SCR^® Advisory Committee

Piyush Agrawal is the Deputy Chief Risk Officer at BMO. Previously he was the Chief Risk Officer of Citibank, N.A. and Head of Climate Risk, which accounts for approximately 75 percent of Citigroup's total assets. Between 2015 and August 2019, he was the Chief Risk Officer for Asia-Pacific, responsible for managing the Firm’s risks across all lines of business. He had primary interface responsibilities with regulators across Asia.

Prior to the Asia CRO role, Agrawal was based in New York as Head of Strategy, and Chief Administrative Officer for Franchise Risk and Strategy. He was previously based in Mumbai as the Country Risk Officer for South Asia and as Senior Credit Officer of the bank with responsibility for the corporate portfolio and management of other local franchise risks. He served as Citi’s nominee on the board of India’s first Infrastructure Debt Fund.

In 2004, Agrawal was instrumental in setting up the Commercial Risk Management group and was also the Head of the Commercial Loan Loss Reserve process. He led the wind-down of Citi’s mortgage warehousing business at the peak of the crisis. In 2008, he moved to the Global Risk Oversight team under Citi’s Chief Risk Officer. Agrawal holds a master’s from Wake Forest University and a Chartered Accountant qualification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Steve is the managing director global head of research and methodology at S&P Global Sustainable1. Previously he lead Trucost’s Global ESG Analytics and Client Delivery Team providing data and insights to financial institutions, corporate and other clients so that they can allocate capital to more sustainable business models and communicate ESG performance to their stakeholders.

Bullock was Trucost’s lead on the world’s first public environmental profit and loss EP&L account for PUMA and led the technical development of the Water Risk Monetizer, in collaboration with Ecolab and Microsoft. More recently, he contributed to the technical development of the S&P Global Ratings Green Evaluation tool and the S&P 500 Carbon Price Risk 2030 Adjusted Index.

Having previously led the development of the Natural Capital Protocol’s food and beverage and apparel sector guides, Bullock currently sits on the Advisory Panel of the Natural Capital Coalition.

Ben Carr is the Global Head of Climate Risk Products at Bloomberg L.P. Previously, he led the multi-disciplinary project team at Aviva working on the development of scenario analysis to support the development of disclosures consistent with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

John T. Colas has worked in each of the world’s principal financial centers advising senior management in financial services and the public sector on critical matters of strategy, regulation and risk and capital management. He also serves on Marsh & McLennan’s Climate Risk and Sustainability Task Force and the Government Steering Committee.

Colas led the project team assisting the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and a working group of 16 leading banks to develop a framework to assess and disclose climate-related risk factors. He currently serves as a member of the new Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee of the CFTC’s Market Risk Advisory Committee.

He is a member of The Economic Club of New York, The Foreign Policy Association, the AFS-USA President’s Council and an advisory board member of the Huntsman Program at the University of Pennsylvania. A magna cum laude graduate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he also studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris as a Rotary Foundation Scholar.

Neha Coulon is the Managing Director, Head of ESG, EMEA at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Prior to this role, Neha was the Partner, Global Head of ESG at Kirkoswald Capital Partners, and the Global Head of ESG Solutions at JPMorgan Chase, where she led ESG advisory and product development for the investment bank. Neha was a trusted advisor to C-suite investors and corporates, led JPMorgan's engagement on sustainability with European policy makers, and pioneered several ESG-focused products. The latter included the first sustainability-linked cross-currency swaps, the first reforestation bonds and the first microfinance CLO since the financial crises. Prior to this, Neha structured and marketed quantitative strategies to institutional investors in North America and Europe. Neha holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a M.S. in finance from Princeton University, and an MBA from University of Oxford.

Beth Gould Creller manages GARP’s Sustainability & Climate Risk (SCR®) Program. Prior to joining GARP, she began her risk management career in the upstream oil and gas industry with Hess Corporation, where she developed an embedded Enterprise Risk Management program, key in company capital decision-making and asset valuation. Working across multiple continents, her energy career spanned corporate risk, internal audit, global supply chain, and governance.

Sandro Díez-Amigo currently works as a research lead for the Market Accelerator for Green Construction, International Finance Corporation. Previously he was a a senior evaluation officer in the Economics and Sustainability Department of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group. His areas of expertise include applied research, evaluation, policy, strategy, economics, finance, and risk. His past professional experience includes working as a risk management officer at MIGA, as a young professional at the Inter-American Development Bank's Office of Risk Management and its Multilateral Investment Fund, and as a consultant for Oliver Wyman's Financial Services practice.

Díez-Amigo holds a doctorate and a master's degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and bachelor’s and master's degrees in economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is a Certified FRM®.

Novera is the Founder and CEO of EmBER Advisory LLC. Previously, she was the chief risk officer at NRG Energy and the CRO at Uniper SE as well as a board member of Uniper Global Commodities SE. Prior to assuming these roles, Khan had been leading the market risk department of Uniper Global Commodities SE since April 2014. Before that, Khan led the Gas, Oil & LNG Risk team.

