An ESG Active Approach Through Passive Investing with Invesco

Maria Lombardo

European Head of ESG Client Strategies

Invesco

Maria Lombardo joined Invesco in 2019 as Head of ESG Client Strategies EMEA based in London. Ms. Lombardo has more than 20 years of experience serving as managing director in investment banking with Lazard, UBS, Sberbank and Unicredit. Prior to joining Invesco, she was coordinating the global investor initiative group at CDP, the environmental disclosure non-for-profit organization at the forefront of climate change. Ms. Lombardo graduated from Bocconi University in Milan with a CEMS Master in Bocconi and UCL/Brussels, she holds the ESG CFA Certificate and a diploma in Business Sustainability Management from Cambridge University Institute of Sustainability Leadership. Ms. Lombardo is fluent in Italian, English and French.

Sanjay Rao

Bloomberg Barclays Indices Product Manager, EMEA

Bloomberg L.P.

Mahesh Bhimalingam

Chief European Credit Strategist

Bloomberg Intelligence

Mahesh Bhimalingam is the Chief European Credit Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence. He covers European Credit markets, across all shades of Investment Grade, High Yield and Leveraged Loans. Based in London, Mahesh has 19 years of experience covering Global Credit and Fixed Income across Developed and Emerging Markets. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2019, Mahesh worked as the Global Macro Strategist for Numen Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund identifying macro situations across developed and emerging markets. Before that, he was Global Head of Emerging Market Credit Strategy and Head of European Credit Strategy at BNP for nearly 5 years. Preceding BNP, he was Head of European Credit Strategy at Deutsche Bank for 3 years. He spent 5 years at Barclays Capital where he was Head of Leveraged Finance Strategy and a European Credit Strategist. At the beginning of his career at Lehman brothers, he was a Mortgage trader and Structurer, an Emerging Markets Strategist and a European Credit Strategist. Mahesh brings extensive knowhow of credit derivatives and credit-equity-rates macro linkages across geographies to the BI franchise. Mahesh holds a MBA from IIM (Indian Institute of Management) Ahmedabad and a B.Tech Engineering degree from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras.