UNEP FI Regional Roundtable 2023 - Europe | United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) | 11 September 2023 | TBA, Madrid, Spain

This important event will help define the role of banking, insurance and investment in proactively accelerating a greener economy whilst transitioning to a low-carbon, inclusive and sustainable future in the region. Part of its major five regional event series on sustainable finance in 2023, will showcase the cutting-edge responses to emerging global trends in sustainable finance, the responsible banking and insurance agendas as well as action on biodiversity loss. The event will convene finance professionals to discuss the most pressing sustainability issues in the region such as climate and nature risk, financing the net zero transition, regulation affecting sustainability integration in the finance industry, and those further out on the horizon like circularity and plastics.

2023 Speakers

Careen Abb
SDGs and Impact Lead

Ravi Abeywardana
Director of Strategic Affairs and Capacity Building, the IFRS Foundation

Mauro Accurso
Senior Business Development Manager for Iberian Peninsula, South Pole

Angélica Afanador
Director, Guidehouse and Executive Director, Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)

Patrick Amis
Head, Directorate General Specialised Institutions and LSIs, European Central Bank

Ivani Benazzi de Andrade
Sustainability Superintendent, Bradesco Seguros (Brazil)

Miguel Ángel Amores
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Manager, Triodos Bank

Lucas Arangüena
Global Head of Green Finance and SCIB Head of ESG solutions, Santander

Butch Bacani
Insurance Lead

Philipp Bäcker
Head of Sustainability, R+V Versicherung AG

Jordi Balcells Santolaria
Head of Sustainability, VidaCaixa

Antoni Ballabriga
Global Head of Responsible Business, BBVA (Spain)

Laura Barlow
Group Head of Sustainability, Barclays

Judson Berkey
Managing Director, Chief Sustainability Office, UBS

Adrita Bhattacharya-Craven
Director Health & Ageing, The Geneva Association

José Luis Blasco
Global Sustainability Director, ACCIONA

Ana Botín
Executive Chair, Santander

Daniel Bouzas
Regional Coordinator, Europe

Murat Bozdemir
Head, Product Development for ESG & Climate Risk Enterprise Data solutions for EMEA & APAC, Bloomberg

Karine Bueno
Individual Review Team Lead

Christian Castro
Head of Public Affairs, CaixaBank

Ekaterina Chubarova
Sustainable Finance and Just Transition Specialist, ILO

James Close
Head of Climate Change, NatWest Group

Vincent Damas
Group Head of CSR, CNP Assurances (France)

Lara de Mesa
Global Head of Responsible Banking, Santander

Carlota de Paula Coelho
Advocacy and Sustainable Finance Lead, B Lab Europe & Member, EFRAG TEG

Alejandra Diaz
Director of Sustainability, Seguros Bolívar

Johanna Dichtl
Implementation Guidance Team Lead

Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Head of ESG, Piraeus Financial Holdings

Piotr Dmuchowski
Vice President of the Board and Chief Investment Officer, PZU TFI

Wendy Dobson
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Amandine Favier
Head of Sustainable Finance, WWF Switzerland

Remco Fischer
Climate Lead, UNEP FI; Co-head of NZAOA Secretariat

Teresa Fung
Head of Sustainability, Global Insurance, HSBC

Marta García de Oteyza Kindelan
Director, Responsible Banking, Banco Santander

Moira Gill
Associate Vice President, Environment, Government and Industry Relations, TD Insurance

Romie Goedicke den Hertog
Co-Head, Nature, UNEP FI

José Ignacio Goirigolzarri
Chairman, CaixaBank

Marcel Haag
Director, Horizontal Policies, DG for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

Antonio Huertas
Chairman and CEO, Mapfre

Burçak İnel
Director of Financing Sustainable Growth, European Banking Federation

Nathalie Jaubert
Group Corporate Social Responsibility, Deputy Head, BNP Paribas

Deepak Jobanputra
Chief Sustainability Officer, Vitality

Patty Karuaihe-Martin
Managing Director, NamibRe (Namibia)

Andrea Keenan
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, AM Best

Josh Ling
Actuary and Disaster Risk Finance Specialist, Global Shield Solutions Platform and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Cinzia Losenno
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Project Directorate, European Investment Bank

José Manuel Marqués Sevillano
Head, Financial Innovation Division, Bank of Spain (Banco de España)

Frida Mekoui
Director, Public Affairs, Societe Generale

Vanessa Otto-Mentz
Partner, Deloitte

Kristin Parello-Plesner
Head, Group Sustainability Danske Bank

Pablo Pérez-Montero González
Global Head of Sustainable Finance & ESG Advisory CIB&IB, CaixaBank

Flora Petrucci
Capacity Building Coordinator for Europe

Michal Piechocki
Chairman, Business Reporting - Advisory Group (BR-AG P.S.A.)

Patricia Pina
Head of Research & Innovation, Clarity AI

Nicola Ranger
Leader, Resilience & Development Programme, & ED, Oxford Martin Programme on Systemic Resilience, University of Oxford

Alenka Recelj Mercina
Head of Sustainability, NLB d.d

Miguel Rescalvo
Managing Partner, Neyen

Teresa Ribera
Vice-President, Government of Spain and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge

Frank Jan Risseeuw
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Transformation Officer, ING

Filipa Rodrigues Carmona
Deputy Director Sustainability, Caixa Geral de Depósitos

Gemma Sanchez-Danes
Acting Head of Secretariat, Sustainability reporting (ESRS), EFRAG

Reto Schnarwiler
Head Chairman's Office, Swiss Re

Markus Seifert
Head of Nordic activities and Chairman of the Board, d-fine AB

Tennessee Soudain
Head of Regulatory Advisory, ECOFACT

Massimiano Tellini
Director, Global Head Circular Economy, Intesa Sanpaolo

Marco Tormen
Europe & DACHLI Regional Lead, Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)

Carlos Torres Vila
Chair, BBVA

Eric Usher
Head, UNEP Finance Initiative

Elisa Vacherand
Interim Global Finance Practice Leader, WWF

Liesel van Ast
Membership and Regional Co-ordination Manager

Monica Zuleta Diaz
Corporate Director of Sustainability, MAPFRE

2023 Sponsors and Partners

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• BBVA
• CaixaBank
• Mapfre
• Santander

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Societe Generale

BRONZE SPONSOR:
• Eco:Fact

PARTNERS:
• Climate Action
• European Banking Federation