S&P Global Sustainable1 is proud to be Gold Sponsor of PRI in Person, where we will convene an official side event and share thought leadership on the mainstage. During the event, we will host a two hour side event, Financing a Decarbonized Global Market, on 4 November from 10:30am-12:30pm. Learn more and register below.
Then find us at Climate Action in the Innovation Zone where we will be hosting focused discussion groups in the run up to COP30.
Explore our programming throughout the week in São Paulo, Brazil, below.
Thought Leaders Joining Financing a Decarbonized Global Market
Norinchukan Bank
Norio Hida
Counsellor on Global Strategy to the President and Board of Directors
Global Green Growth Institute
Jacob Hidrowoh Eguiguren
SPA Sustainable Finance
Church Commissioners of England
Laura Moss-Bromage
Planet Lead
Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
Emily McKenzie
Technical Director
B3
Andre Veiga Milanez
Chief Financial, Corporate, and Investor Relations Officer
Suzano
Helena Pavese
Head of Institutional Sustainability
Ninety One
Daisy Streatfeild
Sustainability Director
Financing a Decarbonized Global Market Agenda
On 4 November from 10:30am-12:30pm
Meet the S&P Global Team Onsite
These thought leaders will be joining the conversations in São Paulo.
S&P Global Ratings
Jadson Andrade
Associate Director, Market Outreach
S&P Global Ratings
Beth Burks
Director, Sustainable Finance Markets
Beth is one of S&P Global’s team of delegates that participates annually in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference of parties (UNFCCC COP). Her research primarily focuses on net zero targets, water risk, and the social implications of climate change. Investment Week nominated her paper on spatial finance in the Thought Leadership category of its Sustainable & ESG Investments Awards 2020. This paper quantitatively linked satellite data on ecosystems to the debt metrics of water utilities in the United States. She holds an MSc Geographical Information Science from Birkbeck College, and a BSc Mathematics from Imperial College in London. Born to British parents, she grew up in Belgium and South Korea.
S&P Global Ratings
María Consuelo Pérez Cavallazzi
Head, LatAm Sales
María es Directora General de S&P Global Ratings México y de BRC Ratings S&P Global - Colombia y Panamá, basada en la Ciudad de México.
María es responsable de la operación en las oficinas de México y Colombia, y también dirige el equipo comercial y las relaciones comerciales en México, Centroamérica, El Caribe y Colombia. María tiene más de 13 años de experiencia en Agencias de Calificación Crediticia tanto en el área analítica como en la comercial. Asimismo, cuenta con experiencia en análisis de riesgo de crédito y de inversiones en entidades financieras.
María tiene una Licenciatura en Administración de Empresas de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Colombia, un diploma de posgrado en Finanzas Corporativas de CESA, en Bogotá, Colombia, también curso de “Sustainable Business Strategy” de Harvard Business School Online.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Raphael Costa
Commercial Team Lead
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Felipe Gouvea
Associate, Credit & Risk Solutions
S&P Global Energy
Lindsey Hall
Global Head of Sustainability Thought Leadership
Co-Head, S&P Global Sustainability Research Lab
Lindsey Hall is Head of ESG Thought Leadership at S&P Global Horizons, where she co-hosts the ESG Insider podcast and is a steering member of S&P Global's Diversity Research Lab.
She got her start in financial journalism writing for various Financial Times publications in London before joining SNL Financial in 2010, where she spent a decade covering financial news and regulation as a reporter and editor.
Lindsey holds a Masters from the London School of Economics.
S&P Global Ratings
Rafael Janequine
Director, Sustainable Finance
S&P Global Energy
Jorge Jardim
Head of Sales, Latin America
S&P Global
Davis Knutson
Head of Industry Outreach
S&P Global Sustainable1
Sandrely Kümmer
Sustainability Director - BRAZIL
S&P Global Ratings
Victor Hazell Laudisio
Global Nature Specialist, Sustainability Research and Methodologies
S&P Global Ratings
Bernard de Longevialle
Managing Director Global Head of Sustainable Finance
Bernard de Longevialle is Global Head of Sustainable Finance for S&P Global Ratings.
Bernard is in charge of leading the execution of S&G Global Ratings Sustainable Finance Strategy with regard both to Sustainable Finance Products such as Green Evaluation or ESG Evaluation, as well as Credit Ratings. Sustainable Finance Expert Teams work in close collaboration with Rating analysts across regions.
Bernard joined the company in 1998 and has been responsible for a number of Managerial roles in both developed and developing markets. The most recent ones being: Head of Financial Services & Sovereign IPF Ratings for the EMEA region until September 2019; Head of Financial Services Ratings for EEMEA between 2010 and 2013, for North America from 2013 until July 2016 and for EMEA from August 2016 until January 2018, when this role was combined with the Sovereign and Public Finance responsibility,
Between 2005 until 2010 Bernard was responsible for various transversal responsibilities, including being one of the leading contributor to new rating criteria for banks, heading the team in charge of Basel regulation analysis as well as of the development of S&P Global Ratings’ approach to banks risk adjusted capital adequacy. He was based in Milan from 2000 until 2003 where he established a team of bank analysts responsible for Italian banks ratings.
Prior joining the company, He worked five years at the Commission Bancaire (French Banking Regulator). He also spent two years at UCB, a mortgage specialist (Group Paribas), including a year and a half in Italy in 1992 and 1993.
He has a master degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), and also completed a three-year legal studies program at the University of Nanterre (Licence en droit). From October 1997 until June 2000 he was Maître de Conference (lecturer) in economics at IEP.
S&P Global Sustainable1
Bob MacKnight
Head of Product & Services
Bob MacKnight is the Head of Product & Services at S&P Global Horizons, where he leads a team focused on building software, analytics, and data solutions to help companies embed sustainability metrics into their strategic planning, investment, and regulatory reporting activities. He serves on the Horizons Leadership Team and is responsible for developing and executing the strategy and vision for Horizons’s product and services offerings.
Bob previously led the Climate & Nature Risk product team in Horizons and has deep expertise in climate risk and the energy transition space. Prior to joining Horizons, he held leadership roles at S&P Global Energy focusing on the development of energy value chain emissions quantification and energy transition analytics solutions.
Earlier in his career he held roles leading consulting and research initiatives in the energy practices of IHS Markit and PFC Energy.
Bob holds a BS and an MS in Earth Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
S&P Global
Lynn Maxwell
Global Head of Strategic Client Engagement
Lynn is the Global Head, Strategic Client Engagement in the Chief Client Office of S&P Global. She is responsible for establishing and leading S&P Global’s strategic client engagement team to curate theme-based, cross-divisional insights narratives, executive client engagement and go-to-market motions for multi-product adoption and commercial growth. Her team also manages collaboration with influential industry organisations.
Lynn was previously the Chief Commercial Officer for S&P Global Ratings. She led the global relationship management, business origination, commercial strategy, marketing, product and commercial operations teams. Her teams focused on providing high quality customer coverage and product development services for ratings and non-ratings credit products, including sustainability and credit analysis products, data and models.
Before joining S&P, Lynn spent 20 years in debt capital markets as MD, Global Head of Structured Finance Strategy and Global Head of Securitisation at HSBC and EMEA Head of Flow Securitisation at BNP Paribas. Prior to her banking career, Lynn was a finance law solicitor at Clifford Chance in London.
Lynn is a regular contributor on panels and industry working groups on capital markets topics and sustainable finance. She is a past member of ICMA’s Sustainability Advisory Committee and working group on green securitisation, past Chair of AFME’s Securitisation Board and a Trustee of 1001fontaines UK, a clean drinking water charity operating in emerging markets. Lynn was selected as Financial News’ 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance 2023.
Lynn is a Canadian and English qualified lawyer and practiced law at Clifford Chance, London and Stikeman, Elliott, Toronto/Budapest. Lynn holds a B.A. (Hons, Political Science, McGill University), LL.B. (U of Western Ontario) and a D.E.A. (Droit Public, Paris II Panthéon-Sorbonne).
S&P Global Energy
Chris Perceval
Global Head of Sustainability Market Engagement
S&P Global Sustainable1
Paz Queralto
Sustainability Director - LATAM
Paz Queralto es la líder regional de soluciones de sostenibilidad para América Latina en Horizons de S&P Global. Con una vasta experiencia en diagnóstico de clientes, Paz es especialista en la diversa gama de productos que ofrece Horizons, dirigidos a instituciones financieras y corporaciones. Anteriormente, se desempeñó como consultora, asesorando a fondos de inversión en la integración de factores ESG en diversas clases de activos y desarrollando estrategias de financiamiento sostenible, incluyendo carteras de bonos verdes. Además, ha trabajado con organismos internacionales como PNUD, WB, IDB y gobiernos, y actualmente participa en un grupo de trabajo de la CEPAL y otras instituciones analizando la relación entre deuda, clima y naturaleza. Paz es economista y posee un máster en desarrollo económico de la London School of Economics, y es CFA ESG.
S&P Dow Jones Indices
Paulo Eduardo Sampaio
Sr Director – Latin America (South Cone)
Paulo Eduardo de Souza Sampaio is the Senior Director of Sales for Latin America (Southern Cone) at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), covering Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
Before joining S&P DJI, Paulo worked as a consultant for international companies focused on capital markets and interested in developing business in Brazil, such as S&P DJI LLC and PIP (Proveedor Integral de Precios) in Mexico.
He also served as an independent board member of CETIP S.A. Mercados Organizados until June 2012 and as Superintendent of Products and Services at ANBIMA (Brazilian Association of Financial and Capital Market Entities). Additionally, he worked as General Superintendent of ANDIMA (National Association of Financial Market Institutions) for 15 years.
Paulo holds a degree in Economics from PUC-RJ (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro).
S&P Global Energy
Rodrigo Silva
Senior Commercial Manager
S&P Global Sustainable1
Dr. Terence Thompson
Chief Science Officer, S&P Global Climate Center of Excellence
S&P Global Sustainable1
Harry Tong
Head of AI Product & Portfolio
Harry Tong is Head of AI Product & Portfolio at S&P Global Sustainable1
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Isabella Vallory
Associate Director, Credit and Risk Solutions
Isabella Vallory se unió a S&P Global Market Intelligence en 2014. Es Especialista en Crédito en el Departamento de Soluciones de Riesgo Crediticio, donde ofrece soluciones de gestión de riesgo climático y crediticio para instituciones de diferentes tamaños y especialidades, con un enfoque principal en la región de las Américas. Isabella ha liderado numerosos proyectos de compromiso con clientes, enfocados en el desarrollo de sistemas internos de calificación de riesgos, validación de calificaciones de riesgo y la implementación de numerosas Credit Assessment Scorecards que abarcan la mayoría de las principales clases de activos. La Sra. Vallory ayuda a los clientes a identificar riesgos y oportunidades relacionados con el riesgo climático.
Antes de este rol, se centró en el desarrollo de productos, innovación analítica y liderazgo de pensamiento para el segmento de finanzas públicas en EE. UU. Isabella es reconocida por su nivel galardonado de servicio al cliente, liderazgo de pensamiento y gestión de proyectos.
La Sra. Vallory posee un Sustainability and Climate Risk certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Tiene un curso de Enseñanza de Posgrado y una Licenciatura en Asuntos Internacionales, summa cum laude, de la Universidad de Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina), donde también ha trabajado como Profesora Asociada en Economía/ Finanzas Internacionales.
S&P Global Energy
Thomas Yagel
Head of Sustainable1
Prior to leading Sustainable1, Thomas oversaw the Corporate business within Market Intelligence for six years, building on a career at S&P Global that began in 2007. Earlier in his career, he spent a decade in software product development and consulting, giving him a distinctive blend of technical depth and commercial perspective.
Thomas holds an M.B.A. with honors in finance and accounting from New York University Stern School of Business and a B.S. in physics from the University of Virginia.
PRI in Person Events and Engagements
| Activation | Title | Date | Time | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official Hosted PRI Side Event | Financing a Decarbonized Global Market Event | Tuesday, 4 November | 10:30am-12:30pm | Register Here. |
| Exhibition Booth | Demos and Data Wall Displays | 4-6 November | All Day | B07. |
| Mainstage Thought Leadership | Session: What next for the evolving reporting and disclosures landscape? | Thursday, 6 November | 9:45 – 10:45am | Lindsey Hall, Global Head of Thought Leadership, will join the conversation. |
| VIP Dinner | Integrating Climate Science into Decision Ready Financial Models | Thursday, 6 November | 6:30pm | Invitation Only. |
FAQ
Climate Action Innovation Zone Events
| Activation | Title | Date | Time | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roundtable | Decarbonization Pathways in the Agri-Food Industries | Thursday, 6 November | 12:30-2:00pm | Register Here. |
| Roundtable | Energy, Food, and Water: The Climate Nexus of Resilience | Friday, 7 November | 12:30-2:00pm | Register Here. |
Contact us
If you have any questions about S&P Global’s programming, please reach out to spglobalevents@spglobal.com.