Roger Miles

25 years: Behavoural science & conduct

Roger researches behavioural risks in organisations, and advises senior leaders on how best to communicate risk and conduct matters. Previously, Roger ran risk communication programmes for professional bodies and the British Government. He now runs industry-level Academies for Conduct and Culture, and produces workshops with financial firms.

Simon Thompson

Managing Director and Author

Simon Thompson is an accomplished executive with over 17 years of leadership in banking and finance, specialising in ethical and sustainable finance. As Managing Director of the Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC), he drives global efforts to enhance financial systems through capacity building and education. Previously, as Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute, Simon transformed it into a global leader in socially responsible banking, advocating for ethics, culture, and sustainable finance. He is the author of Green & Sustainable Finance: Principles & Practice and course leader for the Certificate in Green & Sustainable Finance, a globally recognised qualification. Simon is a thought leader in green finance and lifelong professional learning in the financial sector.

Christian Hunt

25 years: Behavioural science & compliance

Christian is the founder of Human Risk, a Behavioural Science led Consulting and Training Firm. Previously, Christian was Managing Director at UBS, and Head of Behavioural Science (BeSci), within the Bank’s Risk function. Prior to joining UBS, he was Chief Operating Officer at the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority.

Stephanie Sfakianos

35 years: Sustainable finance & banking

Stephanie's long career in the financial services industry in London culminated around the past seven years in the field of sustainable finance. She has now left the banking industry, but has continued to apply her sustainable finance expertise through her work with ICMA and the International Standards Organisation.

Amit Kara

30 years: Macroeconomist

Amit is Associate Research Director for Global Macroeconomic Analysis at NIESR. He is a macroeconomist with experience in central banking, investment banking, commercial banking and corporate credit rating. He has most recently worked at HSBC where he helped design the forward economic guidance input for IFRS 9. Amit is currently working on two substantial research projects related to the macroeconomic impact of climate change.

Hannah Duncan

Sustainability marketing & Investor relations

Hannah is a passionate and experienced copywriter, with a flair for all things finance. Hannah worked as the Senior Content Manager at Invest Click & Invest, before becoming a contributing writer for Hargreaves Landsdown and Fintech Finance where she wrote blogs, white papers and web copy for businesses - as well as articles for magazines and newspapers. Hannah now is the content writer & founder of Hannah Duncan Investment Content.

Keith Mullin

35 years: Capital markets editorial

Keith is the founder and director of KM Capital Markets, a media and thought-leadership consultancy. He spent the past 35 years working in specialist capital markets media and has had a ring-side seat at all of the major market events. Prior to setting up KM Capital Markets in 2017, Keith worked at Thomson Reuters.

Mandy Hickson

25 years: Ex-RAF pilot & leadership expert

Mandy Hickson was one of the first female fighter pilots in the Royal Air Force having joined in 1994. Mandy has over 25 years experience within aviation, operating in hostile environments, including patrolling the ‘No Fly’ zone, flying over 50 combat missions over Iraq. Drawing on her experience of calculated risk-taking, leadership, decision-making under pressure and the critical role of the human in the system, Mandy now transfers these lessons from the cockpit to many other management and leadership contexts.

Moorad Choudhry

34 years: Banking and Capital Markets

Professor Moorad Choudhry is a non-executive director at two UK financial institutions, having worked in London since 1989. He has experience in wholesale capital markets, treasury, ALM, and balance sheet management. Moorad's most recent role was as divisional treasurer at the Royal Bank of Scotland. He has also worked with Europe Arab Bank, KBC Financial Products, and JP Morgan. He is the author of "The Principles of Banking," which is currently in its 2nd edition.

Richard Kemmish

30 years: Capital markets & covered bonds

Richard is a consultant working mainly in the covered bond market. He helps Finance Ministries and Central Banks in countries without covered bond laws to put legal frameworks in place. He has also helped the European Commission with their legislative agenda for covered bonds and related products.

Stuart Sweeney

35 years: Risk management & social finance

Stuart spent 23 years working on the fixed income side of finance, in London and New York. He covered bonds, derivatives and leveraged finance. Stuart also worked as a university teacher and researcher publishing books and articles on economic and political history. He moved into social investment two years ago.

Tim Skeet

35 years: Debt capital markets

Banker with more than 35 years experience in the financial markets. Tim has been an ICMA board member and an ECBC steering committee member. Tim is a Freeman of the City of London.

