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Désirée Lucchese

Sustainability Solutions Specialist

Désirée is a sustainability and responsible investment specialist. As a solutions specialist, she consults with customers about S&P Global’s suite of sustainability services and helps them reach their business goals and requirements. Désirée’s experience spans from corporate sustainability strategy development and implementation to green building accreditations, integrated infrastructure planning and climate-related disclosures. With a background in environmental science and regulation, Désirée has worked with a large institutional client base consulting on ESG integration and ESG & climate risk data solutions. From 2021-2023, she worked as the Head of ESG for an award-winning ethical fund in Australia, where she was responsible for both ESG integration and stewardship activities with portfolio holdings. Désirée is published and quoted in publications such as Responsible Investor, Portfolio Institutional UK, Financial Standard and the AFR/The Age. She is an Honorary Associate of the UTS Finance Department of UTS Business School, an industry mentor with the Banking and Finance Oath initiative and, in 2022 and 2023, she mentored for RMIT University’s Future Skills course in Sustainability and Social Impact.