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Summary
How much does a company depend on nature?
The speed and scale of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation is the highest in history. Biodiversity loss is the fourth most severe global risk over the next ten years. Businesses and financial institutions are seeking data intelligence to understand, manage and disclose the nature-related risks they face.
Join us as we share our latest data insights on nature-related risks in global markets, alongside practical approaches to measuring nature-related impacts and dependencies including:
- The exposure of regions and business activities to nature and biodiversity risk
- Measuring nature-related impacts and dependencies across assets, companies, and investment portfolios Integrating asset level data
- Informing nature positive decisions through the universal lens of the TNFD framework
Moderator
S&P Global Sustainable1
Sonia Kim
MD, Global Head of Product
Sonia Kim is Managing Director and Global Head of Product at Horizons (S1), S&P Global’s business focused on sustainability research and intelligence. Sonia leads the S1 Product organization, responsible for building solutions that help clients evaluate the sustainability of companies and financial assets.
Sonia Kim is Managing Director and Global Head of Product at Horizons (S1), S&P Global’s business focused on sustainability research and intelligence. Sonia leads the S1 Product organization, responsible for building solutions that help clients evaluate the sustainability of companies and financial assets. She oversees execution of product development and launched S&P’s first suite of data and analytics focused on climate risk and environmental impacts. Ms. Kim advises on M&A and strategic partnerships and has led product integration initiatives to combine capabilities from acquisitions of Trucost, SAM, and The Climate Service to advance client solutions in ESG data, emissions and financial risk and impact analysis. Ms. Kim chairs the Horizons Product Leadership Council at S&P Global and works to facilitate organizational alignment and collaboration in research, data strategy, and innovation across all divisions.
Ms. Kim joined S&P Global in 2009 and previously served in Market Intelligence as head of the product team responsible for delivering S&P Global Rating’s credit research and analysis.
Before joining S&P Global, Ms. Kim served in leadership roles in strategy, research, and product development at Moody’s and Fitch. Earlier, she worked as a financial analyst at Bear Stearns and a healthcare consulting firm.
Ms. Kim is a regular guest lecturer at NYU’s Stern School of Business and has spoken at industry events discussing practical applications of ESG data and tools. She is a member of the Women’s Bond Club and serves as an advisor and member for S&P Global’s employee resource groups including Asia Professionals for Excellence (APEX) and Women’s Initiative for Networking and Success (WINS). Ms. Kim holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College.
Speakers
S&P Global Sustainable1
Gautier Desme
Head of Data Innovation
Gautier Desme is Head of Data Innovation at Horizons, leading the development of new datasets on environmental and climate issues, such as the development of analytics that allow investors and businesses to quantify the nature-related risks in their portfolios and operations.
Gautier Desme is Head of Data Innovation at Horizons, leading the development of new datasets on environmental and climate issues, such as the development of analytics that allow investors and businesses to quantify the nature-related risks in their portfolios and operations. Prior to that, Gautier served in other leadership roles, leading on sovereign carbon risk, green bonds analytics and positive impact.
Gautier started his career at Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank in London, first as a credit structurer, then in commodities derivatives structuring, where he designed investment strategies and products across energy, metals and agriculture markets. He developed and issued the first EUTS carbon note in 2010, allowing investors to benefit from arbitrage opportunities in the EU Carbon Allowance market.
Gautier holds a master’s degree in Financial Markets from University Paris Dauphine, and a master’s degree in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London.
S&P Global Sustainable1
Divya Mankikar
Global Head of Market Insights
Divya Mankikar is the Global Head of Market Engagement – Sustainability. She brings over 15 years of sustainable investment experience to S&P Global. She is responsible for leading S&P Horizons’s efforts to engage with policy makers, regulators, standard setters, multi-lateral agencies, trade bodies and key market participants.
She joined S&P Global from CalPERS as Head of Sustainable Investment and Climate Strategy in the office of the CEO. Divya is a co-founder of Climate Action 100+ - a global initiative supported by investors representing over $54 trillion that seeks a low-carbon transition through collaborative engagement of systemically important carbon emitters.
She holds a BA/MA from Boston University in Energy and Environmental Analysis, an International MBA in finance from IE Business School in Madrid, and an MA in Law and Diplomacy focused on business and human rights law from Tufts University’s Fletcher School.
S&P Global Sustainable1
Frederic Samama
Head of Strategic Development
Frederic Samama is Head of Strategic Development at Horizons.
Samama started his career at JP Morgan in Paris. He then oversaw Corporate Equity Derivatives at Crédit Agricole Corporate Investment Banking in Paris and in New York. There, he developed and implemented the first international leveraged employee share purchase program, a system now widely used by French companies.
He then joined leading European asset manager, Amundi. There, he reorganized and developed the institutional clients coverage. He built Amundi’s green finance franchise by pioneering the first mainstream equity low-carbon indexes. He also launched the largest green bond fund of its time to finance green infrastructures in Emerging Markets.
Mr. Samama also co-launched the first coalition of institutional investors committed to decarbonizing their portfolios, which was selected to represent the entire finance industry during the COP21 Action Day.
Mr. Samama founded the Sovereign Wealth Fund Research Initiative in 2009, a pioneer academic center dedicated to SWFs and sustainability. He co-edited a book on long-term investing with Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Professor Patrick Bolton and has published numerous papers on green finance (e.g., “The Green Swan, central banking and financial stability in the age of climate change”, “Hedging Climate Risk”). He is currently a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris.
Mr. Samama is regularly invited to comment publicly on ESG and climate change including before the US Senate.
His philanthropic activities include support for organizations such as the NGO Positive Planet, which he presided in the US between 2009 and 2013.
Mr. Samama is a member of the Scientific Committee of the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR). He has been appointed to the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance managed by Lord Stern. He is a member of the One Planet Lab and has advised the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
PhD in Economics (Paris Dauphine University-PSL), MA in Philosophy (Pantheon-Sorbonne University), Stanford Executive Program.
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