How To Build Effective Climate Scenarios: A Live Demo for Risk Professionals

Jo has worked on a variety of risk areas at GRI, including stress testing, operational resilience, model risk management, and climate and environmental risk. Jo’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 U.K.’s first concurrent stress test in 2014.

Jo 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.

Katherine Markova leads Partnerships at Climate Interactive. Prior to joining Climate Interactive Katherine worked as a climate consultant, supporting large corporations with greenhouse gas accounting, target-setting and renewable energy procurement. Katherine started her career at a Big 4 accounting firm where she advised global clients on a range of accounting and tax matters.