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Dr Richard Mattison is Chief Executive Officer of Trucost, part of S&P Global. Trucost assesses and prices risks relating to climate change, natural resource constraints and broader ESG factors, enabling companies and financial institutions to understand exposure to ESG factors, inform resilience and identify the transformative solutions of tomorrow.

Richard is an expert in sustainable finance and over the last 20 years he has advised various UN bodies, governments, financial intuitions, companies and NGOs on how to integrate climate change and natural capital analysis into their decision making. He has led numerous ground-breaking projects including creating the first portfolio carbon risk assessment for Henderson and the UK Environment Agency, launching the first carbon efficient index with S&P Dow Jones Indices, leading the first global assessment of corporate environmental externalities for the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, and developing the world’s first Environmental Profit and Loss account for PUMA.

Richard is a member of the EU Sustainable Finance High Level Expert Group, the Global Advisory Council of the Oxford Smith School Stranded Assets Programme and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association . Previously, Richard was a strategy consultant and began his career as a neuroscientist. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh and is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Roelfien Kuijpers is Global ESG Client Officer at DWS, as well as Head of the Global Client Group for Ireland, Scandinavia and the UK, and Interim CEO of the UK. She is co-chair of DWS’ recently-formed external ESG Advisory Board, and a member of the Group Sustainability Council and the DWS Investments UK Board. After working in NY for 34 years, Roelfien transitioned to London in 2019.

She previously held a variety of senior positions, including Head of Responsible Investments, Global Head of Strategic Relationships, Global Head of DB Advisors, and Global Head of Strategy, Marketing and Communications. She was a member of the Global Operating Committee (2004-2012) and the Group Executive Committee (2017-2018).

She worked in Deutsche Bank’s Global Equity division in several senior roles (1995-2004), and served on the Global Equities Executive Management Committee (2002-2004). She served as Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Asset Management Investmentgesellschaft Germany, and Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of DWS Investments France. She is a board member of the DB Americas Foundation and chairs its Investment Committee.

A strong supporter of diversity, Roelfien was chairwoman of WOWS for many years, and helped establish DB’s Women in European Business initiative, and the ATLAS program to develop senior female talent. She has served on the Americas diversity committee and sponsors the LGBTQQ network and the Black Leadership Alliance.

Roelfien is a board member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). She has served on the Women's Leadership Board at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the President’s Advisory Council at Oberlin College, the Young Associate Directors of the Metropolitan Opera, and the board of SculptureCenter NY.

In 2019, Roelfien was named one of the “25 Most Powerful Women in Finance” by American Banker magazine. In 2011, she received the One to World Fulbright Award for Global Business Leadership for building understanding and cooperation across cultures. A Dutch native, Roelfien received a Master’s in History from Leiden University, Netherlands.

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Dr Richard Mattison is Chief Executive Officer of Trucost, part of S&P Global. Trucost assesses and prices risks relating to climate change, natural resource constraints and broader ESG factors, enabling companies and financial institutions to understand exposure to ESG factors, inform resilience and identify the transformative solutions of tomorrow.

Richard is an expert in sustainable finance and over the last 20 years he has advised various UN bodies, governments, financial intuitions, companies and NGOs on how to integrate climate change and natural capital analysis into their decision making. He has led numerous ground-breaking projects including creating the first portfolio carbon risk assessment for Henderson and the UK Environment Agency, launching the first carbon efficient index with S&P Dow Jones Indices, leading the first global assessment of corporate environmental externalities for the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, and developing the world’s first Environmental Profit and Loss account for PUMA.

Richard is a member of the EU Sustainable Finance High Level Expert Group, the Global Advisory Council of the Oxford Smith School Stranded Assets Programme and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association . Previously, Richard was a strategy consultant and began his career as a neuroscientist. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Edinburgh and is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Roelfien Kuijpers is Global ESG Client Officer at DWS, as well as Head of the Global Client Group for Ireland, Scandinavia and the UK, and Interim CEO of the UK. She is co-chair of DWS’ recently-formed external ESG Advisory Board, and a member of the Group Sustainability Council and the DWS Investments UK Board. After working in NY for 34 years, Roelfien transitioned to London in 2019.