Karina Robinson

30 years: Boards & governance

Karina Robinson is the CEO of Robinson Hambro. Alongside this position Karina has a few other roles includes being on the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics, where she is also a Visiting Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of The Inclusion Initiative. Karina is also Chair of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal Advisory Board, and finally, Karina is also Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, a one year role where she is the chairperson of a livery company that has finance professionals as members. Karina is a champion of the City of London, with a deep belief in the power of Diversity & Inclusion.

Roger Noon

25 years: Behavoural science & culture

Roger is an executive coach and culture change practitioner with a background in engineering and programme management. He has spent the last decade in large multinational banks working out how to understand culture and strengthen behaviours in order to improve conduct, risk management and business performance.

Vix Anderton

Wellness & productivity specialist

Vix is dedicated to helping individuals and organisations achieve meaningful and sustainable change through evidence-based research, practical planning, red-teaming and coaching. Vix is an accredited Mental Health First Aider, ICF-certified life coach and yoga teacher, Vix loves to draw on psychology, neuroscience, and behaviour change research as well as Eastern philosophies and traditions to inform her work.

Hans-Kristian Bryn

35 years: Strategic risk management and governance

Hans-Kristian Bryn is a strategic risk and governance advisor with over 20 years of partner level advisory experience. He is currently a senior advisor to Boards and ExCo's listed on the FTSE 100 & FTSE 250 on risk management and governance related matters. Prior to private advisory, Hans was a partner at firms such as Oliver Wyman and PwC and worked across a wide range of sectors.

Debbie Taylor

25 years: HR & Management

Debbie Taylor worked at Natwest for almost 20 years before becoming a HR Director and opening her own HR consultancy 'People and business'. She provides commercial HR support to owner managed businesses nationwide and aims to always bring 'people' into business planning.

David Wynn

15 years: Sustainability

Greenstone provides award-winning software solutions and services enabling companies to advance their sustainability strategies and become responsible businesses. As Managing Director North America, David is responsible for running Greenstone’s US operations and is Business Manager for Greenstone’s Enterprise software, ensuring product developments align with client needs and the latest in GHG accounting and ESG reporting. David has been with Greenstone for 9 years and has 15 years’ experience in sustainability consultancy helping public and private sector organizations transform their ESG journeys.

Colin Palmer

40 years: Renewable energy

Colin has been involved in renewable energy since the late 1970's. In 1988 he launched his own renewable energy company Windcluster Ltd, which financed and built one of the first wind farms in the UK. Colin has also been a director of the British Wind Energy Association and ReGen Southwest as well as a trustee of the Centre for Sustainable Energy in Bristol.

Adrian Pabst

Deputy Director: National Institute of Economic & Social Research

Adrian is Deputy Director at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. His research has a focus on political theory, the political economy and public policy. Adrian read Economics at the University of Cambridge and then completed a Masters at the London School of Economics, before returning to Cambridge to undertake his PhD.

Sir Ronald Cohen

Father of impact investing

Sir Ronald Cohen is the Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School and The Portland Trust. At the start of his career, he co-founded the private equity firm Apax Partners. In 2020, he wrote the bestselling book “Impact: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change”. Considered the Father of Social Investment, in 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.

James Clifton

25 years: Sustainability strategy

James Clifton is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Cultivo, a fintech company whose mission is to unlock investment in nature at scale. He is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building data-driven technology ventures from ideas to IPO. 

Nisrin Abouelezz

20 years: Structured finance and diversity advocate

Nisrin Abouelezz is a banker covering emerging markets for an Asian bank in the City of London. She has experienced diversity both directly and indirectly in a number of its different forms throughout her career. When Diversity & Inclusion initiative was introduced at her bank, she jumped at the chance to play a part in progressing this important issue faced by both our current generation and those of the future.

Sarah Breeden

Executive Director: Bank of England

Sarah Breeden is the Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk at the Bank of England. She is responsible for guarding the wider economy against damage from the financial system. Sarah has worked at the bank for 30 years, most recently as head of International Bank Supervision.

Mark Carney

UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance

Mark Carney started his career at Goldman Sachs working in their offices across three continents. Following a decade-long career at Goldman Sachs, Mark was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2003. In 2004 he became Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance, a role he held until he was made governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008. In 2013 Mr Carney accepted the role of governor of the Bank of England, a position he held until 2020. In 2019 he was appointed as UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

Lachlan Tait

15 years: Renewable energy & project finance lawyer

Lachlan Tait is a lawyer specialising in renewable energy and project finance, and has been for 15 years. For the last 5 years he has worked in-house with renewable energy developers active across a range of jurisdictions, including both developed and emerging markets. He has participated in the negotiation, documentation and closing of numerous renewables project financings, involving a wide range of lenders including smaller national banks and international commercial banks.

