Crisis as Catalyst: Higher Stakes for Climate and ESG Investment

The IIF and State Street hosted a IIF Sustainable Finance Workshop entitled Crisis as Catalyst: Higher Stakes for Climate and ESG Investment. The workshop featured panel conversations on the quest for better disclosure, ESG investing in the time of COVID-19, and practitioner perspectives on ESG metrics, methodologies and data.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

• Jenn Bender, Senior Managing Director, Director of Research for the Global Equity Beta Solutions Team, State Street
• Bob Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Janine Guillot, Chief Executive Officer, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
• Patricia Hudson, Head of Executive Communications and Thought Leadership, State Street Corporation
• Henrik Jeppesen, Head of Investor Outreach, Carbon Tracker
• David King, Head of Environmental, Social and Governance Stewardship, Fidelity
• Giel Linthorst, Executive Director, PCAF
• Leon Saunders Calvert, Head of Sustainability Finance, Lipper and I&A Insights, Refinitiv
• Mary Schapiro, Vice Chair for Public Policy and Special Advisor to Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg LP
• George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor, Harvard Business School
• Doug Sims, Senior Advisor for Green Finance and Director of the Center for Market Innovation, Natural Resources Defense Council