Max is a Senior Consultant in Deloitte’s Sustainable Finance team. Prior to joining Deloitte, Max spent four years at the Alternative Investment Management Association, where he specialised in the implementation of responsible investment in the hedge fund industry. Working with alternative investment managers, investors, and investment consultants, Max wrote a series of guides on responsible investment and alternative investment management, including on the use of short selling to hedge against ESG risks.

A native of Vancouver, Canada, Max holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Áine is head of KnowTheChain and Investor strategy at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, a position she has newly joined after working with the Responsible Investment NGO ShareAction on its programme, the Workforce Disclosure Initiative. Whilst there, she built a coalition of investors pushing for increased corporate transparency, disclosure and accountability around workforce practices, human and labour rights – part of the S of ESG. She has also recently completed a secondment with the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), developing the draft standards for the CSRD.

Ray is a sustainability professional and leads Wallbrook’s effort on climate as well as on sustainable finance. He joined us after a decade at WWF, the global environmental NGO, where he led the UK's sustainable finance team. His focus at WWF was on spatial finance, policy and regulatory work on climate and environment, thematic leadership on areas such as biodiversity and food finance, deforestation risk, as well as broader systemic change in global finance.

Ray was instrumental in the production of Our Planet: Too Big to Fail, a multi award winning film produced by Silverback Films. Ray has also led projects for WWF with global pension funds on climate scenario modelling as well as successful engagement with the finance sector for protection of World Heritage Sites.

Previously, Ray spent eight years in the global markets division of Merrill Lynch in New York specializing in foreign exchange and short interest rates. He led senior relationships with hedge fund and real money clients from around the world and, later, also made markets and held risk positions for the global Bank.

Ray holds a BSc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a MSc. in Environment & Development from the London School of Economics. He currently also sits on two non-executive boards. He is a member of Parmenion’s Ethical Oversight Committee as well as WHEB Asset Management’s Advisory Committee.

He speaks some Spanish, French, and Gujarati and when not delving into the exciting field of sustainable finance, can be found laughing somewhere with his two children, walking in nature, or playing a quick game of tennis.

Mike Hoffmann is a conservation biologist based at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) where he leads several large initiatives focused on wildlife recovery and monitoring. He has extensive experience in international species conservation and biodiversity-related policy, and has been involved in helping launch or support several major conservation partnerships, including the IUCN Red List and IUCN Green Status of Species, Key Biodiversity Areas, the Alliance for Zero Extinction, EDGE, SMART, the Universal Ranger Support Alliance and more. He has a particular interest in understanding and demonstrating how conservation efforts affect global trends in wildlife, and the actions needed to foster recovery into the future.

Marcus is a professional trustee, who has been solving pension problems for 25 years. He founded ndapt in 2020 with a focus on delivering positive change for pension funds, their sponsors, and the world around us.

ndapt has grown substantially over the last couple of years to 11 partners and 21 appointments. Their success is largely driven by a commercial approach to the management of pension funds and demonstrating tangible results for pension scheme members and their sponsors.

Adam Jacobs-Dean joined The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) in February 2013 and is Managing Director, Global Head of Markets, Governance and Innovation. Prior to joining AIMA, he worked at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), where he focused on European regulatory initiatives dealing with OTC derivatives markets, notably the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).
Adam started his career at the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA), where he worked in both policy and supervisory roles. He also undertook a number of projects for the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). In 2009 he was seconded from the FSA to the European Commission in Brussels, where he worked on Solvency II.
Adam has an MA in German and French from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in European Policy and Management from Birkbeck.

Fergus has extensive experience in public policy at UK and EU level, advocating for regulatory frameworks that help to create and maintain a sustainable and responsible investment system. He previously worked as Head of Public Policy for the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association and in Westminster for a range of MPs during the Coalition Government. Joining in November 2018, Fergus leads on all of ShareAction’s UK policy output and engagement with government and regulators.

Shannon Murphy is a Managing Director and the Head of Strategic Content at Jefferies. She spearheads the thought leadership offering for alternatives managers and speaks frequently at industry events on topics ranging from ESG/sustainability to changes in market structure or enterprise valuation. Prior to Jefferies, she oversaw the Prime Services Strategic Content offering at Credit Suisse. She also served as the Executive Director of Harvard’s Corporate Responsibility Initiative. She has degrees from MIT, Harvard Divinity School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate University.

Jacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen, which was established in 2001 to invest philanthropic patient capital in entrepreneurs seeking to solve the toughest issues of poverty, and a recognized leader and innovator in the social impact sector. As a pioneer of impact investing, Acumen has invested more than $146 million of patient capital into 151 companies affecting the lives of nearly 400 million people across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the United States. Acumen also has launched four for-profit funds, including KawiSafi, a nearly $70 million impact fund focused on off-grid solar energy in East Africa, and ARAF, a first-of-its-kind $58 million fund focused on helping smallholder farmers mitigate the impacts of climate change.

After supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs, Jacqueline and her team understand that character is a crucial ingredient for success. In 2020, they launched Acumen Academy to support leaders on their journey of global social change. To date, the organization has built a corps of 1000+ Fellows, and more than 500,000 individuals from 193 countries have taken Acumen Academy’s online courses.

As the New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Sweater and Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World, Jacqueline also sits on the board of the Aspen Institute and 60 Decibels, as well as on a variety of advisory boards. She has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes, which also honoured her with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship. She lives in New York with her husband.