Richard is the Director of Strategy Division at the FCA. Richard has over 15 years’ experience in Financial Regulation, including roles in Supervision, Policy,  Enforcement and as Private Secretary to former FSA Chairman, Lord Turner. Richard is responsible for setting the FCA Strategy, embedding the Mission and for delivering cross-cutting strategic policy, such as Climate Change and Intergenerational issues. The Strategy Division analyses sectors, agree sector-specific and cross-sector strategies, and lead the annual strategic planning round.

Mr. Tajinder Singh is currently Deputy Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). He was previously Head of International Affairs & Human Resource Development and Advisor to the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

Mr. Singh comes from the Indian Administrative Service and has held various positions in the Ministry of Finance in the Government of India, as well as handling a number of assignments for the government in the financial and other sectors. He has over 25 years of experience at senior leadership positions in different organizations dealing with strategic issues in regulation, finance and administration, and significant domestic and international experience dealing with Government and regulators.

Mr. Singh holds a Masters Degree in Systems Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and graduated in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.

Mark Babington is the Acting Executive Director of Regulatory Standards at the Financial Reporting Council. He leads the division responsible for the FRC technical and public policy work covering audit, corporate reporting, corporate governance and stewardship, actuarial and the FRC Lab. The division also includes the all FRC’s Investor and Stakeholder Engagement work. Prior to joining ExCo, Mark led the FRC’s UK Audit Policy programme, measures to support greater competition in the UK audit market and work to support the reform of international standard setting for auditors, by global regulatory authorities.  
 
Prior to joining the FRC, Mark had a twenty-year career in audit and was a Director at the UK National Audit Office. Prior to that he was a technical advisor to a number of EU capacity-building programmes. He was also involved in the audit of the United Nations.  
 
For five years, Mark was a member of the UK government’s counter-fraud taskforce. He is a former Chairman of the International Colleges of Auditors of a number of European defence-related organisations. Mark is an Independent Governor, Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, which is the UK public body dedicated to supporting democracy around the world.

Alessandro d’Eri joined ESMA as senior policy officer in the Investors and Issuers Department in 2016. In this capacity, he is responsible for ESMA’s working groups focusing on supervisory convergence respectively for financial and non-financial reporting. Since 2020 he is also co-responsible for the coordination across ESMA of the sustainable finance workstream. Prior to joining ESMA, Alessandro worked in the accounting policy department of a multinational insurance company. Before then, he served as research assistant at the University of Roma Tre and as technical staff at the International Accounting Standards Board. Alessandro holds a PhD in business studies and he is a certified auditor.

Mario Abela is a Director, Redefining Value at WBCSD where he leads projects aimed at transforming performance management, governance and assurance to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream business and investor decision-making. Mario is a CPA and Chartered Management Accountant, his expertise are in corporate reporting and he has held senior management positions in both the private and public sectors in Australia, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the US. He has extensive regulatory and standard setting experience. Mario is a visiting professor at IESEG School of Management in Paris where he teaches in the Masters in Accounting, Audit and Control program.

Farnam is HSBC’s EMEA Head of Sustainable Bonds, where she advises HSBC’s debt capital market clients across all sectors on sustainable finance.  She also sits on HSBC’s Green Bond and Loan Committee. Farnam joined HSBC in 2017 after completing her MBA at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. Prior to that, she was with leading ESG ratings firm Sustainalytics, where she developed its second opinion services for green/social/sustainability bonds, consulted on framework development for corporate and public sector issuers, and designed the firm’s product offerings for the assessment of human rights risks. She has over nine years of experience working with investors, issuers, and other stakeholders on the integration of environmental and social factors into investment decisions, including the development of investment strategies for some of the world’s largest asset owners.

José Luis joined ACCIONA at the beginning of 2019 as Global Director of Sustainability. In addition, he is a member and one of the four rapporteurs - of the Group of Experts in Sustainable Finance of the European Commission.
Previously, during his extensive career he has held positions of responsibility in different companies. The most recent at KPMG where he joined in 2003 to lead the sustainability department in Spain and where he was responsible for the Government, Risks and Compliance departments, until he was elected Global Head of this discipline. Previously, he was Director in the Central Department of the Red Cross, Internal Auditor of the National Westminster Bank and Director in the NatWest Spain, Teneo and Environment Foundations.
José Luis has a degree in Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid and an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid and has more than 20 years of experience in management, development, and independent review of business responsibilities.
José Luis combines his professional work, teaching in different universities and business schools.

