Adina Gillespie

Adina is responsible for GHGSat business development and expansion in Europe. GHGSat is a Canada/UK company using its own satellites combined with other data to deliver greenhouse gas monitoring services for industrial facilities around the world. GHGSat’s London office is focused on delivering emissions data for investor’s assets. Adina leads of European institutional engagement for […]

Vesselina Haralampieva

Vesselina Haralampieva is a Senior Counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, U.K. She leads the energy and climate change policy and law reform work at the EBRD’s legal department aimed at enabling green transition and sustainable finance across the EBRD’s region of operations. Vesselina advises on matters relating to […]

Vanessa Havard-Williams

Vanessa is leader of Linklaters’ global environmental and climate change group, a member of our crisis practice and co-ordinator of the firmwide ESG team.

Irene Heemskerk

Irene Heemskerk joined the European Central Bank in June 2021 to head the Climate Change Centre. She is responsible for shaping and steering the ECB’s climate agenda internally and externally. Irene also represents the ECB in the Central Banks and Supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) and is as an observer to the […]

Catherine Higham

Catherine Higham is the Coordinator of the Climate Change Laws of the World project at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Catherine joined the Grantham Research Institute after nearly a decade of policy and advocacy work in the not for profit […]

Carine Smith Ihenacho

Carine Smith Ihenacho is responsible for the governance and compliance area, which includes ownership and responsible investment activities, control and operational risk, compliance and legal services. Carine Smith Ihenacho was appointed Chief Governance and Compliance Officer 6 October 2020. She joined Norges Bank Investment Management in August 2017 as Global Head of Ownership Strategies and […]

Franziska Jahn‐Madell

Franziska Jahn-Madell is director of global stewardship at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). In this role, she is responsible for creating a companywide global stewardship strategy, incorporating sustainability, engagement, and proxy voting. She is based in London. Franziska joined MFS in 2021 in her current role. Prior to joining the firm, she worked at Frankfurt University […]

Madeleine Jenkins

Madeleine Jenkins is a financial journalist at Environmental Finance, an online news and analysis service established in 1999 to report on sustainable investment, green finance and the people and companies active in environmental markets. The site is updated every day and is complemented by a quarterly magazine.Ms Jenkins has a particular focus on carbon markets and […]

Kamil Kluza

Kamil is a co-founder and CPO at Climate X, a financial services-focussed and London-based data & analytics firm quantifying climate risk ratings and associated losses at an asset-level scale. Kamil is a statistician and econometrician with a passion for tinkering with all kinds of models that project the future. He has an extensive experience in risk management […]

Dr Janelle Knox-Hayes

Janelle Knox-Hayes is an Associate Professor of Economic Geography and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT and the director of the Resilient Communities Lab. Her research focuses on the governance of climate mitigation and adaptation and systems to build socio-economic, cultural and environmental resilience for communities. Her latest projects examine how community […]