The 2023 IIF Sustainable Finance Roundtable: Financing the Net Zero Transition,  held in partnership with McKinsey Global Institute and GFANZ, was held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, April 13

This year’s roundtable brought together senior officials, private sector leaders, and industry experts for a lively and informative discussion on sustainable and transition finance topics. Key themes included policy and regulatory developments; transition planning; catalyzing private capital for climate and transition finance; funding new technologies; voluntary carbon markets, and other topical ESG investment themes.

Please note this event was closed to the press and held under the Chatham House Rule.

Please contact Daniela Pasturczak at [email protected] for more information.

Confirmed speakers included:
+ Pedro Antonio Alonso Guazo, Representative of the Secretary-General for the Investment of the Assets of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
+ Rostin Behnam, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
+ George Bridges, Senior Adviser to the Group Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
+ Margaret Franklin, President and Chief Executive Officer, CFA Institute
+ Jingdong Hua, Vice Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)

Mekala Krishnan, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute
+ Brian Moynihan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America
+ Annette Nazareth, Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; Chair of the Integrity Counsel for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM)
+ Nikhil Rathi, Chief Executive, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
+ Verena Ross, Chair, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
+ Mary Schapiro, Vice Chair of Global Public Policy and Special Advisor to the Founder and Chairman, Bloomberg LP
+ Daniel Stephens, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
+ Hendrik du Toit, Chief Executive Officer, Ninety-One

+ Olivia White, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, and Director, McKinsey Global Institute