Khan has extensive experience in the energy industry and has held various senior risk management positions across multiple markets and companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Robert Litterman is the Chairman of the Risk Committee at Kepos Capital LP. Prior to joining Kepos Capital in 2010, he enjoyed a 23-year career at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was named a partner in 1994, and served in research, risk management, investments, and thought leadership roles. While at Goldman, Litterman was one of three external advisors to Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation.

During his tenure at Goldman, Litterman researched and published groundbreaking papers in asset allocation and risk management. He is the co-developer of the Black-Litterman Global Asset Allocation Model, an investment management tool, and has co-authored books including “The Practice of Risk Management” and “Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach.”

Litterman earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s in human biology from Stanford University. He is also the inaugural recipient of the S. Donald Sussman Fellowship at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and serves several boards.

Charmian Love is the global director of advocacy at Natura&Co. Previously she was the co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK, where she supportedthe growth of B Corps.

As Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School of Oxford University, she is guiding development of the Circular Economy Lab; she has designed and teaches MBA and Executive MBA courses on this subject. She is also involved in shaping the adoption of the circular economy in London and sits on the Investment Committee of the London Waste and Recycling Board. She is a member of the Sustainability Advisory Council at the ICAEW.

Her entrepreneurship began with the creation of Volans, a change agency, co-founded in 2008 with John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan and the second UK company to certify as a B Corp; clients included senior leadership teams from Nike, HP and Allianz. Prior to starting her adventure with the Volans team, she was a consultant at BCG and Chair of the Flavelle Foundation.

Love has contributed to HBR, Wired, Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Guardian. She received her master’s from Harvard Business School and holds a degree in art history from Queen’s University.

Michael Marano is the CEO of MillPoint, Inc. Previously, he was head of strategy and business development at APX. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of developing, executing, and measuring the success of APX corporate strategies across the global clean energy, environmental, ESG, and corporate sustainability markets.

Prior to APX, Mike served as director of corporate strategy for CME Group, helping the organization develop, execute, and measure enterprise-wide ESG initiatives across the organization. Mike also held the role of director of energy products at CME, responsible for managing North American natural gas, power, and weather business lines.

Before joining CME Group, Mike was active in power, weather, and natural gas trading at Direct Energy and Hess Corporation, where he led business development efforts, managed a power options portfolio, originated bilateral transactions, and traded financial power and natural gas. Mike received a B.A. from The College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

William May is Global Head of Certifications and Educational Programs at GARP and is responsible for both the FRM and ERP programs. Prior to joining GARP, William had over 20 years of market experience including serving as a Senior Director in Fitch Ratings’ credit market research group and as a Senior Research Officer at UBS Wealth Management. He has worked for several buy-side and sell-side firms including Bank of America and Federated Investors as well as specialty firms like Andrew Kalotay Associates and Law and Economic Consulting Group. He began his career in the research function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and has worked on the Open Market Trading Desk and as a bank examiner. William holds a BS in applied mathematics and economics from Stony Brook University; an MBA and an MA in economics from Fordham University; an MS in financial engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and an MS in Applied Statistics from Columbia University’s Teachers College where he is currently pursuing a PhD in measurement, evaluation, and statistics.

Jo Paisley is co-President of the GARP Risk Institute, the thought leadership arm of GARP. Set up in early 2018, the Institute works across all risk disciplines, with Jo’s focus to date on climate risk management and scenario analysis, stress testing and operational resilience.

Her career began at the Bank of England where she worked in a variety of roles across macroeconomics, statistics, supervision and risk. Her last role was as a Director of the Supervisory Risk Specialists Division within the Prudential Regulation Authority, where she was heavily involved in the design and execution of the UK’s first concurrent stress test in 2014. She left the Bank in 2015 and joined HSBC as their Global Head of Stress Testing. She has also worked as an independent stress testing consultant, advising firms on how to get the most value out of stress testing.

Dr. Pullen is a founding partner and chief scientist at Propeller Ventures. Previously, she was the director of Product at Jupiter Intelligence, a start-up delivering hyper-local predictions of weather, water and climate impacts using cloud computing. She is an adjunct research scientist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and advises the Environmental & Climate Sciences Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Previously, she was an associate professor in Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology where she led international multidisciplinary teams in integrated oceanography, meteorology and urban field and modeling studies.

Pullen's expertise spans climate, weather and hydroscience, with a focus on high resolution coastal urban prediction for flooding, heatwaves and other perils. She has served on National Academy of Science panels for climate, reviewing the most recent National Climate Assessment, and earth system prediction. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow of the Explorers Club, and was a science fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Holding a master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Arizona, and a doctorate in physical oceanography from Oregon State University, she was the first undergraduate intern at the Santa Fe Institute and later worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Nonlinear Studies.

Corinne is currently a senior advisor to the UN Environment Programme for Financial Institutions (UNEPFI) on the EU Taxonomy. In this capacity she chairs the banking subgroup on data availability and usability of the Platform on Sustainable Finance, a permanent expert group of the European Commission which assists in developing sustainable finance policies including the further development of the EU taxonomy. She is also the lead author on "Testing the Application of the EU Taxonomy to Core Banking Products", a report published in January 2021 by the European Banking Federation and the UNEP-FI.

