World Pension Summit Excellence & Innovation Awards 2023 | Pensions & Investments | 9 October 2023 | The Hague, Netherlands

This awards are evolving: Not only are we honouring innovative ideas, but are also recognising organisations that are excelling in terms of their strategy, execution or delivery. Pensions & Investments wants to highlight and celebrate the pension funds/plan sponsors that are leading the charge, and these awards aim to inspire organisations and honour them for their creative thinking and solutions.

We believe our industry and the people that work in it have a constant drive to do good, do the right thing, to rethink and to regenerate, in order to ensure a dignified retirement for all people in this world. Difficult times require out-of-the-box thinking and can inspire organisations to become creative solution finders. The urge to make a change and tireless efforts to improve creates outperformers that lead by example in our industry — organisations and thinkers that can inspire others and help boost reform and outcomes around the globe.

We are therefore recognising and rewarding pension funds that are using excellence or innovation to drive their pensions forward through innovative investment, new plan design, excellent technology and participant communication or any way that may help to drive successful outcomes for plan participants. Past winners were selected for their cutting-edge ideas and projects.

The awards recognise innovation as a team effort, so we are rewarding the organisation (read: pension fund), not the individual. We allow pension funds to be nominated by their own employees or by an external organisation: Help your peers by sharing your own innovation and receive recognition for your ingenuity!

Why to attend?
This is the global platform 'for and by' pension professionals. We discuss the long-term components of vital ‘pension cross-roads’. The 14th edition is themed 'Regenerating Sustainable Outcomes' and is your source for global learnings, networking and inspiration. Connect and engage with your peers from accross the globe! Get inspired by the Excellence & Innovation Awards.

2023 Speaker

Ingrid Albinsson
Deputy CEO & Chief Investment Officer, AP7

Leticia Andres-Sanchez
Chief Operations Officer, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Pablo Antolín
Principal Economist, Head of the Private Pensions Unit, OECD

Mark Astley
Co-CEO, Millennium Global

Sophie Baker
International News Editor, Pensions & Investments

Joseph Cavatoni
Market Strategist and Principal Chief Executive Officer funds, World Gold Council

Mark Fawcett
CEO, Nest Invest

Connel Fullenkamp
Professor of the Practice of Economics, Duke University

John Greaves
Head of Investment Strategy and Research, Railpen

Sanjeev Gupta
Executive Director- Financial Services, AFC

Peter Herrmannsberger
Chief Investment Officer, IBM Germany Retirement Funds

Laura Hillis
Director of Climate & Environment, Church of England Pensions Board

Geeta Kapadia
Chief Investment Officer, Fordham University

Geeta Kapadia
Chief Investment Officer, Fordham University

Geraldine Leegwater
CIO, PGGM

Bryan Lewis
Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Steel\

Neil Lotter
Head of Product Development Matrix, RIMES Technologies

Timo Löyttyniemi
CEO, State Pension Fund in Finland (VER)

Anders Lundgren
Head of Public Markets and Real Estate, Nest

George Magnus
Economist and Research Associate at the China Centre, Oxford University, Author of ‘Red Flags: why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy’

Andrew​ Major
Chief Risk Officer, HESTA

Angela Miller May
Chief Investment Officer, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund

Rich Nuzum
Executive Director, Investments and Global Chief Investment Strategist, Mercer

Simon Pilcher
Chief Executive Officer, USSIM

Nikki Pirrello
President and Publisher & WorldPensionSummit Chair, Pensions & Investments

Mark Rogers
CEO, New Forests

Ignace Schops
Director, Belgian NGO Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland (RLKM)

Sameh Shenouda
Executive Director - Chief Investment Officer, AFC

Nando van Kleeff
Senior Programme Manager, Laudes Foundation

Charles Van Vleet
Assistant Treasurer, CIO , Textron Inc.

Jane Wadia
Head of Investment Specialists & RFP, AXA IM Core

Ronald Wuijster
Member of APG Group's Executive Board, responsible for Asset Management, APG Asset Management

Carol Young
Director of Reward & Employment, Natwest Group

KEYNOTE:
Shlomo Benartzi
Founder and CEO, PensionPlus Professor Emeritus UCLA Anderson

Orlando Figes
Professor of History, Author of the Story of Russia Birkbeck College, University of London

Maria Grazia Testa
Organisational Transition and Transformation leader, founder of The Best Journey Ever, Inner Development Goals Global Coordinator Inner Development Goals & The Best Journey Ever

Marisa Hall
Head of Thinking Ahead Institute, WTW

2023 Sponsor

• BoFa Securities
• Mercer
• Rimes
• SS&C
• AXA Investment Managers
• New Forest
• World Gold Council
• British Embassy The Hague
• Royal London Asset Management
• Lake Hill
• MEAG Munich Re Company
• SMART
• Africa Finance Corporation
• Millenium Global Investment