The 'S' in ESG Investor Roundtable
In-Person | London
The session will include a 30 minute presentation from Moody’s ESG experts and the City Mental Health Association covering key topics such as what double materiality means for investors, how understanding social issues supports robust decision-making, and why wellbeing should be considered a critical risk factor. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion.
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SpeakersAndrea Blackman Managing Director, Global Head of ESG Moody's ESG Solutions
Emilie Béral Head of Methodology Moody's ESG Solutions
Julia Haake Managing Director - Market Strategy Moody's ESG Solutions
Henrietta Jowitt Advisor MindForward Alliance
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Andrea Blackman leads Moody’s ESG Solutions Group, which houses Moody’s ESG and Sustainable Finance capabilities and works alongside Moody's Investors Service (MIS), the rating agency, and Moody's Analytics (MA), a provider of financial information platforms and risk analytics solutions, to deliver a comprehensive suite of best-in-class ESG solutions to the market.
Andrea has over 30 years’ experience in financial services, including leadership roles with banks, asset managers and vendors, harnessing financial and technology innovation to build successful businesses. In her former role as Managing Director in Moody’s Analytics, Andrea led the transformation of CreditView, Moody’s flagship research, data and analytics platform, into the leading solution serving credit market professionals worldwide.
Andrea sits on the Executive Diversity and Inclusion Council for Moody’s Corporation and supports the work of the Moody’s Foundation. She is the Executive co-sponsor Moody’s Minds Employee Resource Groups, and is a member of the 30% Club in the UK.
Emilie Béral is Head of Methodology at Moody’s ESG Solutions. Emilie has over 18 years of experience in the ESG space. As part of the leadership team at Vigeo-Eiris, she oversaw the activities of ESG analysts, the expansion of global research operations, the development of new products and methodologies as well as the growth of new sustainable finance solutions for issuers (green, social, sustainability bonds, sustainability linked bonds and loans). Today, Emilie oversees the development of ESG methodologies for Moody’s ESG Solutions. Emilie sits as a member of the Board of Finance for Tomorrow, of the Advisory Board of Nadsaq Sustainable Bond Network, and is a member of the EFRAG Project Task Force on reporting of non-financial risks and opportunities and linkage to the business model. She has a graduated as a Chemical engineer (ENSC Rennes, France) and specialized afterwards on Environmental Measurement Techniques (Chalmers University, Sweden) and in Sustainable Development Management (HEC business school, France).
Julia Haake, a trained economist with a PhD from Versailles University in France, is Managing Director, Market Strategy at Moody’s ESG Solutions. She has joined Moody’s in December 2021, joining from ISS and formerly oekom research (acquired by ISS in 2018), where she was part of the ESG business unit’s leadership team and, over the last ten years, held various positions in business development, client coverage, stewardship and engagement. Julia has been working in Sustainability, CSR and ESG since 1993, when she started as a researcher, first at the German Wuppertal Institute and then at Versailles University in France, where she completed her PhD thesis in Environmental Economics. She later joined the French consulting firm O2 France as a consultant advising corporates on environmental and sustainability strategy and environmentally friendly product design. From 2003 to 2008 she contributed to building and rolling out the French postal operator Groupe La Poste’s CSR strategy, before joining the global environmental NGO WWF, where her role was to lead the Paris-based team in charge with managing corporate relations, sustainability partnerships and corporate fundraising.
In 2019, Julia has been elected member of the board of the French Sustainable Investment Forum (FIR) and appointed member of the French market regulator’s (Autorité des Marches Financiers) Sustainable Finance Commission. She is also co-author of the book "L'Entreprise Légère", written with Basile Gueorguievsky, published by Delachaux & Niestlé in 2010.
Henrietta is a senior business leader with more than three decades’ commercial experience driving growth and transformation for organisations. She has worked across ESG for over 20 years, embedding it into risk management, business strategy and new products in business and financial services organisations. She is an advisor to MindForward Alliance, a not-for-profit that is business led, focussed on the mental health and wellbeing of employees globally. Henrietta holds several non-executive director roles as an iNED for Franklin Templeton Fund Management, a Trustee for arts organisation Opera North and an advisor to the Principle of Green Templeton College, Oxford University, where she is an Associate Fellow. She has an MA from Oxford University where she read Natural Sciences.