Speakers

Aileen Long

Aileen leads Climate Risk Stress Testing at Citi, responsible for the buildout of the firm’s scenario analysis framework, strategic roadmap, and analytics capability implementation across the organization. This includes the development of climate-related methodologies and integration into scenario design, data, models, infrastructure, and stress testing governance across an end-to-end program.

She started her career at Citi in Corporate and Investment Banking covering Power and Utilities in New York. She has also held numerous roles across Equity Research, Credit Risk Management, and Enterprise and Legal Entity Stress Testing over the course of her banking career.

Aileen earned her Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance and Management.

Aria Goudarzi

Aria is the Global ESG Data & Reporting Lead, as well as the Head of Strategic Analytics & Data at Nikko Asset Management. He has over 16 years’ experience in the financial sector working across Australia, Asia and the UK. His areas of expertise cover data architecture and analytics, process redesign and development, and operational and strategic innovation.

In his current roles he oversees the areas of performance & data analytics in addition to creating and driving the ESG data strategy Globally, as well as developing and driving Global strategic initiatives. 

Celia Lambert Alcantara

Celia Lambert-Alcantara is Head of Sustainable finance and ESG Compliance at Crédit Agricole CIB, the investment bank of the French banking group Crédit Agricole.

With a master degree in political science, economics and international affairs, and an international background, Celia joined the banking industry almost 10 years ago. She joined the Crédit Agricole CIB back in 2015 and, after holding several roles within the compliance department, became Head of ESG Compliance in 2022. Her mission is to ensure that the Bank is compliant with the many European and international regulations on sustainable finance, addressing the greenwashing and ESG non-compliance risks through the implementation of supervision controls and effective advisory to the businesses. In order to address the ESG issues, the bank has launched a transversal ESG program, sponsored by the Top Management, that she is co-managing along with the sustainable banking business. She has been awarded “Leader of sustainability under 35” by the French think Tank HUB Institute.

Dunstan Marris

Dunstan works across Goldman’s divisions, accelerating sustainability projects, using common data, analytics, tools and policies.  He previously led FICC Strats in Asia, with background in quantitative derivative modelling.

Elchin Mammadov

Elchin Mammadov comanages MSCI’s ESG and climate research team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also leads global utilities coverage, publishing company and industry research, overseeing ESG ratings for the utility companies and improving ratings methodology. In his previous role at Bloomberg, Elchin conducted equity research to assess how industry trends and government policies impact the financial performance of utilities. He holds a master’s degree in business management from the University of Surrey.

Graham Reynolds

Graham has over 30 years’ experience in banking and has also been a main Board Director. He has worked across a number of different fields and has held senior roles at Metro Bank, both RBS and NatWest, latterly Managing Director of Global Transaction Services for the Bank’s entire SME business.

At Redwood he is responsible for leading the Bank’s overall strategic direction, development, and delivery of its sustainability and Environment Social and Governance (ESG) ambitions, innovations and commitments.

Outside of banking Graham is a qualified football coach and, for his sine a lifelong Spurs fan and season ticket holder. 

Julian Philips

Kaushik Ghosh Dastidar

Kaushik GD is the Head of ESG Data Architecture & Solution for Natwest, who is responsible for overall data & solution architecture for every enterprise ESG use cases across Natwest. He has over 16 years of experience in Financial industry in UK working across banking, asset management and private equity.

In his current role, he has earned recognition in the ESG data industry by influencing cloud based data distribution instead of traditional file based ones; this, along with other strategic decisions on architecture, tooling selection, and data op model has facilitated Natwest ESG team to complete ESG data platform migration on Snowflake nearly 1 year before expected date and reduce carbon footprint by c.80%. This has helped the bank fast track its ESG journey by enabling all franchises through advanced modelling and data service to drive innovative solution such as Carbon Planner and Sustainable Food Trust

Outside work, he is a passionate marine conservationist and a climate change remediation advocate. Being a long term member of Extinction Rebellion, Green Peace and PADI aware, he spends his spare time diving in various parts of the world, where he has earned two speciality certificates on Shark Awareness Diver & Diving against Debris.

Kaushik holds a Master in Business Administration degree from IE Business School in Spain, along with several professional courses and degrees from University of Edinburgh, Cambridge university and UC Berkley on Climate and mathematical modelling.

Manuel Vicente

Manuel Vicente is a senior international executive with over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry with business, treasury, risk, and finance expertise. Manuel is currently advising financial services, climate tech and academia in assessing materiality and leading solutions in sustainability, climate, and risk management. This includes ESG Board training, strategic plans, risk appetite, client/product due diligence, stress testing, and disclosures.

Prior to this, Manuel was CRO Europe Wholesale and Markets at HSBC, where he focused, amongst others, on shaping and delivering the Sustainability and ESG strategy across the UK and EU regulatory landscape. Prior senior positions included Group Risk, Regulatory and Data lead for IBOR Transition and Group Risk lead for Brexit.

Manuel holds a MSc in Business Engineering from the Louvain School of Management (LSM of UCL), and the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Parmod Garg

Rachel Neill

Rachel oversees Heptagon’s ESG strategy and firm-wide sustainability initiatives.  She was previously the Chief Sustainability Officer at Connected Asset Management, a dedicated impact investment manager.  Prior to that she developed the sustainable investment strategy at Smart Pension, the fintech master trust.  Her financial services career spans the UK, Channel Islands and Australia and includes various banking and sustainability roles.  Rachel has a BComm Honors in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management from the University of Cape Town and earned her CFA Charter in 2019.

Sandra Schoonhoven

Sandra Schoonhoven is the CoE Lead of Climate Risk – heading a core team of 4-5 people overseeing and coordinating INGs bank-wide activities around Climate Risk. Sandra has been part of ING’s sustainability journey for the last 7 years and as a former Head of Sustainability Programmes co-developed INGs Sustainability Direction and lead the execution of several programmes to achieve this direction. Within her current role she engages with both internal as well as external stakeholders (including supervisors).

Before she joint Global Sustainability, Sandra worked in several business roles within ING. Starting within Customer Intelligence as a data scientist avant la letter and after that moving into different leadership roles, she developed strong analytical -as well as leadership skills with a keen eye and passion for change management.

Before joining ING in 2004, Sandra worked in marketing roles in the publication sector (Wolters Kluwer) and insurance sector (Yarden).

She holds a MSc in Communication from Tilburg University and a Msc in Marketing Strategy from Henley Business University.

Next to her job, Sandra is member of the supervisory board of Stichting Spaarnesant – a public organization that provides public education through 26 schools in Haarlem. She holds an advisory board position at a strategy consultant company Stay Future Proof. And she is a certified Purpose to Impact session leader and has run multiple workshops for colleagues to help them find their purpose. Her own purpose in life is “to serve elephant for dinner”. 

Tanveer Bhatti

Tanveer is a risk manager, chartered accountant, and physicist by training. His career spans senior roles on both the sell-side and buy-side in investment banks, private banking, and asset management in London and New York. He has covered all types of financial and non-financial risks. A hallmark of his approach is a combination of analytical rigour and practical relevance.

Tanveer's interest in risk and finance is focused on the practical impact of new technologies, markets, electronic trading, modelling approaches, and data, and their ability to enable products, services, and new business models that are emerging or did not exist, or drive societal advancement. He is currently Global Head of Model Risk for a fast growing Fintech.

Virginie Pelletier

Yaroslav Sovgyra