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Q&A with Martina MacPherson, Head of ESG Strategy and Member of the General Management Committee at ODDO BHF AM and PE

Media 7 | August 16, 2021

Martina MacPherson, Head of ESG Strategy and Member of the General Management Committee at ODDO BHF AM and PE, and President of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets. In 2014, she founded SI Partners Ltd., an ESG investment content, research, and analytics firm. Prior to that, she has held a range of senior global research, risk mgt., business, and product development roles at Moody's ESG Solutions, S&P Global Inc., MSCI ESG Research, and Lloyds Banking Group - Insight Investment. Earlier in her career, she worked for F&C Asset Management and Deutsche Bank. Martina is a visiting fellow at Henley Business School and a guest lecturer at the University of Zurich. She is an advisory board member at ROSIF, the Sustainable Investment Forum for Eastern Europe, and at the European Law Institute (ELI). Previously, she was an analyst advisory board member at UKSIF, the UK’s sustainable investment and finance association. She also was a mentor at the Global Thinkers Forum, and at the ICRS. Martina is an award-winning multi-lingual writer, lecturer, and presenter on sustainable investment, risk management, and green finance themes and contributes regularly to industry and academic publications. She has participated in a range of sustainable investment and ‘green’ finance working groups such as Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute Sustainability WG, the Social Impact and Green Finance Initiatives by the UK Gov, CEPS' (EU), and the IIF/IMF's global sustainable finance working groups. She also contributed to the Sustainable Stock Exchanges’ and UK Gov's taskforce reports on sustainable finance, and CEPS' EU report on the restructuring of the Capital Markets Union. Most recently, she became a task force member of the UNGC SDG CFO technical expert group, ICMA's Climate Transition Finance working group, and of the EDM Council's working group on sustainable