategic partnerships with product development, go-to-market stakeholders, and partners.

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.

Marie d’Argentré | head of ESG Data & Digital for BNPP CIB
Marie d’Argentré is head of ESG Data & Digital for BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking. She leads the ESG Data strategy of CIB, ensuring relevant data acquisition, in particular on trends and topics where data offer is still less mature. She also ensures that data collected internally allows consistent ESG reporting, and fosters the development relevant ESG digital tools. Finally she aims at accelerating the use of data across Business Lines to accelerate client engagement on ESG and to fasten the positive banking transformation. She joined BNP Paribas in 2016 as Senior Manager at CIB Consulting & Transformation, leading several projects in the framework of CIB’s Sustainable Finance program to promote the positive role of finance and investment. Prior to joining BNP Paribas, she worked at Bain & Company strategy consulting firm, where she accompanied corporates on strategic planning, commercial and marketing strategy and process redesign.

​​​Kyra works as a climate change specialist consultant and is part of MSCI’s climate risk center (CRC). In her role, she works with financial sector and corporate clients on climate risk and opportunity analysis to inform the development and implementation of climate strategies. She assists financial institutions with the integration of climate data and models into investment processes, the implementation of the TCFD recommendations and TCFD-aligned reporting as well with the development of portfolio decarbonization strategies and the implementation of net zero targets.
​Prior to joining MSCI, Kyra worked at UBS, including the UBS Asset Management’s Sustainable and Impact Investing team, the UBS Optimus Foundation’s Social Finance team and UBS Wealth Management’s finance division. She also worked for the 2 Degrees Investing Initiative, a global think tank providing research and tools to align the financial markets and regulation with the Paris Agreement goals. As part of her work, she co-published research on the impact of a green supporting factor on European banks and lending in the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance.
​Kyra holds a BA in International Studies from Leiden University (The Hague, NL) and a MA in International Energy from Sciences Po (Paris, FR).​​

Mr. Anthony Fossati is Vice President, Global Head of ESG Sales at FactSet. In this role he offers ESG expertise and solutions to asset managers, asset owners, quantitative managers, and risk and compliance teams who are looking to integrate sustainability goals into their investment workflow. Prior to this, he was Head of Customer Acquisition at Truvalue Labs, where he helped develop the world’s first AI-driven, ESG dataset. Mr. Fossati earned a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University.

Rebecca heads up Supply Chain Sustainability at Schroders. She has been working in the Supply Management and Procurement fields for the last two decades but only entered the world of Supply Chain Sustainability in 2021. Passionate about the environment, she lept at the chance to design Schroders’ Supply Chain Sustainability Strategy which is currently one year into a five year plan. Schroders is one of the founder members of the Net Zero Asset Management Initiative (NZAM) and is committed to leading by example in our industry and across our entire business.

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.

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.

Ewa Jackson is Head of Sustainable Client Solutions, EMEA. She is responsible for sustainable business development, in partnership with client businesses, product, marketing and investment teams and represents the firm in a number of industry committees. As a founding member of the Sustainable & Transition Solutions team, Ewa has previously led firmwide sustainable investment initiatives including sustainable product development and sustainable investing frameworks.
Ewa previously held a number of senior roles in M&A and Strategy at Deutsche Bank and RBS. Ewa is an active advocate of diversity, co-chair of BlackRock’s Women’s Initiative in EMEA and former advisor to the Board of Echo Charity which provides day services to people with a disability. Ms Jackson earned a Master of Laws, with honours, from the University of Aix-Marseille III.

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

Myles, as Group Head of Sustainability at Close Brothers, drives the development of the sustainability agenda within the bank, integrating sustainability into the corporate culture, and embedding the consideration of sustainability in strategic, business and operational decision making.

