Viola Lutz
Senior Director, Climate Strategy
Moody's
Viola Lutz is Senior Director, Climate Strategy at Moody’s. Viola helps drive climate positioning across Moody’s with the goal to firmly establish the company and our offerings as a global leader in integrated climate risk analytics.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Viola was Executive Director, Head of Climate Solutions, at ISS ESG, the unit of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) that helps financial market participants to understand, measure, and act on climate-related risks and opportunities across all asset classes. Viola joined ISS in 2017, following its acquisition of the financial industry business of South Pole Group, where she was a member of the team that developed the world’s largest database of company-level climate change data and pioneered the development of leading, standardized investment climate screening tools. Viola was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30: European Finance list in 2020. She holds a Master of Public Affairs from Sciences Po Paris and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.
Viola is an avid improv theatre performer as well as a mountain sports and Yoga enthusiast.