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Shaping the Relationship Between Banks and Philanthropic Organisations

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 – Tuesday, October 4, 2022
14:00 – 15:30
Centre International de Conférences Genève - Workshop room 14

Thanks to innovation, professionalization and the rise of sustainable finance, the relationship between banks and philanthropic organisations has strongly evolved over the past decade.

This workshop will discuss the major transformations that we observe from financing to funding to advising.

Speakers:

Nicolas Mougeot

Head of Global Trends & ESG Advisory - Indosuez Switzerland

Rajna Gibson Brandon

Founder and Professor - Geneva Finance Research Institute

Rajna Gibson Brandon is Professor of Finance at the University of Geneva since September 2008 and Deputy Director of the Geneva Finance Research Institute. She was the founder and the Director of the Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI) at the University of Geneva between 2009 and 2016, and is the Chairwomen and Managing Director of the Geneva Institute of Wealth Management (GIWM) since 2016. From 2007 until 2015, she was Head of Research at the Swiss Finance Institute. She was the Director of the National Centre of Competence in Research Finrisk from 2001 to 2009. She was previously Professor of Finance at the University of Zurich, at the University of Lausanne and she was Assistant – Professor in Finance at HEC, Paris and a visiting scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles and at New York University.
She was also Member of the Board of Directors of Swiss Re from June 2000 to April 2018 and is since November 2018, a Member of the Board of Directors of Group BNP, France and since May 2022, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). She is also a Member of the Surveillance Board of Sustainable Finance Geneva, a Member of the Academic Advisory Board of RepRisk and has been a Member of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (currently FINMA) from 1997 to 2004.

Maximilian Martin

Global Head of Philanthropy - Lombard Odier Group

Dr. Maximilian Martin is the Founder of Impact Economy & passionate about creating value through industry transformation and new ventures. He is the Executive Vice President & Global Head of Philanthropy at Lombard Odier, and led the transaction ICRC “Program for Humanitarian Impact Investment” on the side of the co-sponsor. Prior roles include building the global philanthropic & impact investing services as Global Head & Managing Director for UBS, Senior Consultant with McKinsey & Company, instructor at Harvard’s Economics Department, and Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School.

Etienne Eichenberger

Partner, WISE-philanthropy advisors
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