Shaun leads the EY Financial Services Climate Change and Sustainability Services team within UK and EMEIA. This team specializes in providing financial services clients with environmental, social and governmental support across key capabilities of strategy, governance, risk management and reporting.
Shaun has over 20 years of experience in helping financial services clients deliver complex change and transformation programs across multiple jurisdictions.

Tim is a Director and leads Anthesis' ESG practice. Tim has over 20 years of experience, starting with M&A transaction support. More recently Tim has helped his clients to respond to the ESG agenda, from due diligence to internal ESG policies and management systems and working with assets and portfolio companies. Tim's current focus is on developing new ways to monitor ESG performance and to enhance the assessment and mitigation of climate change risks, including in line with the TCFD. Tim currently sits on the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association’s (BVCA) Responsible Investment Advisory Group.

As Director of Capital Markets Engagement, Siobhan leads GRI’s work with the investment and capital markets’ communities. Prior to joining GRI, Siobhan was Head of Research at the World Federation of Exchanges where she led the WFE’s work in sustainability and emerging markets. In this role, she was responsible (amongst other activities) for promoting sustainability among the member exchanges and research on the role of stock exchanges in promoting sustainable development, in collaboration with UNCTAD. She was formerly the Director of Strategy and Public Policy for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and currently serves as a non-executive Director on the Board of the JSE. Siobhan has spoken in conferences around the world on the topics of sustainability and emerging market development.
Siobhan has an LLB and an MBA from the University of Cape Town, an MA in International Relations and Economics from the Johns Hopkins University SAIS and is currently completing an MSc in Climate Change from King’s College, London. She is a Yale World Fellow of 2011.

Stuart joined Cyan Finance in April 2020 with the specific role of developing the asset finance activity.  

Previously, Stuart spent over 10 years as Global Co-Head of the structured asset and leasing business in a major European bank and has over 25 years banking experience at US and European banks.  Stuart has an extensive knowledge of asset and infrastructure finance over a wide range of asset classes and transactions including leasing. 

Stuart is a Chartered Accountant and an associate member of the Institute of Taxation and Association of Corporate Treasurers.   

Dr. Robert G. Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Robert G. Eccles is a leading authority on corporate purpose and the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in resource allocation decisions by companies and investors. He is also the world's foremost academic expert on integrated reporting.

Currently Eccles is a Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Said Business School, University of Oxford where he is engaged in a number of research projects, including the "Enacting Purpose Initiative." Eccles has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and was a Berkeley Social Impact Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. He was a Professor at Harvard Business School and received tenure in 1989.

Eccles is a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group and the non-profit Impact Management Project. He is a Co-Chair to "COVID-19 & Inequality: A Test of Corporate Purpose" Initiative. He was the founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, and was one of the founders of the International Integrated Reporting Council. In 2011, Dr. Eccles was selected as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior – 2012 for his extensive, positive contribution to building trust in business. In 2013, he was named the first non-accountant Honorary Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), one of only nine since 1999. In 2018 he was named by Barron's as one of the top 20 influencers in ESG investing and cited for being an "ESG research trailblazer." Also, in 2018 he received "The CSR Lifetime Achievement Award" at
The 8th International Conference on Sustainability & Responsibility in Cologne, Germany.

Dr. Eccles received an S.B. in Mathematics and an S.B. in Humanities and Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. He currently resides in Lexington, MA with his wife Anne Laurin Eccles and their two dogs Basil and Rowan. They have four children (Charlotte, Philippa, Isabelle, and Gordon) and seven grandchildren (Scout, Russell, Thomas, Thora, Frederick, Dashiell, and Philip). His main outside activity is weight lifting where he is quite good at the dead lift, credible at the squat, and pathetic at the bench press.

Before joining RPMI Railpen to lead their active ownership work, Caroline led on institutional investment and stewardship at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA). Previously she held roles at PIMFA and as Head of Public Policy at the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), and has also previously undertaken fixed income research for a large asset management firm.

She is a pension trustee at one of the UK's largest master trusts, is Investment Week's "Investment Woman of the Year" (small and medium firms) and graduated top of her class from the London School of Economics.

