Portfolio Manager, Man Group

Christina Bastin is a credit portfolio manager at Man Group.
Christina joined Man Group in January 2023. Before that, she was at Muzinich, where she was Portfolio Manager for the Asia Credit Opportunities Fund. Christina has held various positions within the credit teams of Deutsche Bank, Schroders Investment Management and Commerzbank. She began her career during the Asian Crisis in 1996.
Christina holds a BA in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of London. She was awarded the Yamamuro Trust Foundation Scholarship for an International Politics programme at Keio University, Tokyo.

Associate Director, Head of Sustainable Finance Policy, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Russell Bishop is Head of Sustainable Finance Policy at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). As part of the Climate Strategy and Delivery Department Russell oversees the design and implementation of the Banks sustainable finance approaches including those for Paris Agreement alignment and green finance attribution. Prior to joining the EBRD Russell led the low-income country programme of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate as a Senior Research Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute; worked as a Senior Economist at the Global Green Growth Institute (where he worked with the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s Office to prepare the countries national development plan); and held roles in the UK Civil Service at Her Majesties Revenue and Customs, The Ministry of Justice and The Committee on Climate Change.

Chief Investment Officer for Responsible Investment, Chair of the Responsible Investment Committee, Man Group

Robert (‘Rob’) Furdak is Chief Investment Officer for Responsible Investment (RI) of Man Group. He oversees all aspects of Responsible Investing across Man Group’s five investment engines including RI research, stewardship, and regulatory implementation. Rob serves as the chairman of the Man Group Responsible Investment Committee. He has published numerous articles on a variety of RI topics.
Rob was previously the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Man Numeric and Chairman of Man Numeric’s Investment Committee. In that position, Rob oversaw all aspects of the investment process and led the development of Numeric’s proprietary ESG model. Rob joined Man Numeric in 1997 as Director of International Strategies and designed and launched Numeric’s first non-US strategies. Before joining Man Numeric, Rob was a Principal in the Active International Group at State Street Global Advisors. During his eight years there, Rob performed global quantitative research and was the principal architect of State Street’s active emerging markets investment process. Previously, Rob worked at Harvard Management Company.
Rob holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago. He is also a CFA Charterholder.

Anna-Liisa Goggs joined CREO in January 2020 as Regional President, EMEA. As a successful entrepreneur dedicated to supporting impact businesses she is passionate about leveraging networks and partnerships to help scale climate solutions and broaden climate finance. Prior to joining CREO, Anna-Liisa developed and managed a flourishing results-focused curriculum and investor matching programme for over 250 social enterprises in the Middle East involved in health, climate and education sectors, among others. Alongside this, Anna-Liisa is a highly experienced corporate lawyer, accomplished in corporate finance transactions, M&A activity and IPOs. She has also supported several large family businesses as in-house counsel and helped a UAE family-owned conglomerate set up a foundation and develop ESG investment strategies. Anna-Liisa holds an MBA and BA Law with French. She is based in London.

Climate Scientist, Man Numeric

Matt Goldklang is a climate scientist at Man Numeric.
Matt joined Man Numeric in 2021. Prior to Man Numeric, he worked in climate risk analytics at Rhodium Group, where he gained experience working with climate impact modeling.
Matt received a bachelor’s degree in geology and geophysics and a certificate in energy studies from Yale University. He later received a master’s degree in climate change from the University of Copenhagen, where he worked on climate change impacts and machine learning research.

Caroline Harrison is the Director of Technical Development at Climate Bonds Initiative (Climate Bonds) in London overseeing the work of the Taxonomy, Research, Policy, Standards, Europe, China, and Resilience teams. Caroline has been working with Climate Bonds since 2016, and as a research analyst, developed the greenium concept. Caroline led the research output of Climate Bonds, including its flagship global and regional State of the Markets reports, and stakeholder survey series.

Prior to working at Climate Bonds, Caroline was employed by ASSET4 in a technical and business development role, and at Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley as a fixed income research analyst.

Caroline graduated from UCL with a degree in Italian and Business Studies.

Vanessa is leading the UK Government’s Transition Finance Market Review and is a board member of UK Export Finance and chair of the UK Export Guarantee Advisory Group. Vanessa led Linklaters’ sustainability practice until her retirement in 2023 and still consults for the firm.
 

Richard Manley, Chief Sustainability Officer, CPP Investments

As Chief Sustainability Officer, Richard is responsible for CPP Investments’ approach to sustainability at the enterprise level. He works with our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Financial Officer to ensure a global, cross-enterprise approach to sustainability-related risks and opportunities that contribute to superior long-term returns.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2019, Richard spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, where he served most recently as the Global Head of Thematic Equity and ESG Research, and Co-Head of EMEA Equity Research. Previously, he held senior positions at Merrill Lynch, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and Paribas Capital Markets.

Richard is Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Investor Advisory Group, a member of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT). He is also a frequent contributor of novel thought leadership to CPP Investments Insights Institute.

Richard holds a Graduado Superior/BA (Hons) in European Business Administration from ICADE in Madrid.

Philip is Senior Sustainability Adviser at Formue, Norway’s largest independent wealth manager. Prior to this he established the Financial Services team at UK consultancy Carbon Intelligence (now part of Accenture) and was Managing Director at Bankers without Boundaries, a not-for-profit working in partnership with EU Climate-KIC projects.

Before focusing on sustainability, Philip was a global equity fund manager at AP1 (one of the Swedish state pension funds), and survived 12 years on the sellside in London as a consumer sector specialist (JP Morgan, Lehman, Citi).