She previously held a variety of senior positions, including Head of Responsible Investments, Global Head of Strategic Relationships, Global Head of DB Advisors, and Global Head of Strategy, Marketing and Communications. She was a member of the Global Operating Committee (2004-2012) and the Group Executive Committee (2017-2018).

She worked in Deutsche Bank’s Global Equity division in several senior roles (1995-2004), and served on the Global Equities Executive Management Committee (2002-2004). She served as Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Asset Management Investmentgesellschaft Germany, and Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of DWS Investments France. She is a board member of the DB Americas Foundation and chairs its Investment Committee.

A strong supporter of diversity, Roelfien was chairwoman of WOWS for many years, and helped establish DB’s Women in European Business initiative, and the ATLAS program to develop senior female talent. She has served on the Americas diversity committee and sponsors the LGBTQQ network and the Black Leadership Alliance.

Roelfien is a board member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). She has served on the Women's Leadership Board at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the President’s Advisory Council at Oberlin College, the Young Associate Directors of the Metropolitan Opera, and the board of SculptureCenter NY.

In 2019, Roelfien was named one of the “25 Most Powerful Women in Finance” by American Banker magazine. In 2011, she received the One to World Fulbright Award for Global Business Leadership for building understanding and cooperation across cultures. A Dutch native, Roelfien received a Master’s in History from Leiden University, Netherlands.

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Lynn leads the business development and relationship management team in EMEA for S&P Global Ratings. In her role, she leads the team developing commercial strategy for new and existing products and initiatives.

Before joining S&P, Lynn was HSBC’s Head of Global Strategy, Structured Finance and Global Head of Securitisation, Debt Capital Markets. Prior to that role, she was co-head of flow securitisation at BNP Paribas, London.

Lynn is a Canadian and English lawyer by background. She practised law at Clifford Chance, London and Stikeman, Elliott, Toronto/Budapest.

Lynn has a B.A. (Hons, Political Science, McGill University), LL.B. (Western Ontario) and a D.E.A. (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

She is past Chair of AFME’s Securitisation Board, Current member of AFME’s ESG Steering Committee, Member of ICMA’s Green Bond Advisory Council and a Trustee of the Davis Educational Foundation, supporting schooling for disadvantaged children in East London.

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Scott MacLellan, CFA, CMT Director, is a portfolio manager in BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group. He is the co-lead portfolio manager of BlackRock's Low Duration Bond Fund and the BGF USD Short Duration Bond Fund. As a lead portfolio manager on the USD short duration fixed income platform, he also focuses on managing multi sector short duration portfolio mutual fund, separate account business as well as multiple closed end funds.

Mr. MacLellan is the head of both the Fundamental Fixed Income ESG Implementation Committee, working to integrate ESG into our bond investment process globally and the firm’s ESG Capital Market’s Working Group, serving to drive innovation in ESG fixed income markets with issuers and syndicate desk’s worldwide. Mr. MacLellan is BlackRock’s representative on ICMA’s Sustainability Linked Bonds Working Group.

Prior to assuming his current responsibilities in 2012, Mr. MacLellan was a member of the Global Client Group, covering Japanese clients. He also served as a product specialist for short duration fixed income products. Previously, Mr. MacLellan spent four years with Nomura BlackRock Asset Management (NBAM), a former joint venture between BlackRock and Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd, in Tokyo as an account manager. Prior to joining NBAM in 2001, Mr. MacLellan spent a year in the Global Finance and Investment Department of IBJ Leasing in Tokyo.

Mr. MacLellan earned a BS degree, with honors, in economics and international development studies from King's College in 1997 followed by graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego and Tohoku University in Japan. Mr. MacLellan is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Market Technician.