Phil became Director of the Financial Reporting Lab in 2017. He is a Chartered Accountant in the UK with over 20 years of experience in accounting and audit, focusing on improving the quality of company reporting. He has worked for the Financial Reporting Council since 2009 and was previously the Head of Case Examination and Enquiries. Phil started his career in the audit practice of KPMG where he spent ten years, the latter half of which he worked as a senior manager in the firm’s professional practice department. After leaving practice, he spent five years as a training consultant helping companies with their corporate reporting requirements before joining the FRC. Phil is also a board member of xBRL International

Adrian Fleming is CEO and co-founder of Accuvio Sustainability Software. He combines this unique combination of interests with a passion for using Easy-to-Use technology to enable large organisations do more to improve their impact on the environment, the economy and society in general. Adrian's background prior to founding Accuvio was in technical architecture with Accenture, and Dell as a Software Development project manager. It was on this career journey that he encountered the challenge of Sustainability reporting across global organisations which lead to his light bulb moment that it needs to be made easier, for such accountability to be "main stream". He was also involved in the early days of CoderDojo.com, a volunteer-led worldwide charity that teaches children from ages 6 - 14 how to develop software and electronics.

Pauline Irwin is Project Lead on the IAASB's Extended External Reporting (EER) Assurance project - currently seconded from PwC's Assurance Risk and Quality team. She is a South African qualified Chartered Accountant who held senior management positions in industry in South Africa before moving to the UK, and returning to the profession in 1997. Pauline has a strong background in financial statement audits, and extensive experience in developing assurance methodologies and training on a wide range of non-financial reporting frameworks. Her focus is on the convergence of financial and sustainability reporting, with particular interest in the assurance of climate-related financial risks and impacts.

Reporting to the international business of Federated Hermes’ CEO, Leon is responsible for developing and directing the responsibility integration program across the group. This includes ensuring that investment teams are aware of and integrate ESG performance in investment decisions and that engagement is effectively incorporated alongside investment activities. In this role he also oversees and contributes to how the firm’s responsibility activities and performance are integrated into our client relationship management and reporting, the delivery of our corporate citizenship programme and the development of responsible structures and processes for the firm. He also leads a number of corporate and public policy engagements. Previously, Leon was responsible for the development and delivery of EOS at Federated Hermes’ global corporate and public policy engagement programme from 2012-2016 and acted as its commercial director from 2009-2012. Prior to that, Leon worked within the Hermes UK Large Cap Focus Fund for seven years, where he was responsible for executing the fund’s engagement programmes. He also has 12 years of strategy consulting and operational industry experience.

Justine has spent much of her career helping business leaders and governments find solutions to the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development. She has provided advisory services for a number of global institutions and governments across Europe, Africa, India, Indonesia and Latin America. Her areas of focus includes sustainable development in emerging economies, climate change mitigation/adaptation strategies, climate finance, economic valuation and market based instruments for managing natural resource assets.

She is currently the Deputy CEO & Director of Market Development at the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), an investor focused not for profit working to mobilize debt capital markets for climate change solutions. Her primary focus is in the emerging markets where she works closely with both public and private sector actors in developing national policy guidelines and investment roadmaps that will enable access to green bond financing. Currently, she leads CBI’s efforts in the Americas and Africa where market development programs are underway. 

Previously, she was heading the development of the International Climate Bonds Standard Program, where she worked closely with industry leaders and global experts in establishing a screening tool for investors to easily prioritise climate and green bonds with confidence. 

Justine has an MSc. in Molecular Science from Yale University and an MSc. in Environmental Economics and Policy from Imperial College, London.

Currently Chair of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue and a corporate reporting consultant.

Previously Vice Chair, International Accounting Standards Board; Chair, Financial Reporting Advisory Board, UK Treasury; Chair, UK Accounting Standards Board; roles with World Bank and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; and a partner at Coopers and Lybrand.

Chris Perceval is a sustainable development expert working at the intersections of climate change, natural capital, business and finance. He has been involved in several agenda-shaping initiatives at a global level – he was involved in the UN process to establish data and metrics for measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has supported development a mandatory carbon market for the global aviation industry, helped to establish the WBCSD-led Action 2020 platform, and played a central role in the design of the World Resources Institute’s Global Strategy. He has also worked on developing financing mechanisms to protect ecosystems and increase water security.

