Representative Lord Mayor Alderman Robert Hughes-Penney
Alderman Hughes-Penney was born in Brazil and spent some of his childhood in South Africa before returning to the UK when he attended the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School. After graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University and RMA Sandhurst Robert served in the army in Canada, Germany and the UK. He started work in the City in 1993 […]
Dr. Ben Caldecott
Dr Ben Caldecott is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. At the University of Oxford, he is the inaugural Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance, the first ever endowed professorship of sustainable finance, and a Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. […]
Jinny Yan
Jinny Yan is Managing Director, Chief China Economist, China Markets Strategy, Global Markets Fixed Income, Currencies, and Equities, ICBC Standard Bank. Prior to joining ICBC Standard Bank to lead China markets strategy and research, Jinny was a London-based Senior Economist at Standard Chartered Bank. She covered key China-Europe macro topics with a focus on Renminbi […]
John McLean OBE
John’s journey in China started in 1999, where he established a manufacturing and retail business in Shanghai and has since played a key role in promoting UK-China trade and investment, fostering people-to-people exchanges and strengthening bilateral relations. A Chartered Accountant by profession, John began his career with PwC (Coopers & Lybrand) in London and New […]
Anthony H Yadgaroff
Anthony is the founder of Apex Investment Advisers which advises a number of Local Government Pension Schemes on over £100 billion of assets, specialising in Alternatives, Illiquid and Private Markets investments. Anthony was also the founder of Allenbridge Group which he set up in 1984 and had over 25,000 private clients when it was sold […]
Baroness Nicola Blackwood
Nicola is a leader in science and entrepreneurship. She is a member of the House of Lords, and Chair of Genomics England and Oxford University Innovation. She is also a Board member of the biotechnology company, BioNTech and investment fund RTW Biotech Opportunities. Nicola served as a Minister in the UK Government Department for Health […]
Bella Landymore
Bella started working for the Impact Investing Institute as Policy Director at its launch in November 2019. She leads several of the Institute’s projects, particularly in the areas of policy, regulation, and pensions. Bella joined the Institute from the UK government’s Inclusive Economy Unit, where she was a Senior Policy Advisor on impact investing. In […]
Begna Gebreyes
Begna Gebreyes is Head of Heavy Industries, Telecoms & Technology (HITT) at Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). As Head of HITT, he oversees a portfolio of US$1 billion in debt and equity investments. He has over 20 years experience of investment banking and private equity across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. For the […]
Bryan Zhang
Bryan is an impact-driven co-founder, researcher, board-level advisor, independent chair and NED with expertise in technology-enabled financial innovation and related policy, regulatory, supervisory and infrastructure innovation. He is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. The CCAF conducts FinTech market […]
Emma Lovett
Emma Lovett is the Credit Lead for the Markets Distributed Ledger Technology team at J.P. Morgan. She is actively working on developing capabilities to drive the evolution of Digital Assets using Blockchain technology within the Credit Markets where it complements existing frameworks and supports clients’ needs. Emma is also Co-Chair of the International Capital Market’s […]
