Sustainable Finance in 2022: Putting Europe’s Ambition Into Practice

Mary Schapiro

Vice Chair

GFANZ

Mary L. Schapiro is the Vice Chair of Global Public Policy of Bloomberg, the global financial technology company that was founded in 1981. She has been at Bloomberg since October 2018, and also serves as a Special Advisor to the Founder and Chairman.

Ms. Schapiro, who has had a distinguished career as a financial services regulator under four U.S. presidents from both political parties, oversees Bloomberg’s public policy and regulatory priorities globally. Her service as the 29th SEC Chair culminated decades of regulatory leadership. She was the first woman to serve as SEC Chair, and the only person to have served as chair of both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. During her four years as SEC Chair, Ms. Schapiro presided over one of the busiest rulemaking agendas in the SEC’s history, during which the agency also executed a comprehensive restructuring program to improve protections for investors and pursued aggressive enforcement of the federal securities laws.

Ms. Schapiro also serves as an advisor to Bloomberg in multiple capacities, including as a leader for three groups chaired by Michael R. Bloomberg. The first group – the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures – has developed and garnered wide spread support for a voluntary framework for corporate disclosure of climate-related risk information to help investors, lenders, underwriters and others make informed financial decisions. The second group – the Working Group on U.S. RMB Trading and Clearing – supports the internationalization of China’s currency in order to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of U.S. businesses by lowering trading costs and improving access to China’s markets. The third is the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative.

Before becoming SEC Chair and working for Bloomberg, Ms. Schapiro served as chief executive officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the largest nongovernmental regulator of securities firms.

Earlier, she was Chair of the CFTC from 1994 to 1996, a commissioner of the SEC from 1988 to 1994, and general counsel of the Futures Industry Association. She serves on the board of both Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), and CVS Health (NYSE: CVS). She previously served on the board of GE and the London Stock Exchange. She is also a member of the governing board of the Center for Audit Quality and serves on advisory boards at the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College.

Constantin Cotzias

European Director

Bloomberg

Constantin M. Cotzias is European Director at Bloomberg L.P. He is Global Head of External Affairs. He is a Director of Bloomberg Tradebook and Bloomberg Multilateral Trading Facility. He sits on the Mayor of London Economic Advisory Board and the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council. He was previously CEO of Bloomberg’s legal and regulatory news and research division. He joined Bloomberg in 2001 as Chief Counsel. Prior to Bloomberg, Cotzias was a senior mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Denton Wilde Sapte (presently known as Dentons), one of the United Kingdom’s largest law firms, where he advised on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and IPOs across industries including media, telecoms, technology, and energy. From 1998-2000, he was Chief Counsel of Denton Wilde Sapte’s Moscow office. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Modern History and Politics and is a Law graduate from the London School of Economics (University of London). Cotzias is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Thibaut Heurtebize

Senior Research Analyst

BNP Paribas Asset Management

Thibaut is a Senior Quantitative Analyst in the Research Lab of the Quantitative Research Group at BNP Paribas Asset Management. Before joining BNP Paribas Asset Management in April 2019, he managed several financial services quant teams for 8 years (PwC, Accenture) and worked in public research for 2 years (CNRS, ESA) before founding and managing his private company for 4 years creating innovation products (robots and NLP) and advising banks senior management (partnering with McKinsey & Co or shareholders) Thibaut has a Master’s in physics from Observatoire de Paris / Ecole normale Supérieure and a Master’s in engineering from Ecole spéciale des Travaux publics, du Bâtiment et de l'Industrie.

Maia Godemer

Senior Sustainable Finance Analyst

BloombergNEF

Maia is a research analyst in the sustainable finance team for BloombergNEF (BNEF). She particularly focuses on sustainable debt, derivatives and regulations for this market. Maia is part of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance as support of Bloomberg member Nadia Humphreys (also known as Sherpa role). Maia holds a Bachelor in Philosophy from Université Pierre Mendes France, as well as an MSc. in Management and an MSc. in Finance from Grenoble Ecole de Management. BloombergNEF (BNEF) is a strategic research provider covering global commodity markets and the disruptive technologies driving the transition to a low-carbon economy. Our expert coverage assesses pathways for the power, transport, industry, buildings and agriculture sectors to adapt to the energy transition. We help commodity trading, corporate strategy, finance and policy professionals navigate change and generate opportunities.

Budha Bhattacharya

Chief Product Officer, ESG IQ

KPMG UK

Budha is the Chief Product Officer of ESG IQ in KPMG. Prior to KPMG he worked at Goldman Sachs, UBS, BAML & JPMorgan. Budha pursued PhD in Quantitative Finance from UCL and EMBA from INSEAD. He is also an Industrial Professor of Finance & Banking at University College London, Institute of Finance & Technology his main research topics include big data driven ESG analytics, NLP models and sustainable finance.   ESG IQ is KPMG’s flagship ESG Big Data analytics platform, developed by KPMG's Lighthouse data scientists and engineers in conjunction with Google Cloud. ESG IQ enables subscribers (FS firms and corporates)  to select and pool structured ESG reference data from multiple providers and unstructured data from a wide range of sources. ESG IQ is unique as it can analyse and assess multiple asset classes and not just entities, enabling clients understand the drivers behind the ESG standings, providing the root-cause analysis of what factors and issues have led to the assessment.  

Anne Kastner

Sustainable Finance Specialist

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB)

Anne is a Sustainable Finance Specialist in the Climate & Sustainable Finance team at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB). She joined the SEB team in 2019 and specializes in sustainability data modelling and institutional advisory. Anne has extensive experience working with investment portfolios and EU regulatory developments, especially the EU Taxonomy. She has developed SEB’s EU Taxonomy portfolio model. Anne holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Development from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Mehdi Bourai

ESG Financial Engineer, ESG Scoring and Methodologies

Amundi

Mehdi joined Amundi’s ESG Scoring and Methodologies team in 2020, where he is in charge of ESG integration within the investment platform. He participates in building ESG scores as well as partnering with portfolio manager with regards to ESG integration. Prior to Amundi, Mehdi was in charge of portfolio construction for Multi-Asset portfolios at AXA IM. Mehdi started his career as a Portfolio Manager at Advenis Investment Managers in 2011. He is also a graduate from Paris Dauphine University and holds a Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF).

Martin Spolc

Head of Sustainable Finance

European Commission

Martin Spolc is the Head of the Sustainable Finance in the European Commission's Directorate General for Financial Services. Prior to his current role, he was the Head of the Capital Markets Union unit, the Economic analysis unit, Deputy Head of the Banking unit and Assistant to the Director General, directly involved in developing key projects in the area of financial services since the banking crisis. Before joining the Commission, he had worked at risk management consultancy and the banking sector. He is the holder of the CFA and FRM designations and member of the CFA Institute and Global Association of Risk Professionals.