Investing In The Future: Channelling Capital Towards An Inclusive, Net-Zero Carbon And Resilient Economy
Webinar
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This webinar features Sir Roger Gifford, Chair of the UK Green Finance Institute and past Lord Mayor of the City of London. Roger will share his thoughts on GFI’s work, focussing on practical ways for changing the way we live and consume, and how the institute is supporting the race to transition the global economy towards a less carbon-intensive future.
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Speaker:
Sir Roger Gifford is a Senior Banker at SEB in London. He read Chemistry at Oxford University and began his career in the financial sector at S.G. Warburg & Co, joining SEB in 1982. Prior to his appointment as UK Country Head (2000 – 2016) Roger headed the bank's operations in Japan for six years. He has worked in and around the primary debt and equity capital markets most of his career.
Roger is Vice Chairman and past Chair of the Association of Foreign Banks (AFB) in London and Chair of the Advisory Board of the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange (IBDE). He was Chair of the London Green Finance Initiative launched in 2016 to further the contribution of the financial sector to the G20 climate agenda and chaired the UK Government’s Green Finance Taskforce in 2018. Roger is also Chairman of the Green Finance Institute, launched in 2019, which has the economics, risk and commercial opportunity of meeting the challenge of climate change as its main focus.
