Sustainability and impact measurement and reporting: Where do we stand?

Thursday, October 6, 2022 – Thursday, October 6, 2022
16:00 – 17:30
Centre International de Conférences Genève - Room C

Impact investors and firms use different approaches to measure and report on sustainability. In this research project by the SL4SF/GFRI/IFC, we aim at fostering comprehensive impact metrics for investors and propose a roadmap to bridge the gap and achieve convergence between firms’ and investors’ sustainability measurement and reporting frameworks.

Speakers:

Patrick Odier

Chair - Building Bridges

Patrick Odier has been Chair of the Board of Directors of Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd. since January 1st, 2014. He was Senior Managing Partner of the Lombard Odier Group from 2008 to 2022. Mr. Odier joined the Lombard Odier Group in 1982 and completed his training in Zurich, New York, and Montreal, before becoming a Managing Partner in 1986. He holds an economics degree from the University of Geneva and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago. Mr. Odier is president of Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF). He is also Chairman of Building Bridges. He is a member of the Board of economiesuisse (Swiss Business Federation). He was Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association from 2009 to 2016. He is also a board member of several Swiss and international academic institutions and philanthropic organizations.

Ivan Pictet

Former Senior Partner, Pictet; President, Fondation Portail des Nations; President, Fondation pour le développement; Member of the Board, Kofi Annan Foundation

Ivan Pictet joined Pictet & Cie in 1982 as Partner and retired as Senior Partner in June 2010. Mr. Pictet is active outside the banking sector, having served as President of the Investment Committee of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, President of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce and Industry, President of the Fondation pour Genève, President of the Board of Directors of Symbiotics, President of the Board of Directors of PSA International SA as well as President of the Geneva Financial Center Foundation (Fondation Genève Place Financière). He was also a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. And until it was dissolved at year-end 2014, he was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Blackstone Group International Limited. He is currently President of the Fondation Portail des Nations and member of the Board of the Kofi Annan Foundation.

Camilo Mondragón-Vélez Panelist,

Senior Research Officer - International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Dr. Camilo Mondragón-Vélez is a Senior Research Officer and Head of the IFC Modeling Team under the organization’s Development Impact Unit since early 2015. He leads a team of economists in designing and implementing frameworks and economic models to assess and quantify the development impact of IFC and private sector interventions ex-ante. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University.

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.

Roland Dominicé

CEO & Co-Founder, Symbiotics

Mr. Dominicé is CEO, co-founder and board chair of affiliated business lines. Prior to co-founding Symbiotics, Mr. Dominicé worked for BlueOrchard, PricewaterhouseCoopers, McKesson and UBS Switzerland. He holds master’s degrees in International Relations (IHEID Geneva) and Social Sciences (University of Chicago).

Nathan Sussman

Director - Center for Finance and Development

Nathan Sussman joined the Geneva Graduate Institute as a Full Professor of International Economics and Director of the Institute's Centre for Finance and Development. He was an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and in the integrated Philosophy, Economics, and Political Science Programme (PEP) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Sussman was the Director of the Research Department at the Bank of Israel and a voting member of the Monetary Policy Committee. His fields of expertise are monetary and financial economic history. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Full Professor and Economics Department Chair at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and served as Chairman of the Economics Department, Director of the Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University.

Christoph Baumann

Envoy of the State Secretary for Sustainable Finance - State Secretariat for International Finance

Christoph Baumann is Deputy Head Strategy Division & Envoy for Sustainable Finance at the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF). In this role, he leads the Swiss government's sustainable finance activities, ranging from negotiations in multilateral bodies (such as the G20) to domestic initiatives. He is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a WEF Young Global Leader.

Mr. Baumann holds an LLM in international law from the University of London, a master's degree in economics from the University of Zurich, and is a CFA charterholder.