Speakers - biscay ESG global summit 2017

JesÃºs MartÃnez

Luis de Guindos

Juan Ignacio Vidarte

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Jon D. Williams

Partner, Sustainability & Climate Change.

Jon co-leads the corporate team within PwC’s Sustainability & Climate Change practice, offering market-leading strategy and implementation, risk management and reporting solutions to companies. He has a particular focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, particularly relating to climate change, including climate finance and carbon markets. His clients include financial institutions in both developed and developing economies, and companies in the retail, consumer goods, healthcare, energy and mining sectors.

Prior to joining PwC, Jon worked for HSBC for 21 years, with a variety of banking roles in Europe and Asia, most recently as Head of Group Sustainable Development. Jon developed and implemented HSBC’s sustainability risk strategy and their sustainable business strategy, with a focus on lending and investments related to climate change, forestry and microfinance.

Jon is a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and also acts as an Expert Adviser to a major European Bank. He also was a green finance working group co-chair for the Climate Markets & Investors Association (CMIA) and Project Adviser to the World Economic Forum for both the Critical Mass Initiative and the Energy Access Partnership. He previously chaired the Equator Principles, the global benchmark for banks to manage social and environmental issues in project finance, and chaired the Climate Principles, a framework for the finance sector to respond to climate change.

Gonzalo GortÃ¡zar

CEO of CaixaBank

Gonzalo Gortázar, born in Madrid in 1965, has been CEO of CaixaBank since June 2014.

Mr. Gortázar holds a dual degree in Law and Business from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) and an MBA with distinction from the INSEAD Business School.

Mr. Gortazar is First Deputy Chairman of Repsol, Board Member of Banco BPI and Chairman of VidaCaixa. He has been Board member of Grupo Financiero Inbursa and Erste Bank until October 2016.

Mr. Gortázar served as CaixaBank’s Chief Financial Officer prior to being appointed CEO in June 2014. Before then, he was CEO of Criteria CaixaCorp between 2009 and June 2011. From 1993 to 2009, he worked at Morgan Stanley in London and Madrid, holding several posts in the investment banking division and leading the European Financial Institutions Group until he joined Criteria in mid-2009.

Previously, he held various corporate banking and investment banking positions at Bank of America.

Lorenzo SaÃ

Lorenzo joined the PRI in 2009. He is co-responsible for the PRI’s global outreach and signatory relations strategy. Prior to his current role, Lorenzo led the Implementation Support, Investor Engagements and Reporting and Assessment teams.

Before joining the PRI, he held project manager and financial analyst roles at UniCredit and MicroRate, overseeing microfinance initiatives and advising on responsible investments. He also served as an independent consultant for development organisations such as the World Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

He holds a BA in Business and Economics from the Università Cattolica, Milan, and a joint MBA/Masters in International Public Policy from SDA Bocconi, Milan and SAIS – Johns Hopkins, Washington, D.C.

Steven Smit

In 2000 Steven Smit (1971) founded Morningstar in the Benelux. From 2006 he additionally managed Morningstar France and helped integrate S&P Fund services (Morningstar acquisition in 2007).

Steven took a break starting in 2009 and in this period completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Furthermore he established the Masarang International Foundation that engages in reforestation and biodiversity preservation in Indonesia.

In 2012 Steven returned to Morningstar as CEO Benelux. In addition he oversees Morningstar’s Global ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Program as global Head of Sustainability.

Prior to his work at Morningstar, Steven was an investment analyst at Robeco and M&A consultant at Deloitte Corporate Finance.

He holds a master’s degree in Business Economics from the University of Amsterdam (1997)

Rosa GarcÃa

Born in Madrid, she holds the position of Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of GAMESA CORPORACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA, S.A.

Graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) with a degree in Mathematics.

Since October 2011 to the present day, she has held the position of Chair and Chief Executive of Siemens España.

Along her professional carreer she has held various management posts at WordPerfect and NEC Group and subsequently at Microsoft, where she has contributed to the development of a number of strategic projects; these positions include: Technical Support Manager at Microsoft Ibérica, Strategic Projects Manager at Microsoft Corporation, Global General Manager of Microsoft Corporation, Chair and Chief Executive of Microsoft Ibérica and Vice-Chair of Consumers and Online for Western Europe of Microsoft Corporation.

Furthermore, Ms Rosa María García has been a director of IBEX 35 companies such as Banesto, Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), Bankinter and Acerinox.

