Resource and Environment Sessional Webinar - Climate Scenario Analysis

Chair: Louise Pryor 

Louise has had a varied career as an actuary, software engineer and academic. She is currently Chair of the London Climate Change Partnership, which focuses on adaptation to climate risks, a Non-Executive Director of the Ecology Building Society, and the incoming President-Elect of the IFoA.

Speakers:

Lisa Eichler
Co-head Climate & ESG Solutions at Ortec Finance
Lisa dedicates her efforts to mainstreaming climate change across the investment decision process by integrating responsible investment data and methodologies into mainstream financial technology and solutions. In her role at Ortec Finance she has been innovating and driving the development of integrated climate & ESG solutions for our institutional investor clients worldwide. Lisa is also actively involved in various networks including the technical development of the Open-Source Climate platform, the codebase development of the SBTi -Finance portfolio temperature alignment tool, as well as working groups on climate scenario analysis under the UN PRI, NGFS, IIGCC.

Lisa has focused her studies and career on facilitating the interactions between science and policy providing analysis and advice on topics relevant for the transition towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Lisa earned her Master of Science in Environmental Management and Masters of Arts in Global Public Policy at Duke University, USA.

Claire Jones
Claire is an actuary with approximately 20 years’ experience spanning pensions, investment and sustainability. She is a partner and Head of Responsible Investment at LCP where she helps clients to include environmental, social and governance factors in their investment processes, with the aim of delivering sustainable long-term financial returns.

Claire was a member of the IFoA Resource and Environment Board from January 2014 to August 2019. She is a former Chair of the Board’s Research and CPD Subcommittee and established the working party that produced a Practical Guide to Resource and Environment issues for Pensions Actuaries. She represents the IFoA on the Pensions Climate Risk Industry Group.

Nick Spencer, MA FIA
Nick is a sustainable investment strategist. He founded Gordian Advice to help UK Pension Funds integrate responsible investment into their investment strategies and portfolios.  In under two years, Gordian Advice has helped a range of corporate DB, LGPS and DC clients who are responsible for over £100 bn in assets. Before Gordian Advice, Nick led the strategic advice for large EMEA institutions at Russell Investments and was their EMEA lead on Responsible Investing. 

Nick is the Deputy Chair of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) Resource & Environment Board and co-Chair of the IFoA’s Climate-related risk taskforce.  Nick was a member of the Resource & Environmental Issues for Defined Benefit Pension Actuaries Working Party and a co-author of “Climate change considerations for actuarial financial assumptions and the role of scenario analysis”. 

 Nick is a passionate believer on the importance of values & culture and an advocate for aligning the asset management industry with a broad societal purpose. He was Co-chair of Russell Investments’ EMEA Diversity & Inclusion committee & is an Ambassador for the Diversity Project. He is also an affiliate of Pensions for Purpose. 

Andrew Claringbold
Andrew is a Scheme Actuary working for Aon, advising pension schemes on how to manage risk, including that from climate change. Andrew was a member of the Resource & Environmental Issues for Defined Benefit Pension Actuaries Working Party and also a co-author of “Climate change considerations for actuarial financial assumptions and the role of scenario analysis”.  Andrew also helped Aon develop their climate change scenarios.

Bert Kramer
Bert Kramer joined Ortec Finance in 1995. His current position is business specialist Climate & ESG Solutions. Bert Kramer also holds a position at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, where he teaches the Econometrics Master course Asset Liability Management (ALM), and where he supervises Econometrics and Finance students writing their Master thesis. He holds a master degree in Econometrics and a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Groningen, both passed cum laude. He has held an Assistant Professor of Finance position at Tilburg University, and was a lecturer at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate. He was awarded the Ernst Meyer Prize 1997 from the Geneva Association for the best European research in the field of insurance economics. Within Ortec Finance his fields of expertise are climate finance and ALM for insurance companies,