Book Launch: Responsible Investment in Fixed Income Markets

Joshua Kendall is Head of Sustainable Fixed Income at Bloomberg, developing sustainable finance solutions for fixed income investors. Joshua is co-editor of the book Responsible Investment in Fixed Income, published by Routledge in 2022. Previously Joshua was Head of Responsible Investment Research and Stewardship at Insight Investment, a UK-headquartered investment manager and one of the world’s foremost fixed income investment managers. In this role, he applied responsible investment themes across fixed income activities, including stewardship, investment processes, portfolio management and strategy. Joshua has more than twelve years’ responsible investment experience, having held roles at MSCI, GMI Ratings and the Principles for Responsible Investment. He has written extensively on responsible investment and ESG issues, is a contributor to many industry initiatives, and is regularly interviewed by the trade and business press on sustainable investment issues. He holds an MSc from the University of London, a BA (Hons) from the University of Manchester and is completing the EMBA programme at Henley Business School. He also holds the Investment Management Certificate from the CFA Society of the UK, and helped to develop its ESG Certificate.

Rory Sullivan is CEO of Chronos Sustainability – a specialist advisory firm which delivers transformative, systemic change in the social and environmental performance of key industry sectors – and a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Rory is an internationally recognised expert on responsible investment,and has worked extensively with a range of organisations – including UNEP FI, the World Economic Forum, the Principles for Responsible Investment, the Transition Pathway Initiative, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the World Bank and Climate Action 100+ (CA100+)– to develop and implement global programmes on responsible investment. He has also supported many of the world’s leading asset owners and asset managers to develop and implement their responsible investment strategies. He is the author/editor of nine books, over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 50 book chapters on responsible investment and sustainability-related investment issues. Rory holds a PhD from the University of London, an MEL from the University of Sydney, an MSc from the University of Manchester and a BE from University College Cork.

Will Martindale is Group Head of Sustainability at Cardano, where he provides specialist input on all aspects of Cardano’s sustainability activities. He was previously Director of Policy and Research at PRI, the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, where he led PRI’s global regulatory affairs and public policy activities. Will has a background in banking, joining JPMorgan’s graduate programme in June 2004. In September 2010, Will joined French bank, BNP Paribas, as a business manager for their credit trading desk. Will holds a MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Maths from King’s College London.

My-Linh Ngo is Head of ESG Investment at BlueBay Asset Management. She has spent over two decades in the field of sustainable and responsible/ESG investing, working across equity and fixed income asset classes, on ESG focussed strategies and integrating ESG analysis into conventional portfolios. She currently heads up the incorporation of ESG factors and risks at BlueBay Asset Management, a specialist fixed income asset manager, overseeing the firm’s strategy, policies and practices in this area. My-Linh represents BlueBay externally in a range of committees and working groups focussed on driving best practice on ESG investing, particularly those focussed on the fixed income asset class. Her previous roles have been at Schroders Investment Management where she was an ESG Analyst, and at Henderson Global Investors where she was an Associate Director – SRI Research. She holds a Masters in Leadership for Sustainable Development from Middlesex University/Forum for the Future, a Masters in Environmental Management Systems & Auditing and a degree in Environmental Sciences, both from the University of East Anglia.

Professor Sean Kidney is the co-founder and CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) and Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance. Besides leading the CBI, Sean serves as a member of the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance; and as a member of a variety of government green finance advisory committees, in countries from Kazakhstan to the Congo. He has also been a member of the People’s Bank of China Green Finance Task Force; the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance; the Commonwealth Expert Group on Climate Finance; was co-Chair of the India Green Bonds Council; and has been a consultant on green bonds to the United Nations Secretary General. In 2016, Sean was named Environmental Finance magazine’s “Personality of the Year” and for the past three years has been GlobalCapital magazine’s “Most Influential Champion” of the sustainable finance market.

Caroline Horbrügger is a senior funding manager in KfW’s capital markets department with a strategic focus on green bonds. She is also part of KfW’s central sustainable finance project “tranSForm” and contributes to the implementation of a group-wide impact management system. Prior to rejoining the funding team, Caroline was a senior manager sustainable investment in KfW’s asset management where she was responsible for the continuous development of the approach for KfW’s green bond portfolio. Actively engaged in the Green Bond Principles, she has especially contributed to the work of the Impact Reporting working group and has been involved in the development of the Handbook Harmonized Framework for Impact Reporting. Caroline joined KfW in 2007 and was a manager in KfW’s funding team before moving to asset management. She holds a Master of Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Andrew Steel is Global Group Head of Sustainable Finance at Fitch, and created their ESG analysis framework. He has held several senior positions in Fitch including leading its Asia Pacific Corporate Ratings, EMEA Corporate Ratings and the EMEA energy, utilities, project finance and transportation analytical groups. Prior to Fitch Andrew ran ABN Amro’s project finance, power and utilities group. He has a background in private equity, energy, mezzanine financing, leveraged buy-outs and M&A lending and advisory. Whilst at Fitch, Andrew was an independent expert for the UN ECE on risk and sustainable energy development, and is currently an advisory committee member of the PRI credit ratings initiative. Andrew graduated in Psychology from Bristol University, and has a postgraduate diploma from INSEAD business school.