Enrique SÃ¡ez

Graduated in Economics and Business Administration from Deusto University. 1988.

MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. 1989.

Executive MBA from Imperial College. 2003.

In 1997, he started lecturing in Finance at Deusto University, an institution where he is regularly involved in launching new extra-curricular financial training initiatives.

Speaker at different finance and investment forums.

Head of Fineco-Private Banking Kutxabank, which joined Fineco in 1989. His duties have covered market analysis, fund management, construction of optimum portfolios and the use of derivatives as a management tool.   - His work is currently focused on the search for new techniques that, added to the traditional ones, help to improve the long-term return of the investors: behavioural finance, artificial intelligence, sustainable investments, etc.

SebastiÃ¡n Albella

Sebastáin Albella graduated in Law from the University of Navarra and State Attorney. He was Director of the Legal Department of the General Directorate of the Treasury and Financial Policy and Deputy General Manager for Financial Policy was the first Secretary to the Board and Director of the Legal Services of the CNMV (Spanish Securities & Exchange Commission) and was part of the team who drafted the Stock Market Act. Sebastián has been the legal advisor to the Spanish Banking Association, member of the CNMV Advisory Committee and a member of ESME (European Commission’s Securities Market Expert Group). Prior to joining the CNMV; he was senior partner in Spain and a member of the Global Board of Linklaters law firm. He then co-funded and moved to the Ramón y Cajal Abogados law firm in 2005.

Txomin GarcÃa HernÃ¡ndez

Place and Date of Birth: Donostia-San Sebastián, 24 April 1959.

Work experience

All his work experience has been linked to the MONDRAGON Cooperative Group:

1981-1982. Design and Technology Lecturer at Mondragón University (EPS)
1983-1986. Head of Application Engineering at AURKI (now Mondragón Assembly) He has Vice-President of the Governing Council at this cooperative between 1984-1986.
1986-1988. R&D Director at ULMA Packaging
1988-2001. ULMA Packaging Managing Director
2001-2009 General Manager of the ULMA Group
2004-2009 Vice-President of the MONDRAGON ULMA Group Division
Since April 2009, Chairman Caja Laboral y Seguros Lagun Aro and MONDRAGON (Financial Division) Vice-President

Other posts held

Chairman of the IKERLAN Technology Centre (2003-2009)
IK4 Chairman
Chairman of the MIK Management Research Centre (2007-2009)
Chairman of the MONDRAGON Business Promotion Centre.

Other activities:

Regular speaker at the MU and INSIDE MBAs (topic: Innovation)
Member of the Advisory Panel of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation to draft the new Technical and Science Act.

Academic training

Industrial Technical Engineer (Mondragón University)
MBA in Business Management.

Additional training

Different skills-building and training programmes, including:

Master’s Degree in Total Quality, Innovation Management, EFQM Evaluator, Accounting and Finances, Leadership and People Management, etc.

Expert Course in Banking and Finances for Credit Institution administrators.

Gregorio Villabeitia

Gregorio Villalabeitia graduated in Economics from Deusto Commercial University and has a law degree from Deusto University.

In 1977, he started his banking career at the Banco de Vizcaya in London. He was the CEO of the Caja de Ahorros Vizcaína and subsequently the CEO of the Banco Cooperativo Español from when it was founded.

He then moved to be CEO at Argentaria, where he was a member of the Council and Committee of the AEB (Spanish Banking Association), Chair of the Banco de Crédito Local and of Banco de Negocios Argentaria, the Managing Director of Caja Postal and, subsequently, the CEO of Banca Mayorista.

At BBVA, he was a member of the Executive Committee, CEO of the Investment & Marketing Bank, and CEO of the Industrial Group.

Representing BBVA, he was a Member of the Board of Metrovacesa, Repsol and of Gas Natural, Vice-President and Board Member of Telefónica, Member of the Board of Iberia and Chairman of Adquira España, of Provida, AFP Seguros Chile and a Board Member of BBVA Chile and Corporación IBV.

As an independent. he was member of the Advisory Board of Ernst & Young and of General Electric España, and a Member of the Board of Telefónica Internacional.

In addition, he was a Partner of Seeliger y Conde and Chairman of the Board Members Global Practice Group at the AMROP Group.

He is currently CEO of KUTXABANK and represents the bank at CECA.

Josu Urrutia

Bilbao, Bizkaia

10 April 1968

Josu Urrutia is currently the Chairman of the Athletic Football Club, a post he has held since July 2011.

During his time as chairman, he has had the opportunity to experience another aspect of the life of the Club which complements the privilege of playing for the club from 1988 to 2003.

His training and time as a professional player was exclusively at the Athletic Club. He now combines that management and sport experience, which he has enriched down through the years with training to coach and mentor people and teams, in the work processes that he heads.

SebastiÃ¡n Albella Amigo

Josep Oliu

Josep Oliu holds a Degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota (USA). His academic career included teaching economics at the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona as Associate Professor, and serving as Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Oviedo.

Between 1982 and 1983, Josep Oliu was an Advisor to the World Bank and to the Spanish Ministry of Economy. In 1983 he was the Head of Strategy and Studies at the Spanish National Institute of Industry, where he later served as Planning General Manager. He was also a member of the Boards of Directors of Aviaco, Elcano, Enresa and Inisel.

He joined Banco Sabadell in 1986 as Technical General Secretary and was appointed Executive Managing Director and member of the Board of Directors in 1991. Since 1999 he is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banco Sabadell.

His other current positions include Chairman of the Board of Exea Empresarial and representative Director of the latter in Puig, S.L.

He is also a Member of the Board of Trustees of Princess of Asturias Foundation and of the Princess of Girona Foundation, a Member of the Spanish Board of INSEAD, and a Member of FEDEA (Foundation for Studies in Applied Economics).

Josu Jon Imaz

Josu Jon Imaz has a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of the Basque Country. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences in San Sebastián. He was awarded the End of Degree Extraordinary Prize.

In 2008, Josu Jon Imaz joined the Repsol Group as chairman of Petronor, a Repsol group company where he managed the challenges of modernisation, sustainability and relations with the environment.

In 2010, he became director of the Repsol Refinery Unit and also headed the New Energies Unit.

In 2012, he joined Repsol’s Executive Committee and, as General Manager of the Industrial and New Energies Unit, he oversaw completion of two of the company’s most important recent projects: the modernisation of the Cartagena refinery (the largest industrial investment in the history of Spain) and the construction of a new fuel-oil reduction plant at the Petronor refinery in Muskiz.

As one of his career milestones, and in addition to his belonging to the Repsol group, Mr. Imaz was President of the Spanish Association of Petroleum Operators (AOP) from November 2011 to September 2014.

In 2014, he was appointed CEO of the company and a member of the Executive Committee. And in 2016, he was also appointed Vice-President of Gas Natural Fenosa.

During his political career, he was the Basque Government’s Minister for Industry, Trade and Tourism and its spokesperson from 1998 to 2003, President of the EVE (Basque Energy Entity) during that same period, and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the EAJ-PNV (Basque Nationalist Party) from 2003 to 2007.

Eneko Atxa

Eneko Atxa was the youngest Spanish chef to be awarded 3 Michelin stars at the time. In addition to this achievement, he has also made it to the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. His restaurant has also been named as the most sustainable one in the world, by the same list, and the Best Restaurant in Europe according to OAD (Opinionated About Dining). Eneko won the 2015 Spanish National Gastronomy Award, his restaurant was recently named the Best Restaurant in the World by the readers of the Elite Traveler luxury magazine and he is one of European’s Young Leaders.

Eneko Atxa developed and deployed his great creative capacity at the Azurmendi culinary complex. His passion and awareness, cultural roots, ties with his setting and local sourcing, and the recipes of Basque traditional cuisine have and continue to underpin each of his creations. He is driven by a desire to create pleasure, achieve excellence, generate value, share wealth and knowledge, in short, to design a very personal experience and create in a sustained and sustainable manner.

His cuisine is the perfect trilogy of taste, texture and aesthetics with an exquisite mastery of the stocks. Home cooking, stews and his roots can be glimpsed in the composition of each dish as the solid base on which he constructs textures and works the product. The strength of each dish comes from Eneko’s very DNA, from his roots, from the genuineness of the traditional flavour, as he seeks to season it with what he calls power to the square. A cuisine that talks to rather than shouting at you, in a silent flaunting of harmony and sustainability.

Unai Rementeria

President of the Government of Biscay

Date of birth: 10 August 1973.

Academic qualifications: Degree in Law and Diploma in Economics from the University of Deusto, and Diploma in Administrative and Urban Planning Law.

He holds a Master in Legal Practice from the Biscay Bar Association, another in Urban Planning Law from the IVAP, and has a knowledge of public and private accounting.

