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Tobias Herwig

Chief Risk Officer, Swiss Life, Deutschland

Tobias Herwig is the Chief Risk Officer at Swiss Life Re. He started his career with an apprenticeship as a banker, followed by a degree in business administration with a focus on finance and accounting at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He then did his doctorate there at the Graduate School “Finance and Monetary Economics” and studied “Mathematical Finance” in England at the University of Oxford. Born in Göttingen, he completed his studies with a Master of Science degree and has since worked for Allianz and Swiss Life.

Ralph Markert

Actuarial Risk Management and Compliance, Uniqa

Ralph Markert is the Chief Risk Officer at UNIQA. He is a data-driven and results-oriented re-/insurance professional with more than 12 years of experience in actuarial, risk management and compliance with long-term view on operational and strategic impact. He provides Project-based support for business units of the UNIQA Group in actuarial or risk management tasks.

Ottmar Edenhofer

professorship of the Economics of Climate Change, Technical University of Berlin

Nicole Tadje

ESG Investment and Strategic Projects, Talanx

Michael Bruch

Innovative Emerging Risk and ESG, Allianz

Michael Bruch is an environmental and risk engineer and Global Head of Risk Consulting Liability and ESG strategy in Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) which is the Allianz entity for global business insurance and large corporate and specialty risks. In his current role he is responsible for the ESG strategy in P/C Business (Property and Casualty) of Allianz and steering the global Risk Consulting Liability team. The mission is to support Underwriting Liability, PI and Cyber Financial Lines, Liability Aviation and Claims teams with our risk engineering expertise, to optimize risk selection, to improve client’s risk management performance and to build sustainable customer relations and services.

Ludovic Subran

Chief Economist, Allianz

Ludovic Subran leads the Economic Research at Allianz SE and Euler Hermes. This unique team bridges top-notch research on countries, sectors, capital markets and trends to provide clients with best-in-class knowledge. Before joining Allianz, Ludovic worked for prestigious institutions such as the French Ministry of Finance, the United Nations and the World Bank. Ludovic also teaches economics at HEC Business School. Ludovic is ranked in the top 100 French leaders of tomorrow; he often shares analyses with clients and the media.

Kevin Petrovcik

Senior Client Portfolio Manager , Invesco

Kevin Petrovcik is a Senior Client Portfolio Manager for Invesco’s Global Senior Loan group. Heis responsible for the ongoing product development, structuring and marketing of investmentfunds for senior loans and alternative credit products.Mr. Petrovcik joined Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc. in 1999 to establish its productmanagement initiative and launch the organization’s first collateralized loan obligation.Previously, Mr. Petrovcik was director of Loan Pricing Corporation’s (Thomson Reuters LPC's)public data group, responsible for Reuters’ loan and high yield market commentary andanalytics, LPC’s flagship Gold Sheets publication, and the development of web-based loan andbond market analytical and research tools. While at LPC, he developed and launched Reuters’first fee-generating internet platform for analyzing and delivering loan and high yield marketnews and data, and also started the first loan market pricing service. Prior to that, Mr.Petrovcik worked at Bankers Trust Company in the management consulting group, where heimplemented a variety of risk control and strategic management projects, and in SalomonBrothers Inc.’s business planning department. Mr. Petrovcik began his career in 1988 as acorporate credit analyst with The First National Bank of Chicago, where he completed thecompany's credit analyst and credit officer training programs.

Jürgen Zattler

Executive Director, The World Bank

Dr Jürgen Zattler is Deputy Director General for Multilateral and European Policy in the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Before he was Head of the Division of World Bank and International Monetary Fund on debt related issues, and Deputy Head of Division for trade policy on World Trade Organization. His prior experience in the public and private sector includes the European Commission in Brussels, where he worked on macroeconomic issues related to developing countries and the Dresdner Bank in Berlin.

Julius Hansen

Dedicated Sustainability Officer, Talanx

Julius Hansen has been the senior manager for sustainability at Talanx AG for just over 3 years. Previously working as a Group Risk Manager and ESG analyst after finishing his studies in Corporate Responsibility. He has promoted sustainability transformation all throughout his career and believes ESG is something ‘we must all do together’.

