How to Integrate Climate into Credit Risk

Ed leads the implementation of LGPS Central net-zero programme, which covers public and private asset classes as well as OECD and emerging markets. Prior to joining LGPS Central, Ed was head of climate policy at PRI and a member of UN convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance secretariat, where he led PRI’s work on climate-related disclosure, the Inevitable Policy Response, and public policy. Before joining PRI, Ed work for the UK Foreign Office and was awarded an MBE for his service to UK–Chinese relations on green finance.

As President of GARP Risk Institute, Jo Paisley helps lead research and thought leadership for GARP and the broader risk community.

Jo Paisley’s career began at the Bank of England where she worked in various economist roles, ran the Statistics Division and spent the last part of her career in Supervision. Her last role was as a Director of the Supervisory Risk Specialist Division within the Prudential Regulation Authority. This area provided deep technical risk expertise to front line supervisors across all risk disciplines, covering banking and insurance. She was also 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, where she was responsible for ensuring that they met all their regulatory stress testing requirements around the world. She has also worked as an independent stress testing consultant, advising firms on how to get the most value out of stress testing. Jo studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, before completing her MPhil in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Simon Dietz is an environmental economist with particular interests in climate change and sustainability. He has published research on a wide range of issues and works with governments, businesses and NGOs on topics of shared interest, such as carbon pricing, institutional investment, and insurance. Simon is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is Professor of Environmental Policy in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the Department of Geography and Environment. He is also Research Director of the LSE Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Centre, co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a CEPR Research Fellow, a CESifo Research Network Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a former Vice President and Council Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and was a Food System Economics Commissioner.