Career history: He began his professional career in 1999, as Secretary-Comptroller of Nabarniz Town Council.

He also has experience in the private sector. He worked as a lawyer in Administrative Law at the law firm Sanz & Saiz Abogados (1999-2002) and then at the law firm Ibarrondo & Lamikiz, also as a lawyer specializing in Administrative Law (2002-2007). Between 1999 and 2007 he advised several municipalities in the fields of Urban Planning, Environmental and Administrative Law. From 2007 to 2008 he acted as counsel for the Legal Department of the public company Euskal Trenbide Sarea (ETS) and in 2008 for the public company Bizkailur, currently Azpiegiturak.

He was Councillor for Urban Planning and Deputy Mayor of Mundaka from 1999 to 2007 and served as Mayor of this municipality from 2007 until 2013. He was also a member of the regional board of EUDEL, the association of Basque municipalities (2007-2010). In 2009 he was elected as a member of the Basque Parliament, representing the Basque National Party, EAJ-PNV (until 2011). In municipal and regional elections that year he was elected to the Biscay Parliament (Juntas Generales de Bizkaia) and appointed spokesperson for the EAJ-PNV Group.

From January 2013 to 1 July 2015, he was Head of the President’s Office and spokesperson for Government of Biscay (Diputación Foral de Bizkaia).

Other positions held: Chair of the General Council and Executive Committee of the Biscay Transport Board (Consorcio de Transportes de Bizkaia) and Chair of Metro Bilbao.

Sylvain Lambert

Sylvain is one of the founder of this practice, launched in 1993, and has about 25 years of experience in the Sustainability area. He has a strong expertise in CSR strategy and communication assignments as well as the integration of CSR criteria in the investor’s relations and transactions. In France, Sylvain advises more than 40 investors on the integration of ESG in their investment processes and in their portfolio management.

Mark Lewis

Mr. Mark Christopher Lewis serves as the Head of European Utilities Equity Research at Barclays PLC, Research Division. Mr. Lewis covers the power and utilities sector in the European region at the firm. Prior to this, he was a Senior Analyst of Energy Transition and Climate-Change at Kepler Cheuvreux, Research Division. Mr. Lewis was a part of the sustainability research team at the firm. Prior to that, he served as a Managing Director of Commodities Research and Head of Energy Research at Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division. Mr. Lewis covered markets including European Union natural gas, power, and EU carbon allowances. He has 14 years’ experience as a financial analyst covering European energy markets, and worked prior to that as an academic at London University. His research on power, gas, and emissions markets has been ranked number one by the benchmark Energy Risk survey of global commodities investors in 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008.

Mr. Lewis is a Member of Advisory Board of Carbon Tracker Initiative.

He holds an MPhil from Cambridge University, an MA from London University, and a BA (First-Class Honors) in Modern Languages and Economics from Sheffield University.

Teresa Ribera

IDDRI is an independent policy research institute which aims at fostering the transition to sustainable development and prosperity for all, especially through four key agendas: climate, biodiversity and ecosystems, ocean and governance of sustainable development.

Teresa Ribera was Secretary of State for climate change in Spain’s Government between 2008 and 2011, responsible for environment and climate policies as well as the national meteorological agency. In earlier years, she was Director-General for climate (2004-2008) and held different positions in the ministries of Public Works, Transportation and Environment (1996-2004).

She chairs the Advisory Board of the Momentum for Change UNFCCC Initiative. In January 2017 she was appointed by the Swedish Government as a member of the Board of the Stockholm Environment Institute. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Climate, and of SDSN’s Global Leadership Council.

Teresa Ribera graduated in Law, holds the diploma in constitutional law and political science of the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales (Spain) and belongs to the Cuerpo Superior de Administradores Civiles del Estado. She has been assistant professor in public law in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Wim Van Hyfte

18 years of experience/10 years with the firm.

Wim Van Hyfte is Global Head of Responsible Investments and Research at Candriam Investors Group since 2016. He is responsible for research on environmental, social and governance issues and the implications for portfolio and risk management across assets. Before, he was senior fund manager-quant analyst at Candriam co-managing global ESG quant equity funds and segregated accounts for more than 8 years. He joined Candriam in 2006 after having worked in the academic world for over 8 years.

Since 2012, he is also Visiting Professor at ULB Solvay School of Economics and Management teaching on Asset Pricing in the Advanced Master in Quantitative Finance. From 2006 until 2012, he was Visiting Professor at Vlerick Business School teaching on portfolio management in an MBA program.

He holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics, an MBA in Finance and a Master’s degree in Applied Economics. His academic research covers both empirical and corporate finance with a focus on asset pricing, risk modeling and portfolio management. His work has been presented at international academic conferences and published in peer-reviewed international academic journals.

John McKinley

He works closely with the firm’s global investment teams across equity, fixed income and alternatives to develop scalable, innovative investment solutions that address clients’ financial objectives alongside their social or environmental objectives.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Mr. McKinley served as Innovation Manager at Acumen, a social venture fund investing debt/equity in companies delivering goods and services to low-income consumers across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Prior to Acumen, Mr. McKinley served as a senior policy analyst in the Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York City and managed rule of law development programs across 17 countries in Africa and the Middle East with the U.S. Department of Justice. He has written for Harvard Business Review and lectured on impact investing at Haas School of Business, Columbia Business School, London School of Economics, and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

Mr. McKinley holds a BA from Middlebury College and a Masters in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University.

Helena ViÃ±es-Fiestas

Helena joined the team after six years at Oxfam where she led Oxfam’s advocacy work on responsible investment and engagement with institutional investors in support of poverty reduction. She was Oxfam lead for Better Returns in a Better World project. She has also led Oxfam’s private sector policy on access to medicines and the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Oxfam, Helena worked as an SRI analyst and also for Global Witness. Helena is the author of ‘La Responsibilitiat Empresarial: Una Resposta Rendible’ (CTESC Barcelona, 2005).

Helena holds an MSc in Development Studies from London School of Economics, another one in Latin American Economics and a BA in Economics from the University of Barcelona.

Jillis Herpers

Executive Director and Head of ESG Client Coverage.

Jillis Herpers is an Executive Director and Head of ESG Client Coverage for the EMEA region at MSCI. Jillis has a financial markets background spanning more than 20 years and has worked at MSCI since 2006. He has been actively involved in building out the MSCI ESG Research business to being the largest ESG provider in the world. In his current role at MSCI as Head of ESG Client Coverage for the EMEA region Jillis is responsible for all MSCI’s ESG sales and ESG consultant staff in this region and the clients they service. Prior to MSCI, Jillis worked for over 10 years in Fixed Income first in The Netherlands at Rabobank and as of 2000 in London for WestLB and Cantor Fitzgerald. Jillis holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Economics from the Amsterdam School of Business in The Netherlands.

Thierry Bogaty

In March 2011, Thierry Bogaty was appointed CEO of IDEAM, an asset manager belonging to the Amundi Group. IDEAM became Amundi SRI Expertise a year later and since then he has been Head of Department.

Thierry Bogaty is also general secretary for the Medici Committee, a think tank dedicated to sustainable finance.

He is vice-chairman of the Responsible Investment working group at the EFAMA and a member of the Responsible Investment committee bureau of AFG, the French Asset Management Association (Association Française de la Gestion Financière).

Thierry Bogaty is on the board of several organisations: SRI mutual funds, Finansol (The French impact investing association) and SIFA (Société d’Investissement France Active).

Thierry Bogaty started his career in 1984 at the Journal des Finances before joining Le Nouvel Economiste. In 1987 he joined L’Express and continued his career in journalism (Group Expansion, Le Figaro), finally becoming editor-in-chief of Investir Magazine (Les Echos group), a position he held for just over 5 years before joining Amundi.

Thierry Bogaty holds a master’s degree in Management and Finance from Paris Dauphine University.

Jan Poser

Chief Strategist & Head Sustainability of Bank J. Safra Sarasin.

Born in Bonn, Germany. Attended high school in Bonn and Geneva. After studying economics in St. Gall, Switzerland, and Freiburg, Germany, he moved to the ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. After completing his PhD in 1998, he joined the Russia Division of the International Monetary Fund in Washington. Returning to Switzerland in 1999 he worked in the Country Risk Department of one of Switzerland’s large banks, where he was responsible for Russia and Eastern Europe. Jan Amrit Poser joined Bank Sarasin in 2001 and served the Bank which is now known as Bank J. Safra Sarasin in many different functions; first as a foreign exchange strategist, then as its Chief Economist, Head of Research and Head of Asset Management. Since 2013 Jan Amrit Poser is responsible for the sustainable investment process and the claim of Sustainability of Bank J. Safra Sarasin.

Jan Poser is a renowned commentator of sustainability, economic and financial market developments in the media.