Green Finance and Investment 2021 | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | 11 October 2021 | Virtual Conference

The OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment is the annual flagship event of the OECD Centre on Green Finance and Investment. Now in its eighth year, the Forum gathers senior policy makers and key public and private actors for action-oriented discussions on green and sustainable finance issues. High-Level speakers during previous editions of the Forum have included notably.

2021 Speakers

FEATURING SPEAKERS:

Tomoko Amaya
Financial Services Agency, Government of Japan, Vice Minister for International Affairs

Mathias Cormann
Secretary-General, OECD

Masyita Crystallin
Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance

Partha Dasgupta
Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics

Daniele Franco
Minister of Economy and Finance

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Senior Director for Climate Finance to United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

Laurence Tubiana
Chief Executive Officer, European Climate Foundation

SPEAKERS:

Olivia Albrecht
Global Head, ESG, TCW Group

Shanika Amarasekara
Chief Impact Officer, British Business Bank

Tomoko Amaya
Vice Minister for International Affairs, Financial Services Agency, Government of Japan

Tomas Anker Christensen
Climate Ambassador

Kiran Aziz
Head, Responsible Investments, KLP Asset Management

Victoria Barbary
Director, Strategy and Communications, International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF)

Espen Barth Eide
Norwegian Parliament and Labour Party

Meredith Bearden
Director, ESG Strategy and M&A

Paul Bodnar
Global Head, Sustainable Investing, BlackRock

Kingsmill Bond
Carbon Tracker Initiative, Energy Strategist

Simon Buckle
Head, Environment, Transitions and Resilience Division, OECD

Verania Chao
Programme Specialist, Gender, Inclusion and Climate Change, UNDP

Madeleine Chenette
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Canada to the OECD

Jay Collins
Vice Chairman, Banking, Capital Markets, Advisory, Citigroup

Mathias Cormann
Secretary-General, OECD

Masyita Crystallin
Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance

Partha Dasgupta
Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics

Thierry Déau
President, Finance for Tomorrow, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam

Albane Demblans
Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA)

Dia Desai
Global Head, Climate Aligned Finance, HSBC

Mafalda Duarte
Climate Investment Funds, Chief Executive Officer

Claire Elsdon
Director, Capital Markets, Climate Disclosure Project (CDP)

Ivan Faiella
Director and Coordinator, Task Force for the G20 Sustainable Finance, Bank of Italy

Daniele Franco
Minister of Economy and Finance

Catherine Howarth
Chief Executive, ShareAction

Jod Hsu
Senior Investment Analyst, Investment Grade Credit and Global Credit, NN Investment Partners

Raphaël Jachnik
Senior Policy Analyst, Environment Directorate, OECD

Ma Jun
Chairman of China Green Finance Committee

Tsukasa Kanai
Chief Sustainability Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.

Katia Karousakis
Programme Lead, Biodiversity, Land Use and Ecosystems (BLUE), OECD Environment Directorate

Karin Erika Kemper
Global Director, Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy, World Bank

Zoë Knight
Managing Director and Group Head, Centre of Sustainable Finance, HSBC

Masamichi Kono
Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Margaret Kuhlow
Global Finance Practice Leader and Acting Conservation Director, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Rodolfo Lacy
Director, Environment Directorate, OECD

Ylva Lindberg
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Communication, Norfund

Gard Lindseth
Senior Advisor, Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment

Diego Lopez
Managing Director, Global SWF

David Lunsford
Senior Associate, Council on Economic Policies (CEP)

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Senior Director for Climate Finance to United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

Richard Mattison
President, S&P Global Sustainable1

Mathilde Mesnard
Acting Director, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

Masato Miyachi
Member of the Board of Directors, Deputy President and Chief Executive, Global Corporate & Investment Banking Business Unit, MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Jorge Moreira da Silva
Director, Development Co-operation Directorate

Meaghan Muldoon
Head, ESG integration, Blackrock

Simon Mundy
Moral Money Editor, Financial Times

Justin Mundy
Senior Fellow and Special Envoy, Conflict & Natural Resources and Sustainable Ocean Initiatives, World Resources Institute (WRI)

Carolyn Neo
Chief Representative, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Robert Patalano
Acting Head, Financial Markets Division Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD

Franz Perrez
Head, International Affairs Division, Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland

Andrew Sawyers
Director, Office of Wastewater Management, EPA Office of Water, United States Environmental Protection Agency

Fiona Stewart
Global Lead, Insurance and Pensions, World Bank Group

Matt Swinehart
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, United States Department of the Treasury

Michael Szönyi
Flood Resilience Program Lead, Zurich Insurance Company

Günther Thallinger
Allianz and UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

Sarah Thompson
RBC Capital Markets and Canadian Standards Association (CSA)

Laurence Tubiana
Chief Executive Officer, European Climate Foundation

Eric Usher
Head, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

Ingrid van Wees
Vice-President, Finance and Risk Management, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Mohan Vivekanandan
Group Executive, Origination & Coverage, Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

Faith Ward
Brunel Pension Partnership and The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Hugh Wheelan
Co-founder and Joint Managing Director, Response Global Media (Publishers of Responsible Investor and Responsible Company), PEI Media

Robert Youngman
Team Leader, Green Finance and Investment, Environment Directorate, OECD

2021 Sponsors

• Meridiam
• MUFG
• S&P Global
• US State Department
• Responsible Investor
• JapanGov