Professional Investors and the Energy Transition

Laurent Ramsey is a Managing Partner of Pictet Group and the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Pictet Asset Management. He is also the Vice-President of the Geneva Financial Center (FGPF) and on the Board of the Asset Management Association Switzerland (AMAS). Mr. Ramsey has more than 20 years’ experience in the asset management industry, including 16 in the areas of pensions and distribution. Two years after joining the Pictet's Geneva Office as an Equity Analyst, he was sent to Asia where he worked as a Senior Investment Manager in Hong Kong and Singapore. He was then put in charge of institutional business development for the region and appointed Executive Director of Pictet Asia. Mr. Ramsey came back to Geneva in 2000 as Head of Marketing & Sales of Pictet Funds. He became CEO of the division in 2004. In 2010, following the merger of Pictet Funds and Pictet Asset Management into one business line, he was appointed Global Head of Distribution of Pictet Asset Management. Mr. Ramsey holds a Bachelors and Masters in International Management from HEC Lausanne School of Business and Economics as well as a Federal Diploma for Financial Analyst and Portfolio Manager.

Sonja Gibbs leads the Institute of International Finance's (IIF) work on sustainable finance and sovereign debt policy, focusing on research and advocacy for the Institute’s global membership across the financial services  industry. Her research interests include the economic impact and financial market pricing of climate and ESG risks, sustainable investment and capital markets development in emerging markets. Ms. Gibbs oversees the IIF Weekly Insight, which offers a concise perspective on global financial markets with an ESG lens, and the IIF Global Debt Monitor, which looks across mature and emerging economies for debt-related vulnerabilities such as the rapid buildup in EM corporate debt levels. She also serves on  the boards of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM), and of Egypt’s Regional Center for Sustainable Finance (RCSF).  Ms. Gibbs has spent over 20 years in banking and financial markets, most recently with Nomura International in London, where she was Chief Equity Strategist. Earlier positions include stints as a U.S. economist and bank credit analyst in New York and Los Angeles. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), has an MBA and BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Hans B. Püttgen is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). As Georgia Power Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech until 2006, he assumed several responsibilities: founder and Management Board Chair of the National Electric Energy Test, Research and Application Center, NEETRAC, an R & D and test center focused on electric energy infrastructures. He is co-author of the book Electricity – Humanity’s low-carbon future.

Frederique is the lead author of Cooler Earth - Higher Benefits: Actions by those who care about children, climate and finance and initiated the appeal Save Children's Lives: Climate-Responsible Banking Survival Guide. She has worked in various countries for UNICEF. She promotes capacity building for climate-responsible finance as powerful and vital measure for child protection, addressing root-causes of global warming. Her initiative for intergenerational climate justice was awarded with the Keeling Curve Prize in 2019.

Mahesh Roy leads the Investor Strategies programme at IIGCC, working with investors on their climate change strategies. His team develops industry leading guidance such as the Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF) and Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology (PCRAM), as well as running initiatives such as Net Zero Asset Managers and Paris Aligned Asset Owners. Mr. Roy is the UNFCCC’s Marrakech Partnership focal point for Finance, linking non-state actors in finance with parties to the convention. Mahesh Roy was previously UK Director & Global Lead for Net Zero at the environmental NGO CDP, building on an 18-year career in Banking and Finance, predominately at Macquarie Group where he led specialist teams in Financial Services and Healthcare. He holds an MBA, Energy from Cranfield University.