Prerna joined S&P Global in May 2017 as a Director in the Product Specialist team for Credit Risk Solutions, leading efforts in South East Asia and Japan Full Bio

Prerna joined S&P Global in May 2017 as a Director in the Product Specialist team for Credit Risk Solutions, leading efforts in South East Asia and Japan. Previously she was at Fitch Ratings where she was part of the Business and Relationship Management team in Singapore managing new business initiatives for the corporate ratings business. Prior to that, she spent 2 years at Standard Chartered on the debt markets desk, where she assisted Indian corporates in tapping the Singapore debt markets. She also spent 7 years in J.P. Morgan’s investment banking team covering financial institution clients in India. Prerna is a certified Chartered Accountant from India. Minimize

Alban Pyanet is a Partner based in Oliver Wyman’s New York office with deep expertise in sustainability, climate change risk, and capital and risk management. Full Bio

Alban Pyanet is a Partner based in Oliver Wyman’s New York office with deep expertise in sustainability, climate change risk, and capital and risk management.

He helps financial institutions integrate climate related considerations into financial risk management practices such as climate scenario analysis and stress testing, underwriting, climate-related limits, and climate risk appetite. Most recently, Alban has been supporting systemically important financial institutions (SIFI) to meet regulatory expectations on climate risk (including the Bank of England’s PRA climate stress test exercise) and to implement the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

In addition to his consulting work, Alban leads the firm’s development of Climate Credit Analytics, a climate scenario analysis and credit analytics model suite, developed in collaboration with S&P Global. He also supported a working group of 16 global banks (convened by the UN Environment Program – Finance Initiative) to develop a methodology to assess climate risks and opportunities in banks’ corporate lending portfolio.

He has authored several publications on the topic of climate risk, is a frequent speaker at industry events, and serves on the finance panel of the SENSES project, a global expert working group convened by the climate science community to develop the new generation of climate scenarios.

Alban initially joined the Paris office of Oliver Wyman following his graduation from ESCP Europe and transferred to New York in 2013. Minimize

James McMahon founded The Climate Service with the vision that every economic decision on Earth should incorporate climate change. The company’s risk analytics software as a service gives investors and corporate managers the financial information they need to incorporate climate-related risk into their decisions. Full Bio

James McMahon founded The Climate Service with the vision that every economic decision on Earth should incorporate climate change. The company’s risk analytics software as a service gives investors and corporate managers the financial information they need to incorporate climate-related risk into their decisions.

McMahon began his career in global change by studying physics at Harvard University, and atmospheric chemistry at MIT under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Mario Molina.
McMahon went on to accumulate 10 years experience inside a multinational corporation, including managing Coca-Cola’s consumer marketing technology group. He then led three small technology firms as COO and CEO. He served for 6 years as Senior Advisor to the Director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. He was CEO of The Collider – a groundbreaking nonprofit innovation center for climate solutions.  Minimize