Anjalika has 20 years’ experience in economic research, political risk, and forecasting and analysis. In her current role, she manages TheCityUK’s economic research programme. She leads the team that produces the organisation’s in-house economic research, presents research and analysis externally, and writes TheCityUK’s economics blog. She also chairs the organisation’s internal Sustainability Co-ordination Committee. Before joining TheCityUK in 2014, Anjalika’s work focused predominantly on economics and politics in markets. She spent 12 years with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), holding a number of different roles in the company’s New York and London offices, including Manager of Country Reports (the EIU’s flagship publication). Anjalika also spent two years with the consultancy Eurasia Group, focusing on economic and political risk in South Asia. She has spoken at conferences in around a dozen countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas, and has appeared as a commentator and/or been quoted on leading international broadcast and print media. She is a member of the Alumni Advisory Board at Imperial College Business School and the Economics Advisory Board at the University of Sheffield, and is a Trustee of the charity All Stars London.

Dr Ben Caldecott is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

He is the inaugural Lombard Odier Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow of Sustainable Finance at the University of Oxford, the first ever endowed professorship of sustainable finance, and a Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel College.

Ben is also the founding Director and Principal Investigator of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI), established by UK Research and Innovation in 2021 as the national centre to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally.

Ben specialises in environment, energy, and sustainability issues and works at the intersection between finance, public policy, and the academic world, having held senior roles in each domain.

David has more than 20 years’ experience as a financial/business journalist, economist and entrepreneur, having worked for a number of prominent businesses including the Economist Group, Schroders, Dow Jones and Financial News. He has an intimate knowledge of family businesses, having edited CampdenFB and Campden FO, magazines for the global family enterprise community, and the EY Family Business Year Book. He also founded Wealth Bulletin, a website which he sold to Dow Jones. He is a graduate of London School of Economics and the School of Oriental & African Studies.

In 2015, he founded Family Capital (famcap.com), an online news, news analysis, and research publication that covers the global family enterprise world, with a particular focus on family offices. Family Capital is read by more than 20,000 readers weekly, with at least 1,000 of those readers senior managers at single-family offices.

Taeun Kwon is the Head of Wealth Manager Programs at the CSP, where she oversees industry research such as the Sustainable Investing Capabilities of Private Banks report and is in charge of diffusing that knowledge through executive education programs and workshops.

Before CSP, Taeun had launched her own ethical t-shirt brand during her undergraduate studies and afterwards, worked in strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group, brand consulting at TBWA\ and impact consulting at Impact Square for 3.5 years

Jon Moulton is a Corporate Financier and a fellow of the Institute for Turnaround Professionals. He has vast experience of turnarounds, having invested in them for 30 years with considerable success. Jon is currently a member of the board of the Corporate Finance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Chairman of FinnCap, the major AIM broker, The International Stock Exchange and Anti-Microbial Research Limited. He also chairs the Better Capital funds and Greensphere, an alternative energy infrastructure fund.

Jon is a very active private investor with a large and diverse portfolio and has been working in private equity since 1979. He regularly writes, broadcasts and speaks on corporate finance and financial matters. He is a director of the think tank, The Centre for Policy Studies. Jon is also an honorary fellow of University College London and a trustee of the UK Stem Cell Foundation and of his own medical research charity, which funds clinical trials.

Former Managing Partner of Alchemy, Jon’s career has also included spells running Permira, CVC UK and the buy-out group of Apax, as well as being a director of numerous public and private companies including Ashmore PLC. He was also a member of the board of the £3.8 billion UK Government Regional Growth Fund.

Sabine Döbeli has worked in sustainable finance for more 20 years. After building up Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF), an organisation aiming to make Switzerland a leading centre in sustainable finance, she took over the role as CEO in 2014.

Previously, she was Head of Corporate Sustainability Management at Vontobel, where she was responsible for coordinating sustainability topics at group level and preparing sustainable investment services. At Zürcher Kantonalbank, she built up the sustainability research unit within the financial analysis department and was involved in the launch of various sustainable investment products.

Sabine holds a Masters in Environmental Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and completed a post-graduate degree in Business Administration and Marketing at the University of Basel. She is a member of the Advisory Committee on International Cooperation of the Swiss Federal Council, of the research advisory council of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment and of the advisory councils of the Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance and Stiftung Drittes Millenium.

Richard is Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at Earth Capital Ltd, an early-stage growth investment manager co-founded by Stephen Lansdown CBE and Gordon Power. ECL invests in cleantech companies that address the challenges of climate change across the energy, food, and water sectors and provide access to co-investment opportunities to a range of investors including family offices and UHNWI’s. Richard was the creator of ECL’s award-winning Earth Dividend™ portfolio management tool, which provides a holistic overview of an investment’s contribution to sustainable development and focuses on the connection between positive impact and commercial value, ensuring continuous performance improvement.

Richard has spent over 35 years in international banking. In his 20 years with ABN AMRO, he was Head of UK Structured Finance and Corporate Banking and sat on the UK Executive and Credit Committees. As Global Head of Project Finance, he was responsible for ABN AMRO’s award-winning business franchises in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and Brazil. In this role he was also instrumental in the creation of the Equator Principles, a market recognised standard for managing environmental and social risk issues in project financing.

Latterly, as Global Head of Sustainability, he chaired the group’s Sustainability Council and developed the bank’s strategy on climate change and the carbon markets. He is a former Chair of the UNEP Finance Initiative, a former Steering Committee member of Renewable Energy Networks for the 21st Century and external board member of Forest Renewables (part of the Forestry Commission in Scotland).

Richard is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and holds a BA and MBA from Durham University. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Triodos Bank UK and a Senior Adviser to the Earth Security Group.

Gurpreet Manku is the BVCA’s Deputy Director General and Director of Policy, and a BVCA board member. She is responsible for leading the BVCA’s response to a wide range of policy challenges facing the industry from a legal, tax, reporting and regulatory perspective, both in the UK and Europe (including Brexit). Gurpreet is a board member for the Cost Transparency Initiative and is a member of the coalition that developed the Wates corporate governance principles for large private companies. She is also the executive liaison to the Private Equity Reporting Group, the body responsible for monitoring the industry’s compliance with the Walker Guidelines on Transparency and Disclosure. Gurpreet is passionate about improving diversity within the venture capital and private equity industry and leads the BVCA’s efforts to support firms. Before joining the BVCA she worked at Deloitte LLP and specialised in advising private equity funds and their managers. Gurpreet studied at the London School of Economics and is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Divya Seshamani is an investor with more 20 years of private equity experience.

As Managing Partner of Greensphere Capital, she manages funds that invest in sustainable companies and projects in areas such as renewable energy, resilient infrastructure, water, resource and energy efficiency.

Prior to Greensphere, Ms Seshamani was a Partner at TPG, a San Francisco-based Private Equity firm. Ms Seshamani has also held investment roles in Special Investments at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Unilever Ventures, The Parthenon Group and Goldman Sachs.

Ms Seshamani is a Non-Executive Board Member at Forterra PLC, at Duranta Energy (an effluent treatment and biogas company) and Western Forestry and Energy (a sustainable forestry and energy business). She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and served for two consecutive terms on the Council of Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Relations). She was appointed by the Secretary of State to Her Majesty’s Government Council of Sustainable Business where she leads the Net-Zero Carbon initiative.

Ben McQuhae is a founding partner of GPS McQuhae LLP, a Hong Kong-based law firm committed to supporting sustainable businesses and investments. Ben is a graduate of the University of Exeter and The College of Law and is qualified in England and Hong Kong. Ben is an industry leading international transactional lawyer with a passion for green finance, sustainable development projects, energy and innovation.

Ben is a committed and influential figure in green and sustainable finance in Hong Kong, and holds the following positions:

VP & Special Advisor to the Chairman, Hong Kong Green Finance Association

Hong Kong representative and Steering Committee Member, United Nations Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) network

Member, United Nations ESCAP Sustainable Business Network

Founder and Co-chair, Hong Kong Green Finance Task Force, prior to establishment HKGFA