Emma Zangs

10 years: Communications coach

Emma Zangs is a choreographer and communication coach based between London and Norfolk. She works with growing and established businesses, from GoCardless to Google. Emma lectures at Cass Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School and UCL's Entrepreneurship MSc.

Vincent Kneefel

15 years: Ocean conservationist

Vincent Kneefel is an underwater photographer, ocean conservationist and circular economy expert. He has worked for organizations such as WWF, United Nations and Accenture on strategic sustainability and ocean conservation initiatives. His photographs show some of the most iconic and endangered creatures of our ocean.

Oliver Bolton

ClimateTech entrepreneur

Oliver Bolton is a ClimateTech entrepreneur with 12 years experience in the consumer product and health sectors. He founded his first drinks brand, Alibi in 2007. In 2015, his soft drinks company Waterbomb Ltd. became a founding UK B Corp and one of the first European soft drinks brands to become B Corp accredited. In 2014, Oliver co-founded the vitamin brand VITL.com. VITL became the largest subscription and nutrition platform and combined AI, DNA & bloods analysis. Oliver was a recipient of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin COOM award in 2017, which came with a £3 million prize support package. Oliver also mentors students who have grown up in some of the UK's most deprived communities through the Prince's Trust. In 2018, Oliver pivoted from the consumer product and health sectors into climate technology. He is the founder and CEO of Earthly, a marketplace that connects businesses with high-integrity nature-based solutions.

Ma Jun

Founder and President: Institute of Finance and Sustainability

Dr. Ma Jun is the Founder and President of the Institute of Finance and Sustainability. He is also the Chairman of China’s Green Finance Committee, Co-Chair of G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Green Investment Principles for the Belt & Road and Director of the Centre for Finance and Development at Tsinghua University. Dr Ma Jun has published more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles on macroeconomic, monetary policy, environmental economics and green finance.

Elisa Moscolin

Executive Vice President for Sustainability and Foundation

Elisa Moscolin is a sustainability professional with a track record of driving this agenda in global blue-chip organisations. She advises Boards and Executive teams on sustainability strategy and execution. She has worked in the ICT and Financial Services sectors. Elisa is currently Executive Vice President for Sustainability and Foundation at Sage Group plc.; Sage is a global market leader for technology for small and medium businesses and Elisa is leading its sustainability agenda. Elisa has previously worked for Vodafone Group in global and local roles in Italy, the UK and Kenya. In Kenya she worked with Safaricom, a subsidiary of Vodafone which developed M-Pesa, the iconic mobile-based money transfer and banking platform that has greatly improved financial inclusion in the country. She is an alumni of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and holds a Master’s Degree in International Studies and Diplomacy. Elisa’s professional ambition is to contribute to shifting the business community toward more ethical and responsible business practices.

Arun Kelshiker

20 years: Asset management and stewardship

Arun Kelshiker was formerly the Head of Asset Allocation and Portfolio Strategy at Standard Chartered Bank and part of the bank's Global Investment Committee, where he provided investment advisory and multi-asset portfolio solutions. His focus is now with Cambridge Sustainable Investment Partners, which draws its expertise from the Resilience and Sustainable Development Centre at Cambridge University. He is also a university lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and is Vice Chair of the CFA UK's Inclusion and Diversity Committee and its Investment Committee.

Larissa Marioni

10 years: Macro Economist

Larissa Marioni is a Senior Economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and a Research Associate at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). Her research interests lie primarily in labour economics, particularly related to education and migration with a broader interest in development economics and public policy. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southampton.

Marilyn Swinney

20 years: Business Development & Growth

Marilyn Swinney, a two-decade-old asset management professional, has a proven track record of developing strategic partnerships across various institutions. Her skills in business development, risk management, investment solutions, and product development, combined with her visual impairment, enable her to provide unique perspectives to investors. Swinney is a CFA Charter holder and active in the diversity, equity, and inclusion community, holding advisory board positions for groups like GAIN and Cambridge Sustainable Investment Partners. She is also a business ambassador for Ambitious About Autism.