Prior to this, Corinne was head of sustainable finance for the wholesale bank at Standard Chartered Bank, and head for environmental and social risk management globally. She first worked on sustainable finance at HSBC with a similar focus, and started her career at the French Ministry for the Environment over 20 years ago. Corinne holds a masters of science in economics and political science, as well as a masters of science in environmental policy and regulations, from the London School of Economics. She is an expert panel member of the advisory panel to Accounting for Sustainability, a programme of the Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation for the inclusion of sustainability in financial accounting.

Tony is the executive director, head of transition advisory at Howden Group Holdings. Previously, he was the executive director and technical lead for the transition planning and sector pathways at GFANZ. He was the global senior expert on transition risk and opportunity, and co-leader of the climate corporate services at Climate and Resilience Hub. He previously advised on climate strategy, reporting, and analysis for Willis Towers Watson’s clients to help them navigate the transition to a just, low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Tony is leading work on transition and insurance, energy transition, and guidance on climate scenario use for Paris alignment of banking portfolios with the Climate Financial Risk Forum.

Tony has over 23 years of global experience in climate change, sustainability, advisory, and program delivery. From 2016-2020, Tony was Global Director for Disclosure at CDP, responsible for the world’s leading climate and environmental disclosure platform, achieving over 30,000 disclosures from companies and cities, producing over 40,000 ratings, and ensuring disclosure to the TCFD recommendations, including climate transition plans, scenario analyses, and sector-specific disclosures for 22 industries. From 2009-2014, he led sustainability consulting practices at Infosys and Logica across EMEA and APAC, delivering strategies, advisory, and climate transition projects spanning private and public sector. This built upon his creation and delivery of Logica’s multi-award winning environmental program, responsible for GBP 32 million in savings and a 23% reduction in emissions.

Michael is the president and chief strategy office at MVGX. He is also a fellow at the Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Previously, he was a senior advisor within the Bank of England, providing counsel and independent challenge to senior management on matters concerning, governance, banking supervision and policy as well as trends relating to financial markets.

On behalf of the BoE and the UK government, Sheren co-chaired the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group with China and has contributed to bilateral negotiations and interventions on sustainable finance with a wide and diverse collection of countries. He is a developer of innovative financial structures, many employing cutting edge technology, for a wide range of sustainable projects around the world, and was a founding member of the BoE’s Fintech Accelerator, remaining on its steering committee.

Sheren is actively engaged with many global tech leaders on future-facing greentech initiatives. Prior to joining the BoE, he spent over twenty-five years in the debt capital markets specializing in the structuring, distribution and trading debt for major global financial institutions in New York and London. He holds master’s degrees from Harvard, The London School of Economics and New York University where he studied finance, economics, philosophy and public policy.

Dr. Tianyin SUN is leading the team at the Center for Green Finance Research of Tsinghua University that is developing approaches and models for quantifying the impact of environmental and climate-related risks on the macro economy and the financial system. He is the associate editor of the international Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment and workstreams coordinator of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). He is a member of the Green Development Expert Committee of the China Insurance Association for 2060 carbon neutrality target and serves on the global Advisory Committee for the GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR^®) Certificate program.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Tianyin SUN worked with China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), ETH Singapore Research Center, ThinkStep AG in Germany, UNEP Collaborating Research Center, and the UN Headquarters in New York. 

Dr. Tianyin SUN has published more than a dozen high-profile academic journal articles in the field of environmental risk and green finance, several of which have been featured as ESI "highly cited" papers. His personal Google Scholar citations have now exceeded 2,600.

 Dr. Tianyin SUN holds a Ph.D degree in natural science from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Jakob Thomä is the SOAS Professor in in practice and research director at the 2° Investing Initiative. He co-founded the 2° Investing network in New York and Berlin and manages the think tank’s research on 2°C scenario analysis for financial institutions and companies.

Thomä led the development of the first 2°C scenario analysis tool for financial portfolios, which is now applied by financial institutions worldwide. In addition, he leads the organization’s partnerships with financial supervisors and governments, including serving as academic advisor to the Bank of England in 2017-2018.

He holds a doctorate in finance from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, and teaches a green finance course at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Michael is Executive Director and Professor of Practice at the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College Business School. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow for Sustainable Finance at S&P Global Ratings and a Visiting Lecturer in sustainable finance at Cambridge University Judge Business School.

Michael is a senior sustainable finance professional with 28 years’ experience in sustainable finance, corporate and infrastructure credit analysis, project finance, structured finance and carbon markets.  From 2016-21 he was a member of the Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and currently is on the GARP Sustainability & Climate Risk Certification Advisory Committee. He remains a member of the UK Centre for the Greening of Finance & Investment (CGFI) and Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI) as well as a Co-Director of the Singapore Green Finance Centre.  Michael has both executive management and non-executive board experience as well as a long record of public speaking, publishing and guest lecturing on sustainable finance, climate change, project finance and credit risk analysis.

He holds a BA (Joint Hons) in Modern Languages (Bristol University), Executive MBA (Bayes Business School) and postgraduate certificates in Carbon Finance & Analytics (London Business School) and Credit Analysis (NYU).