Prior to this role, Myles joined the Carbon Trust at its inception, spending 20 years developing its programmes across sustainability, carbon management and emerging low carbon technology investments. During this period, the organisation established itself as an independent, expert partner of leading organisations around the world, helping them contribute to and benefit from a more sustainable future through carbon reduction, resource efficiency strategies and commercialising low carbon technologies.

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

Nosa Omoigui is the CEO and Founder of Weave.AI. Prior to Weave.AI, he led machine learning and personalization teams at Amazon. Nosa also held a senior role at Microsoft Research (MSR). Nosa has a total of 23 granted patents and over 50 pending patents on various areas of technology, including AI.

Christopher Rich will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG Europe Summit

Simone Ruiz-Vergote is Executive Director, ESG & Climate Policy for MSCI ESG Research. She leads MSCI’s engagement on ESG and climate-related regulatory initiatives, globally.
Her team is responsible for MSCI’s thought leadership in this space and methodology development enabling MSCI clients to respond to regulations on sustainable finance. Simone is a member of the Consultative Working Group to ESMA’s newly created Sustainability Standing Committee. She has over 15 years of experience working on sustainable finance and climate-related financial risks, both for the public and the private sector.
Simone has recently completed an executive MBA from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and holds degrees in Economics (Lic.Oec.) from HEC Lausanne and European & International Politics (M.Sc.) from Edinburgh University. She is a certified Financial Risk Manager.

Varun leads the ESG Advisory team in the Corporates & Institutions franchise at Lloyds Banking Group. He has over 15 years’ experience across roles in ESG ratings, sustainability and climate change consulting, in-house sustainability governance and implementation and the NGO sector.
Prior to joining Lloyds, Varun helped set up and led NatWest’s ESG Advisory business. Before that Varun led NatWest Group’s foray into integrated reporting and engagement with institutional investors on sustainability. He also led the Group’s approach and response to various ESG ratings, benchmarks and performance measurement.
Varun has also previously worked in environment and social risk management covering sectors such as Oil & Gas and Power Generation, and he worked at two leading ESG ratings agencies (Innovest Strategic Value Advisors and EIRIS), both of which are now majority owned by MSCI and Moody’s respectively.
Varun is a regular public speaker on sustainability in finance, and ESG stewardship. He has a Masters from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a Bachelors degree from Imperial College London.

Alexandre Tisset will be speaking at CeFPro’s ESG 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.

Marije Wiersma is a Manager at Zanders in the field of financial risk management. She began her career at Zanders as an intern and has since worked on a range of advisory projects for banks, including risk appetite, stress testing, risk identification, model implementation, and model validation. For the past two years, Marije has focused on ESG and climate risk for financial institutions, providing support to banks on ESG risk identification & materiality assessments, climate scenarios for stress testing, and climate modelling. Marije is dedicated to working with clients to develop sustainable and resilient risk management strategies in response to emerging ESG and climate risks.

Jean-François is heading the Credit and ESG Rating Advisory practice in Paris.
He was previously a senior rating analyst at S&P, based successively in London, Paris and Madrid.
Prior to this, he worked as a consultant at Accenture and a project manager at Alstom and Schlumberger.
Jean-Francois holds an engineering degree of Sup’Aéro, an MBA of ESSEC and a post-graduate at ENA.

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SESAMm will be sponsoring CeFPro’s ESG 2023 Summit

Weave.AI helps asset managers implement robust, proactive, transparent, and scalable ESG stewardship programs to increase shareholder value and to attract more investors. Weave.AI does this by applying AI and analytics to monitor, sift, and benchmark mountains of market data, portfolio data and non-traditional ‘alternative’ data, providing asset managers with new and deeper insights into specific companies, entire industries, sectors, portfolios, or supply-chains—at lightning speed and unlimited scale—thereby enabling greater stewardship, while lowering regulatory risk. Weave.AI also provides breakthrough technology to mitigate greenwashing, and to facilitate deeper and richer engagement with companies, regulators, asset owners, intermediaries, and other stakeholders.