Faith in Finance Conference 2018 | Islamic Finance Council | 22 October 2018 | RBS Conference Centre, Edinburgh, 175 Glasgow Rd, Edinburgh, EH12 9SB

The Ethical Finance 2018 conference captures this duality of purpose: investing for return and social value.

The conference will explore how trust in a sustainable economy can be revitalised, and how faith, endowment investors, and asset managers are confronting societal and economic challenges and feeding into the biggest sustainable finance shifts of our time.

It will also get into the real detail of what faith and endowment investors are doing to drive sustainable finance, where they are unable to make progress yet and how they might overcome such barriers. Importantly, it will outline where the relationship between investor and finance/investment providers is evolving to enable partnerships for long-term sustainable finance solutions.

2018 Speakers

Colin Baines
Investment Engagement Manager, Friends Provident Foundation

Peter Baxter
Managing Director, Project Snowball LLP

Jonathan JB Beckett
Senior Manager, Responsible Investing, Scottish Widows

Stephen Beer
Chief Investment Officer, Epworth Investment Management Limited & The Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church

Helen Bogan
Head of Professional Standards, The Chartered Banker Institute

Simon Bond
Director Responsible Investment Portfolio Management , Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Graham Burnside
Advisory Board Member, UKIFC

Sebastian Burnside
Chief Economist, RBS

Mike Clark
Founder Director, Ario Advisory

Amy Clarke
Partner and Co-Founder, Tribe Impact Capital

Costanza Consolandi
Associate Professor of Corporate Finance , University of Siena

James Corah
Secretary, Church Investors Group

Sir Howard John Davies
Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

Robert Dellner
Co-Founder, Centre for Integral Finance and Economics

Jamison Ervin
Manager, Nature for Development , United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Sian Ferguson
Trust Executive, Ashden Trust, JJ Charitable Trust and Mark Leonard Trust, three of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts.

Catherine Flockhart
Director, Baillie Gifford & Co

Susan Fouquier
Head of Transaction Banking Product Franchise , RBS

Leslie Gent
Managing Director, Investment Products and Platform, Coutts

John Glen
Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister, HM Treasury

Rafe Haneef
Chief Executive Officer, CIMB Islamic Bank

JoAnn Hanson
President, Church Investment Group

Charles Haresnape
CEO, Gatehouse Bank

Gail Hurley
Policy Specialist on Development Finance, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

John Kay
British Economist

Farrukh Khan
Senior Director of Business Development, Acumen

Modupe Ladipo
Former Chair, Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA)

Rob Lake
Founder, Authentic Investor

Mohamad Akram Laldin
CEO, International Shariah Research Academy (ISRA)

Stewart Langdon
Partner, LeapFrog Investments

Rishi Madlani
Sustainable Finance Lead, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)

Adam Matthews
Director of Ethics and Engagement | Co-Chair, Church Commissioners for England | Transition Pathway Initiative

Richard Mattison
CEO, Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices

Heather McGregor
Executive Dean, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot- Watt University

Ivan McKee MSP
Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation, The Scottish Parliament

Colin Melvin
Partner, Arkadiko Partners

Martin Palmer
Secretary General, Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC)

Tommy Piemonte
Head of Sustainable Investment Research, Bank für Kirche und Caritas

David Pitt-Watson
Fellow at Judge Business School, Cambridge University

Frank Ross
The Rt Hon Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh

Shaykh Ruzwan Mohammed
Co-founder, Solas Foundation

Kathryn Saklatvala
Investment Content and Thought Leadership, bfinance

Lenka Setkova
Executive Director, Trustee, Coutts, Coutts Foundation

Omar Shaikh
Advisory Board Member, UKIFC

Achim Steiner
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Revd Fiona Stewart-Darling
Reverend, Canary Wharf Multifaith Chaplaincy

Kate Still
Managing Director, Prince's Trust Scotland

Jackie Turpin
Head of Finance, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Revd David Urquhart
Bishop of Birmingham, Church of England

Sylvia van Waveren
Senior Environmental Engagement Specialist, Active Ownership, Robeco

Hugh Wheelan
Managing Editor, Responsible Investor

Josh Zinner
Chief Executive Officer, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)

2018 Sponsors

HOST:
• RBS

CO-SPONSOR:
• Columbia Threadneedle Investments

ASSOCIATE SPONSOR:
• Bailie Gifford
• Leapfrog investments
• Robeco The Investments Engineers
• S&P Dow Jones Indices

EXHIBITOR:
• Chartered Banker

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• DDCAP Group

PARTNERS:
• CIG
• Eurosif
• CRIC
• Global Alliance for Banking on Values
• International Endowments Network
• UKSIF
•