Head of Responsible Investment Research, Man Group

Emmanuel Normant, French citizen, is graduated as engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. Before joining Saint-Gobain, he worked for the French Ministry in charge of environment. Since 2002, he works for Saint-Gobain, mostly within the Construction Product Sector, in Brazil between 2002 and 2005, in China between 2005 and 2012, in France since then. In Asia, after having been in charge of the development of the pipelines activity for China, he took over the responsibility of General Delegate for Asia-Pacific for the Saint-Gobain Group. Between 2012 and 2016, Emmanuel Normant was President of the insulation activity of Saint-Gobain, the worldwide leader for sustainable insulation solutions. He has been appointed in May 2016 as Vice President for sustainable development for the Saint-Gobain Group.

Brett leads the index investing workstream Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) coalition. Prior to GFANZ, Brett worked at Blackrock where his cross-functional team was responsible for driving new product innovations and product launches, partnering with fixed income broker/dealers, and developing relationships with new and existing institutional and discretionary wealth investors for fixed income products. Previously at Nomura, he was a Managing Director leading the distribution efforts for asset-backed securities as well as illiquid securities in Europe. Prior to Nomura, he spent the majority of his financial services career with Lehman Brothers in London. Mr. Olson spent five years in manufacturing in the US, Germany and Italy before he attended business school.

Jennifer is a Partner in the investment consulting practice within Wealth Solutions. She advises a number of UK institutional investors ranging from £750m to £20bn (the majority of which are not-for-profit funds). Whilst she lives in Scotland, she spends a lot of time in London with her clients and colleagues. She holds a senior role in Aon’s Responsible Investment team, helping institutional investors to align their investment strategy with their principles.

Before joining Aon in 2017, Jennifer was a fund manager, where she was responsible for portfolio construction and management of long-only bespoke portfolios for pension funds, charities, and endowment funds. Before this, she began her investment career as an analyst with Morgan Stanley’s private markets division.

A CFA Charterholder, she graduated with a Master’s degree in European Politics and Economics from the University of Glasgow, and competes internationally for Scotland in shotgun clay target shooting.

Climate Scientist, Man Group

Jane is a Climate Scientist on the Responsible Investment research team and works on a range of problems related to climate risk, adaptation, and decarbonisation.

Prior to joining Man Group in 2023, Jane was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying the response of precipitation extremes to warming. Previously, she completed a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, with a certificate in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Jane received a bachelor’s degree in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University.

Director for Strategy Development, Financial Services Agency, Government of Japan

Mr. Takada has been working as a government official for the Ministry of Finance (MOF) since 1995. He has had a wide range of experience in policy-making at the heart of the government including public finance, tax, trade policies and financial services. During over 20 years of his career he spent 5 years in the UK: study at Cambridge and LSE (1997-99), and secondment to HM Treasury (the UK finance ministry, 2003-06) where he worked on financial regulation, investment market policies and public spending.

In 2009, Mr. Takada became the first staff of the newly created National Policy Unit and worked in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Cabinet Secretariat as an architect of the new public finance framework and as a private advisor to the Prime Minister. After having held senior positions in the Finance Minister’s Secretariat responsible for policy coordination and public relations of the Ministry, he was seconded to the OECD, Paris, where he served as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Green Finance and Investment team, Environment Directorate, from 2015 to 2018.

After his return to Tokyo in 2018, Mr. Takada worked at several offices in the MOF and other parts of the government including the Climate Change Office at the Cabinet Secretariat (2021). From 2022, Mr. Takada serves as the Director for Strategy Development at the Financial Services Agency, responsible for financial market policies including promotion of international financial centres and sustainable finance.

Alongside his official jobs, in his private capacity, Mr. Takada launched the Green Finance Network Japan (GFNJ) in 2018 as its Secretary General. The GFNJ is an informal network that brings together key players on green finance in Japan from both public and private sectors and provides a platform for collaborating with international stakeholders.

Mr. Takada received a Bachelor degree in Law (University of Tokyo), a Master degree in Law (Cambridge University) and an MBA (Imperial College London).

Director of Research and Policy, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Perrine Toledano is the Director of Research and Policy overseeing the development of a coordinated, integrated, and impactful program of research across CCSI's thematic areas of interest. She also directs the Center’s work on Mining, Energy, and Climate Finance. She leads research, training, and advisory projects on economy-wide decarbonization pathways and the role of key actors in the energy transition: financing institutions, energy companies, and the mining sector. She also leads work on the governance of extractive industries including on fiscal regimes, financial modeling, shared use of mining, climate resilience and mitigation at mine sites, local content, revenue management, and optimal legal provisions for development benefits. She has led projects in DRC, Liberia, Paraguay, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Timor-Leste, and assisted many more government teams remotely. She is the co-editor of two volumes published by Columbia University Press: Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options and The New Frontiers of Sovereign Investment. She serves on the academic board of the Cambridge 1.5°C-aligned corporate bond index, on the technical working group of the Critical Raw Materials Climate Bonds Criteria, and on the IRMA Initiative for Responsible Mining expert working group on GHG Emissions and Climate Change. She also serves on the advisory board of the International Senior Lawyers Project's tax program, and she is part of the Panel of Experts advising on the Regional Economic Development strategy of Rio Tinto in Simandou (Guinea). Prior to joining CCSI, she worked as a consultant for several non-profit organizations, including the World Bank, DFID, and Revenue Watch Institute (now NRGI), and private sector companies, including Natixis Corporate Investment Bank and Ernst and Young. Her experience includes auditing, financial analysis, IT for capital markets, public policy evaluation, and cross-border project management. She has a Masters of Business Administration from ESSEC in Paris, France, and a Masters of Public Administration from Columbia University.