Chris has worked with senior leaders at Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, GE, Shell, IKEA and many others to develop ESG research that creates opportunities for strategic investment.

Prior to Trucost, Chris was an Industry Director at South Pole Group and for several years was Director of Corporate Relations at WRI. Chris holds an MSc from Oxford University’s Said Business School and BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University.

ShareAction is UK-based charity that has been working for 12 years to build the movement for responsible investment. Simon leads ShareAction's work with companies to drive responsible business practices, across a range of ESG campaign areas, including climate, food and health, and workforce. He is passionate about the power of good work to deliver positive social impact.

Prior to joining ShareAction in early 2020, Simon built and led the social responsibility function at McKinsey & Company, a global management consultancy. While at McKinsey, he also worked with social sector organisations, advising global foundations and non-profits on strategy, governance and external relations. Simon served for seven years as a diplomat for the British government, including an overseas posting to Pakistan and as a private secretary to the Minister for Europe. 

Alice joined bp in 2018 to lead their corporate reporting team - ensuring bp responds transparently to reporting requirements and best practice developments. She has over ten years' experience in responsible business, business ethics and ESG and sustainability issues in FTSE 100 companies, having worked at Lloyds Banking Group prior to bp. Alice has a BA hons in Marketing.

Mitch joined the international business of Federated Hermes in February 2010 as Head of Research on the Credit team before becoming Co-Head of Credit from 2012 to 2019. In 2019, in addition to his role of Head of Research, he became Head of Sustainable Fixed Income and co-manager of the Federated Hermes SDG Engagement High Yield Credit Fund. Prior to this he was Co-Head of Credit Research for the global credit team at Fortis Investments. Other roles at Fortis include portfolio manager of European high yield funds, based in London, and senior credit analyst, based in Paris. Before this he worked as an associate analyst in the leveraged finance group at Moody’s Investors Service in New York. Mitch earned a Master’s degree in International Affairs at Columbia University in New York City and a Bachelor’s degree in History at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges in California. He is a CFA charterholder; Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the IFRS Foundation; founding member of the Executive Committee for the European Leveraged Finance Association; member of the Sovereign Working Group and the Credit Rating Advisory Committee for the PRI; member of the technical Working Group (Communications and Technology) for the US-based Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB); a workstream member of the UK-China Green Finance Task Force; and sits on the Green Finance Advisory of the City of London.

Adrian is currently leading a programme to scale-up sustainable finance and ESG disclosure across London Stock Exchange Group’s Capital Markets business, which to date has established a Green Economy classification across its markets; an ESG Disclosure benchmarking tool for companies; and the publication of a guide to green finance, in addition to supporting the launch of a new Sustainable Bond Market.
  
Adrian established ABN AMRO’s Environmental Markets business in 2006 and later supported renewable energy and clean-tech clients as a Director in RBS’ corporate finance team. As CEO of international certification body the Gold Standard, Adrian oversaw the development of result-based finance tools that have enabled hundreds of clean technology and sustainable land-use projects to attract millions of dollars in investment, including via his involvement in creating Fairtrade International’s Fairtrade Climate Standard. 
  
Adrian is a Non-Executive Director of Evora, a leading sustainable real-estate advisor and software business. 

Keith Skeoch started his career in the UK Government Economic Service before moving into financial services with James Capel (HSBC Securities) where he became firstly Chief Economist and then Managing Director of International Equities. Keith joined Standard Life Investments (SLI) in 1999 as Chief Investment Officer and was appointed Chief Executive of that division in 2004 and to the main board of Standard Life plc following demutualisation in 2006. Keith led the exponential growth of SLI in terms of assets under management, geographic footprint, revenue stream, organisational capability and brand strength. He was appointed CEO of Standard Life plc in 2015 and sole CEO of Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) in 2019 having led the separation of the life business to Phoenix in 2018 and the subsequent formation of a global, focussed and capital light investment house. Keith Stepped down as CEO of SLA in September 2020. He is currently Chair of the ASI Research Institute, Chair of the Investment Association and a member of The UK Takeover Panel. Keith holds a degree from the University of Sussex, a MA from the University of Warwick and in recognition of his wider contribution to the financial services industry, and particularly his work in response to the GFC, he was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex and Teesside University. Keith is a Fellow of the Society of Business Economists and a Trustee of Edinburgh International Festival. Keith is married to Andrea with whom he has two sons and divides his time between London and Edinburgh.

