Analyzing Climate Risk: Challenges & Opportunities
Join Bloomberg and riskthinking.AI's product leaders as they share market insights and demonstrate how Bloomberg’s new climate risk solutions can help you assess climate risks and opportunities.
Speakers
Edo Schets
Head of Climate for Core Product Sustainable Finance Solutions
Bloomberg
Edo Schets is the Head of Climate for Core Product Sustainable Finance Solutions at Bloomberg. He previously worked at the Bank of England, where he helped design and run the BoE's climate stress test and led the development of the NGFS climate scenarios. Edo also worked at the Dutch National Bank, where he was part of the first-ever climate stress test conducted by a central bank. He holds a MSc in Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Irene Bermont-Penn
Head of European ESG Market Specialists
Bloomberg
Irene leads the EMEA ESG Market Specialists team and has extensive knowledge across the various pillars of ESG and Sustainable Finance. She is a subject matter expert in ESG and sustainable debt data, ESG Regulations, Climate and new areas of focus for the market such as Biodiversity, and has a deep understanding of the needs of the financial markets participants in this space. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Irene was an Equity Research Analyst at UBS Investment Bank.
Zane Van Dusen
Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products
Bloomberg
Zane Van Dusen is the Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products at Bloomberg. Zane began this role in 2019 and under his leadership, the group has become one of the industry's top data analytics providers, supplying innovative risk metrics, such as Bloomberg's award-winning Liquidity Assessment solution (LQA), based on Bloomberg's vast database of market data. Zane works with quants and engineers to build data-driven analytics that address a wide range of client needs from investment research to portfolio construction to regulatory reporting. Prior to this role, Zane managed the implementation of risk management, stress testing and reporting systems for Credit Suisse's Treasury and Liquidity Risk Management groups for over a decade. Prior to this role, Zane managed the implementation of risk management, stress testing and reporting systems for Credit Suisse's Treasury and Liquidity Risk Management groups for over a decade.
Dr. Ron S Dembo
Founder & CEO
RiskThinking AI
Dr. Ron S. Dembo is an academic, successful entrepreneur, and consultant to some of the world’s largest corporations and banks. Over an expansive career in academia and industry, Dr. Dembo has become a preeminent authority on financial risk management. Bringing a distinguished academic research career as an Associate Professor at Yale University and a visiting professor at MIT, he has been recognized with numerous awards for his work in risk management, finance, and climate change. In 2007 he was honoured as a lifetime fellow of the Fields Institute of Mathematics for his contributions to Canadian Mathematics. Dr. Dembo founded and served as CEO of Algorithmics Inc., which, prior to its sale to Fitch Ratings Inc. and IBM Corp., was the largest supplier of enterprise financial risk systems, serving 70% of the top hundred banks and 4 out of 5 of the world's largest insurers in the world. In his newest venture, as founder and CEO of riskthinking.AI, Dr. Dembo has taken his patented multi-factor scenario modelling expertise and created a leader in data and analytics for measuring climate enterprise financial risk.