Hülya Rielinger

Portfolio Manager, Zurich

Hülya Rielinger is the Strategic Assistant to Chief Underwriting Officer at Zurich group Germany. After finishing her Master of Science degree at the Technical University of Cologne she moved into product management followed by Portfolio Analyst and now works as a successful portfolio manager where she now manages and monitors various multi asset portfolios for the Zurich Group Germany.

Greg Davies

Behavioural Economist, Oxford Risk

Greg is a specialist in applied behavioural finance, impact investing, and financial wellbeing. He founded the banking world’s first behavioural finance team at Barclays in 2006, which he led for a decade. In 2017 he joined Oxford Risk to lead the development of behavioural software to help people make the best possible financial decisions.Greg holds a PhD in Behavioural Decision Theory from Cambridge; has held academic affiliations at UCL, Imperial, and Oxford; and is author of Behavioral Investment Management.

Esty Dwek

Head of Global Market Strategy , Natixis Investment Managers

Esty Dwek is an Investment Specialist based in Geneva, Switzerland, focusing on investment solutions across multiple asset classes offered by Natixis Investment Managers as well as on macroeconomic and market views.She has more than 10 years of experience in the financial industry.Before joining Natixis Investment Managers, Esty Dwek was a global strategist within the emerging markets team at Loomis, Sayles & Company, where her responsibilities included developing global macroeconomic and asset class views, as well as asset allocation ideas. She began her investment industry career in 2006 at HSBC Private Bank where she worked in Geneva, New York and Singapore and spent her last 6 years there as an investment strategist in London.Esty Dwek holds a BA in Political Science from Princeton University.

Emily McDonald

Investment Director, Aviva Investors

Emily is an investment director within the Credit Investment Specialist team. Emily works closely with the credit portfolio management teams to articulate their investment process, portfolio positioning and investment performance to clients and consultants around the world. Emily began her career at HBOS Treasury services, on the funding and liquidity money markets desk before completing a master’s degree in International Relations at UCL, then coming back to the markets to focus on selling a variety of fixed income instruments to European and UK real money managers first at Lloyds Banking Group, then at Credit Suisse. Emily graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree Economics.

Duncan Rooders

Behavioural Economist, Affective Advisory

Duncan Rooders is a strategic advisor to Affective Advisory. He is Managing Director of Matcorp Investments, a single family office focussed on private equity, buy-outs, acquisitions and growth capital investments, and at the same time PhD Candidate at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Duncan possesses an impressively diverse leadership experience, including piloting Boeing 747s as Relief Captain for 12 years before managing a leading Dutch single family office for more than 7 years. He holds an Executive Master (MSc) in Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics and a Master (MSc) in Leadership and Strategy from the London Business School. Moreover, Duncan is a graduate of the prestigious Harvard Owner President Management Program.

Daniela Coats

Group Investment Officer, Scor Switzerland

Benedikt Kalteier

Head of Strategy and Life-time Partner Transformation, Generali Deutschland

Andrea Bartoli

Head of ALM, Generali Österreich

Andrea Bartoli is currently the Head of ALM and SAA at Generali Österreich. He has almost 10 years experience in insurance and is an expert on ALM and SAA. Starting his studies in engineering he has worked his way through financial analysts roles at Generali Österreich and is passionate about finance and coding.

Alex Wharton

Head of Insurance Relationships, Aviva Investors

Alex is responsible for Aviva Investors’ third party insurance relationships, globally, He works in partnership with both life and general (re)insurers to identify capital efficient investment solutions across multiple regulatory and accounting regimes. Investment strategies are outcome orientated, often with a view to generating cash flow to meet and beat liabilities. Previously, Alex was a Director and Head of Insurance at Natixis Global Asset Management and before that spent over 8 years at the Financial Times. Alex has a BA (Hons) International Business and a Maîtrise(MA) in Finance.