Morgan Slebos is the Director of Sustainable Markets at the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment. He leads the PRI's sustainable financial system and driving meaningful data work areas. Morgan has extensive experience in the financial sector, including previous roles as policy manager for resource and environment issues at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and as an advisor at the Association of British Insurers.

Christine Sobieski is Head of ESG Engagement at Ørsted - a company that has transformed from a fossil-based energy company to a renewable energy company with a vision of a world that runs entirely on green energy. Today, Ørsted is ranked the most sustainable company in the world in Corporate Knights' Global 100 index, on the CDP A-list as a global leader on climate action, and corporate winner of Green Bond of the Year 2020. For the past 8 years, Christine has been part of the company’s transformational journey. Her responsibilities include managing the company's strategic ESG and sustainable finance agenda and engaging actively with investors, rating agencies, peers and other stakeholders. Christine is Ørsted's sustainability representative in the Corporate Forum on Sustainable Finance. Previously, she has project managed the company's annual sustainability report and materiality assessments, and has led a broad range of sustainability and stakeholder relations initiatives.

David started as Director, Corporate Governance the FRC in May 2014. He was previously a civil servant in BEIS for nearly 30 years and held a number of posts dealing with a range of business sectors and policy issues. From 2001 - 2011 David was Assistant Director in the Corporate Law and Governance Directorate with policy responsibility for directors’ remuneration, shareholders' rights and corporate governance, including European and international negotiations on these issues.

Kay is the Vice Chair of Financial Services at KPMG, leading C-suite engagement for FS clients and special projects including ESG, Libor and Responsible tax. Prior to joining KPMG, Kay served as Vice Chair of the European Parliament’s influential Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, shaping EU and global financial services legislation, including setting up the EU supervisory bodies (ESAs, SSM, SRM), capital markets union (EMIR, MiFID II, Prospectus, CCP Recovery & Resolution), and the broader banking union files. Prior to Kay’s career as an MEP, she worked in investment banking.

Alex Tamlyn has extensive experience in cross border corporate governance and directors' duties, together with UK and international securities offerings and securities regulation. He co-chairs DLA Piper's Boardroom Advisory Services (BAS) international practice which provides evidence-based support to the lifecycle of boardroom needs, with a focus on Sustainability and ESG. BAS promotes the quality and resilience of board decisions, helps manage legal & regulatory risk, enhance reputation and licence to operate, and drives sustainable value creation.

Alex led DLA Piper's work with Harvard Business School and Boston Consulting Group on the United Nations LEAD Board Program's "The Role of the Board" - a ground breaking long term value generation tool for directors of major businesses. Alex' boardroom practice began in the 90s with advice on iconic matters such as Mirror Group Newspapers plc and Robert Maxwell; reshaping the board of Burton Group plc and the removal of its CEO Sir Ralph Halpern, and the campaigning by Tiny Roland CEO of Lonrho against Mohammed Al Fayed and the Sultan of Brunei. Since then Alex has advised many FTSE 250 and large privately owned clients on optimal governance strategies and director conduct.

Alex also heads DLA Piper's EMEA Capital Markets Group and has over 30 years of experience advising clients on corporate finance, UK and international securities offerings, Class 1 acquisitions and disposals, and schemes of arrangement.

Dexter works as a Senior Investment Analyst at Tsao Family Office, a single family office based in Singapore that runs a multi-asset portfolio with a focus on ESG and impact investments. Dexter specializes in ESG due diligence and supports the team in investment due diligence. Prior to Tsao Family Office, Dexter was a Senior Officer at UOB Alternative Investment Management, where he was part of the investment team monitoring and evaluating private equity and hedge funds in Asia. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and certified Financial Risk Manager.

Swami Venkataraman is a Senior Vice President-Manager in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance group. He manages the development of ESG analytic tools, assessments, and the integration of ESG considerations into Moody’s credit ratings and research. He is the primary spokesperson for Moody’s in Americas for ESG and sustainable finance and chairs the ESG Americas working group. Before moving to the ESG team, Swami was a lead analyst in the North American utilities and infrastructure team since 2014.

Swami has broad expertise in credit and banking for the power, clean energy and infrastructure sectors over the past 20 years. He has worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Mumbai and Mexico City. Swami is a CFA charterholder, with a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an M.B.A. in finance from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta.