Guernsey is to host an array of international speakers at its first Sustainable Finance Week in June.
Sustainable Finance Week will bring together sustainable finance specialists and private wealth and family office professionals, advisers and private investors from Europe, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Guernsey, for an online event from 9-11 June.
The event will focus on financing sustainability through private wealth and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on climate finance.
The physical event was to have been held in Guernsey, but has been moved online because of restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The speakers include:
• Ben Caldecott, Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme, and Strategic Adviser to the UK Green Finance Initiative’s Chief Executive
• Richard Burrett, Chief Sustainability Officer to fund manager Earth Capital, Fellow at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and former Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative
• Gurpreet Manku, Deputy Director General and Head of Policy at the British Venture Capital Association
• Divya Seshamani, Managing Partner of Greensphere and a member of the UK Government’s Council of Sustainable Business, where she leads the Net-Zero Carbon initiative
• Ben McQuhae, Founder and Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Green Finance Task Force
• Stephen Nolan, Managing Director of the Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) Network
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