Nature-related risk: measurement, governance and financial system response

Maud Abdelli

Initiative Lead, Greening Financial Regulation, Sustainable Finance

WWF

Elías Albagli

Director, Monetary Policy

Banco Central de Chile

Jennifer Chang

Vice President, Senior Credit Officer

Moody’s Sustainable Finance Credit Group

Jennifer Chang is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer in Moody’s Sustainable Finance Credit Group, with a primary focus on climate risk and credit, encompassing physical climate and transition risks.
Prior to her current role, Jennifer was a senior analyst and the Public Power Sector Lead in the Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Group, covering a range of infrastructure sectors including transportation, social infrastructure and power projects in the Americas. She led new power project finance and public-private partnership rating assignments.

Jennifer is the receiver of three Moody’s Research Awards, including the report on Hydrogen – Electric Utilities and Power Projects She authored several climate risk related reports on topics such as credit impact of urban floods and adaptation, physical climate risk assessment and the credit benefits of adaptation and resilience.

Jennifer launched the Infrastructure in Emerging Markets’ series, and authored several reports on PPPs, power and drillship transactions including special comments on airport concessions, express tolled lanes, credit enhancements and power project carbon transition. She is a frequent speaker and presenter at various industry conferences and universities.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Jennifer worked at the World Bank as an energy finance specialist in the Latin American and Caribbean and Africa regions where she helped co-author the Brazil Low Carbon Case Study report, and worked on large scale electricity distribution rehabilitation projects in Brazil, Honduras and Malawi. Her earlier career includes roles at BNP Paribas, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Agricole, where she covered North American utilities, media, and telecom sectors.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration in Finance and Accounting from Drexel University and a Masters from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (SIPA) with a concentration in International Energy Management and Policy. She has a Certification in Sustainable Water Management from Columbia University and is a native Portuguese speaker and fluent in Spanish.

Mathew Lee

Vice President, Emerging Risk Research

MSCI

Camilo Santa

Biodiversity and Natural Capital Specialist

Inter-American Development Bank

Elizabeth Seeger

Member

International Sustainability Standards Board

Elizabeth Seeger was appointed as a full-time member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in July 2022, effective November 2022.

Ms Seeger has over 20 years’ experience of standard-setting, investment and working on sustainability topics. She joined the ISSB from global investment firm KKR, where she served as Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, responsible for helping oversee the firm’s consideration of sustainability matters throughout KKR’s investment process and part of KKR’s Global Impact team. She also oversaw KKR’s public sustainability reporting efforts, including the development of SASB and TCFD-aligned reporting.

Before joining KKR in 2009, she served as a project manager in the corporate partnerships programme (now known as EDF+Business) of Environmental Defence Fund and a consultant with the Corporate Executive Board (CEB, now known as Gartner), where she advised companies from a broad range of industries in Europe and the United States. Before CEB, Ms Seeger was an associate at the Environmental Law Institute, a non-profit organisation focused on environmental law and policy research and education.

Ms Seeger served on the SASB Standards Board as an inaugural member, but began her standard-setting work when becoming a member of the SASB Standards Council in 2012.

She is a 2013 Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow and earned a BA in Environmental Studies with honours from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Anne Simpson

Vice Chair

OMFIF

Paula Suarez

Deputy for Ecuador

Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action