Bloomberg Mandates: Hedge Funds and Climate – How is Your Fund Responding to Net Zero?

Michael Cappucci

Managing Director

Harvard Management Company

Michael Cappucci is a Managing Director for Compliance and Sustainable Investing at Harvard Management Company (HMC). He joined HMC in 2012. Michael helps to manage HMC’s sustainable investment program, where he focuses on integrating ESG factors in HMC’s private fund investments. His articles have been featured in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, NYU Journal of Law & Business, Virginia Law & Business Review, Responsible Investor, and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. He is a member of the SASB Investor Advisory Group, ILPA Legal Advisory Council, and Chair of the United Nations-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment Private Equity Advisory Committee.

Edward Mason

Director of Engagement

Generation Investment Management

Edward joined Generation Investment Management in 2020 as Director of Engagement. Previously, Edward was with the Church Commissioners for England for 11 years, and was the Head of Responsible Investment since 2014. Prior to working in investment, Edward served for 15 years as a British diplomat, leaving in 2005 to help establish the diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat. Edward received a degree in History from the University of Oxford.

Carsten Stendevad

Co-Chief Investment Officer for Sustainability

Bridgewater Associates

Carsten Stendevad joined Bridgewater in 2017, and serves as Co-CIO for Sustainability, overseeing Bridgewater’s overall sustainable investing efforts including the design and oversight of investment solutions with both financial and sustainability impact objectives. He is also a member of the Operating Committee and co-chairs the firm’s Sustainable Investing Committee. Carsten is a Board Advisor to GIC and their Investment Strategies Committee, a Board Member of Novo Holdings, and a Board Member of the Danish Recapitalization Fund. Prior to joining Bridgewater, Carsten served as the CEO of ATP, Denmark’s national pension plan. Previously, Carsten was a Managing Director in Citi’s Investment Banking Division in New York, with global responsibility for Citi’s corporate finance advisory team. Earlier in his career, Carsten was a Consultant at McKinsey & Company and an Analyst at the Central Bank of Denmark. Carsten served on the Global Steering Committee for the Blended Finance Taskforce, and on the Danish Committee for Corporate Governance, where he led the development of a Stewardship Code for institutional investors. Trained as an economist from the University of Copenhagen, he also holds a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Jameela Pedicini

Executive Director, Climate Finance Initiatives

Bloomberg L.P.

Jameela Pedicini is the executive director of Climate Finance Initiatives at Bloomberg LP. In that capacity, she works with clients to mobilize private finance to address the challenge of climate change through accelerating investments in clean energy and low-carbon opportunities globally. Pedicini has been working with institutional investors on sustainable finance and impact investing for over 10 years. She previously served as executive director and co-head of Mission Aligned Investing at Perella Weinberg Partners’ (PWP) outsourced CIO business, PWP Agility, a fully discretionary investment solutions platform for endowments and foundations, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and corporations. In that role, she led the firm’s expansion into sustainable finance and managed client relationships and portfolios with a focus on impact investing. Prior to this, she was at Harvard Management Company, where she served as the inaugural vice president of sustainable investing responsible for leading Harvard’s sustainable investing strategy. Pedicini received an MPhil from the University of Oxford, an MSc from the University of Amsterdam, and a B.A. from Antioch University.

Libbi Ross

Bloomberg Mandates EMEA

Bloomberg

Libbi Ross is responsible for Bloomberg Mandates in EMEA, a service connecting Bloomberg's network of alternative fund managers to allocators to assist in capital raising and manager research. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Libbi worked at RBS in Hedge Fund Markets Relationship Management and Hedge Fund Rates Sales. She initially started her career in Capital Introductions at Newedge (now Societe Generale). In her spare time, Libbi serves on the 100Women in Finance European FundWomen Conference committee and London Education committee organising events to spotlight diverse investment talent.

William Spada

Team Lead, Hedge Fund Data

BLOOMBERG/ 919 3RD AVE

William Spada is responsible for the data team that supports Bloomberg's hedge fund product which provides clients with critical market data covering the performance, classifications, investment terms, and investor commitments of one of the world’s most opaque industries. Will joined Bloomberg in 2016 tasked with growing the company's funds and portfolio holdings product in Latin America before being promoted to lead the hedge fund product three years later. He has helped launch Bloomberg's proprietary list of women- and minority- led hedge funds, expand its suite of hedge fund indices, and develop its unique hedge fund investor dataset.