Sustainable Finance &
Climate Risk Event

Ronald Wuijster (1966, Dutch) has been appointed as Executive Board Member of APG Group NV as of March 2018, and has also been a member of the APG AM Management Board since February 2010 and CEO APG AM since May 2017.

Ronald Wuijster has thirty years of experience in the investment world, including twenty years in executive and managing director roles. He has held a number of top positions at APG since 2006, including Managing Director Strategic Portfolio Management and Chief Investment Officer. He is responsible for the asset management portfolio and as such is ultimately responsible for advising on and implementing the investment policy of the pension funds serviced by APG. The APG Group manages €620 billion in pension assets and ensures that over 4.7 million people can be confident that their accrued pension rights are being invested, administered, and paid out correctly.

Before joining APG, he held various managing directorships at Robeco, in the areas of corporate strategy, development, equities, private equity and research, among other positions. Ronald Wuijster is currently Chairman of DUFAS (Dutch Fund and Asset Management Association), a board member of FCLTGlobal and co-chair WEF Biodiversity Finance Initiative World Economic
Forum 2022.

Brenda Kramer works as Senior Advisor Responsible Investment at the Dutch asset manager PGGM. At PGGM she currently leads the team responsible for the implementation of the new EU Sustainable Finance Legislation (including SFDR and EU taxonomy) for PGGM and its clients. Up to October 2022 she was a core member of the European Platform on Sustainable Finance and the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. Brenda regularly speaks at conferences around sustainable finance and is also guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Since September 2022 she serves as a member of the Investor Advisory board of the International Sustainability Standards Board. Due to her role in the development of the European taxonomy she was listed in the top 50 most influential women in Sustainable Finance in 2021 and 2022. Previously Brenda worked 10+ years as strategic advisor for the Dutch Finance Ministry, the President of the Eurogroup and the Central Bank, gaining deep expertise on European and national legislation and politics. She is driven by the ambition to build a more sustainable world and increase consciousness around the way we spend and invest money.

Walter Faaij (1984) is a corporate anthropologist, culture consultant and keynote speaker. Walter founded Green Culture Lab in 2010 and is an expert on sustainability and corporate culture change. Walter helps companies and organizations to anchor sustainability in
their DNA and corporate culture. Because change is not only about technology and the business case, but much more about people.
Sustainability requires a collective mindshift, new behaviour and a culture change.

Walter is an experienced keynote speaker on sustainability, corporate culture and building cultures with sustainability at heart. His style is anthropological-exotic and corporate-pragmatic. Is curious to the bone, still hasn’t figured out why people do what they do. Loves to visit exotic places like Greenland, Spitsbergen or Mongolia.

Tineke is professor Corporate Law bij Nyenrode Business Universiteit. Zij initieert envoert kwalitatief actieonderzoek uit op het gebied van maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen (MVO). Haar onderzoek omvat onderzoeksprojecten over de rol van institutionele investeerders bij het investeren in biodiversiteit en ecosystemen; de rol van ondernemingsraden bij MVO; bijdrage van bedrijven aan de millenniumdoelstellingen voorontwikkeling via MDG-publiek-private samenwerkingen; business & human rights: normen, due diligence,conflictpreventie en mediation. Daarnaast is zij ook als associate professor werkzaam voor de UniversiteitUtrecht bij Research Centre for Water, Oceans & Sustainability Law. Zij is tevens lid van de Round Table ofWorldconnectors.

Mirjam Bani – Sectoreconoom commercieel Vastgoed – is sinds 2017 werkzaam als Econoom bij ING Research. Hier houdt ze zich bezig met de conjuncturele en structurele trends op de vastgoedmarkt, en richt zich hier vooral op Nederland. De verduurzamingsopgave voor en klimaatadaptatie van de vastgoedmarkt zijn binnen haar functie belangrijke onderzoeksthema’s

Andres is an Associate Director and Practice Lead for Sustainable Finance at South Pole, where he leads the team supporting the transition of financial products and services toward the low-carbon economy by providing climate-related scientific data and strategy advice in three main areas: environmental impact analysis of financial products, regulatory and voluntary climate disclosure, and decarbonisation for FIs. His previous roles specialised in the application of the Global GHG Accounting Standard for the Financial Industry and development of physical and transition risk assessment approaches for investment and lending activities. 

Erik Breen (1972) has the ambition to (re) connect the power of (institutional) capital with the beneficiaries’ non-financial values through a realistic business-driven approach. He has 24 years’ experience in asset management, especially in integrating finance and sustainability. He held (or holds) various positions with Robeco, Triodos Investment Management and auxiliary functions with Eumedion, ICGN and Integrated Reporting. He has been at the forefront of global developments in corporate governance, responsible investment, stewardship and sustainability and impact investing. He has international experience as board member in developing and challenging strategy, in promoting effective risk oversight and in fostering open board cultures. In 2019, he founded Infinsus, which is his own consultancy firm dedicated to integrating finance and sustainability. He is now managing director at Dataland.

Het Partnership voor Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) Europe is een door de industrie geleid partnership om de transparantie en verantwoordingsplicht van de financiële sector t.a.v. het Parijsakkoord te vergemakkelijken. Tjeerd Krumpelman is voorzitter en een vooraanstaand leider op het gebied van klimaatfinanciering in Europa en heeft uitgebreide ervaring met emissieboekhouding en rapportage van financiële portefeuilles. Ook is hij Global Head of Business Advisory, Reporting & Engagement bij ABN AMRO, en lid van de PCAF Steering Committee.

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Johan Cruijff ArenA

Sustainable Finance & ESG Expert

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