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Judy is the CEO of ESG Global Advisors, a firm that bridges the gap between companies and investors on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. With over 20 years’ legal experience, the last twelve of which has been exclusively focused on ESG, Judy is a globally recognized expert on ESG and responsible investment.

Prior to forming ESG Global Advisors, Judy was V.P. & Head of Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment for RBC Global Asset Management (“RBC GAM”) and was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Judy launched the Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment group at RBC GAM in 2012 and was responsible for developing the firm’s overall ESG strategy, working with the investment teams to integrate ESG into the investment process, overseeing all proxy voting globally and engaging with investee companies, both individually and collaboratively with other investors.

Previously, Judy was the Director of Policy Development & Chief Operating Officer for the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (“CCGG”), a coalition of most of Canada’s largest institutional investors. Judy has a Master's degree in securities law and practiced law in various capacities, including as enforcement counsel with the OSC, litigation counsel with a large broker/dealer and as a partner in a Bay Street law firm.

Judy is a Board Advisor to Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group and a Director of Gibson Energy, a leading, oil-focused infrastructure company. She is a current member of the TSX Listings Advisory Committee, the CCGG Public Policy Committee and the UN PRI’s Global Policy Reference Group. She was previously the Canada Correspondent for the International Corporate Governance Network. In 2020, Judy received a Clean50 award for her leadership in advancing sustainability and clean capitalism in Canada.

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Michael Viehs joined the international business of Federated Hermes in 2015, initially as part of EOS, and transferred to the Responsibility Office in 2018. He is Head of ESG Integration for all public market equity and credit funds managed from London. As part of that role, he advises the investment and stewardship teams on their integration approach and ensures that they have incisive ESG, sustainability and engagement information at hand to make better investment and engagement decisions for all of our clients. Furthermore, he is responsible for the ESG and stewardship research activities, proving the value-add from engagement and incorporating ESG information in investment decisions. Michael continues to conduct executive- and board-level engagements on environmental, social, governance (ESG), and strategic issues with German publicly-listed corporations.

Prior to this, Michael was Research Director at University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. His work on responsible investment, corporate governance, and stewardship has been published in Corporate Governance: An International Review and Annals of Social Responsibility. Amongst others, he is co-author of the widely recognised study “From the Stockholder to the Stakeholder – How Sustainability Can Drive Financial Outperformance” and contributed a chapter on active ownership to the recently published book Re-Imagining Capitalism (Oxford University Press) edited by Dominic Barton, Dezsö Horvath, and Matthias Kipping. He has also presented his work on responsible investing at several high-profile academic and industry conferences around the world.

Michael holds a BSc, MSc and PhD from Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics.

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Vinay Shandal leads Boston Consulting Group’s Principal Investors & Private Equity practice in Canada, and is the global leader of the firm’s sustainable finance and investing business.

Vinay has helped leading pools of capital (pension, sovereign wealth, private equity, infrastructure, and real estate funds) across the globe on strategy (including ESG strategy), transaction support, and portfolio value creation. He has published and spoken extensively on the topic of sustainable investing.

Vinay is also a core member of BCG’s Centre for Canada’s Future. In that role, he helps move Canada forward by providing insight and expertise on the country’s most important issues. The centre also aims to convene leaders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to work together to achieve impact. He is also a board member of Capitalize 4 Kids, a nonprofit that aims to solve the toughest challenges in children's brain and mental health.

Before he joined the firm, Vinay practiced law for several years, including with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His legal experience includes both private and public company mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and investments in a range of industries. Vinay obtained his LL.M. degree from Cambridge University in 2005 and B.C.L. and LL.B. from McGill University in 2003.

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Sara joined the RBC US Equity Strategy team in 2017 as a Vice President. She spearheads the ESG strategy work from the team (the monthly ESG Scoop). Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets, she was a member of the Credit Suisse US Equity Strategy team from 2015-2017 and Credit Suisse Small/Mid Cap US Equity Strategy team from 2010-2014. She is a CFA charterholder. Sara graduated from McGill University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Honors in Investment Management.

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