Huw van Steenis – Keynote Speaker

Huw van Steenis til March 2022 was Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive of UBS and chair of the firm’s Sustainable Finance Steering Committee.

Prior to this, Huw was Senior Advisor to Mark Carney, when he was Governor at the Bank of England, leading a review on the future of finance with a particular focus on climate finance and fintech. The van Steenis Report led to a five pronged plan for the central bank announced by the Governor June 2019 including the world’s first climate “stress tests” for financial institutions.

Huw has been recognized as an influential investment strategist. Huw worked at Morgan Stanley for 14 years, spending much of his time there as Global Head Banks and Diversified Financials research. During this time, he and his teams won numerous awards including being voted #1 in investor surveys 12 times and twice Starmine’s stock picker of the year for financial services.

From 2016-2018, he served as Global Head of Strategy at Schroders on their Group Management Committee and Capital Committee. Huw writes regularly in the media on finance, sustainable investing and central banking.

Huw is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Finance, member of the Oxford University Endowment Investment Committee and Trustee of English National Opera.