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Bridget is an accomplished sustainable finance specialist and investment banker with over a decade of experience advising investors, managing partnerships, leading teams, and aligning decision makers across organizations. Interviews and announcements of her work can be found in IRMagazine, Forbes, ESG Today, Securities Lending Times, and other financial news outlets.

Throughout her career, Bridget has created industry leading sustainable finance research and presented insights to institutional investors and corporate treasuries. She has applied quantitative methods to understand environmental, social, and governance (ESG) signals in the market, leveraged insights from academics, and led global client engagements on these topics. Her peer-reviewed research is published in the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Impact and ESG Investing.

Driven to facilitate sustainable economies, Bridget isa member of the Boston Economic Club and chapter leader emeritus of Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy. Previously, she sat on BSR’s Sustainability Principles and Objectives Framework Advisory Council and served as an advisor to Columbia University's Trustees, as a voting member of the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing, among other industry advisory positions.

She holds a B.A. from The George Washington University, a Certificate in Sustainability Analytics from Columbia University, and a M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. She is FINRA SIE, 63, and 79licensed.

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Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School. His research, teaching, and writing focus on climate risks and climate policy.

Gernot writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate and has written five books, including, most recently: Geoengineering: the Gamble, published by Polity (2021); Stadt, Land, Klima (“City, Country, Climate”), published, in German, by Brandstätter Verlag (2021); Climate Shock, joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton (2015), among others, a Top 15 FT McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015, and Austria’s Natural Science Book of the Year 2017; and But will the planet notice?, published by Hill & Wang/Farrar Strauss & Giroux (2011).

Prior to joining Columbia as senior lecturer and serving as faculty director of the Climate Knowledge Initiative, Gernot taught at NYU, Harvard, and Columbia. He was the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program (2016 – 2019), and served as economist at the Environmental Defense Fund (2008 – 2016), most recently as lead senior economist (2014 – 2016) and member of its Leadership Council (2015 – 2016). Before EDF, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf and New York and wrote for the Financial Times leader writer team in London. He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow at the Jain Family Institute, and is a CEPR research fellow, a CESifo faculty fellow, a Faculty Affiliate at the Columbia Center for Environmental Economics and Policy, a Member of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a Coordinating Lead Author of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change, and he serves on the board of CarbonPlan.org.

Born and raised in Amstetten, Austria, Gernot graduated from high school in his hometown before moving to the U.S. for college. He holds a joint bachelor’s magna cum laude with highest honors in environmental science, public policy, and economics, and a master’s and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard, as well as a master’s in economics from Stanford.

Gernot lives in New York City with his wife, Siri Nippita, a gynecologist at NYU Langone Health and the chief of the family planning division as well as the director of Reproductive Choice at Bellevue Hospital, and their two young children.

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Strategic, results-driven commercial leader with extensive experience scaling high-growth SaaS, fintech, and analytics businesses. I have a proven track record of leading enterprise sales transformations, driving sustainable revenue growth, and executing impactful go-to-market strategies. As part of leadership teams, I was responsible for the commercial operations of two London-based fintech companies that were successfully acquired. More recently, as a Partner and SVP at IHS Markit, I contributed to the company’s journey to going public on the Nasdaq exchange. My career has been dedicated to scaling commercial franchises by building deep customer networks and fostering strong, collaborative teams.

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Mili Fomicov is a Teaching Fellow and leads clean energy research at the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Imperial College London. She also works on transition finance frameworks and teaches Clean Technology Investment. She is a Co-Director for the Singapore Green Finance Climate Academy. Before joining Imperial College, she was a Director and Portfolio Manager in the Multi-Asset Strategies team at BlackRock. Previously, Mili was a Portfolio Manager on J.P.Morgan's CIO team, and managed US and Japan equity funds at Barclays. She started her career at Alliance Bernstein in the US. Graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she received an MBA in Finance, Economics, Econometrics and Statistics. She is on the Spark Change Advisory Board and CFA Climate Investing panel.

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Robert Ritz is an economist at Cambridge University where he co-directs the Energy Policy Research Group at Judge Business School and is a Fellow in Economics at Peterhouse. Robert is a member of the Academic Panel at Ofgem, Britain’s electricity and gas regulator, and previously served in this role at the Competition & Markets Authority, the UK’s competition body. He holds a D.Phil. from Nuffield College, Oxford, has been a visiting scholar at MIT and the IMF, and has taught economics at Oxford and Cambridge for over 15 years.

Robert advises corporates, governments, and financial institutions as a Principal at Vivid Economics (now part of McKinsey Sustainability). Earlier in his career, he worked at the Bank of England, the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and McKinsey & Company. His research has been featured in major international news media including the The Economist and the Financial Times.

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