Workshop - Sustainable Finance in the Bond Markets

The World Bank, an international development agency financing sustainable development projects in emerging and developing countries, issued the first ‘labeled bond’ in 2008 — a Green Bond for Scandinavian investors. This workshop will cover how that first green bond catalyzed a development in the bond markets where bond investors consider sustainability with their investments, and explicitly integrate environmental, social and governance criteria as part of their investment process.  It will also describe the evolution since then, with issuers and investors taking on a more holistic approach with sustainable bonds and will explain new products such as “outcome bonds”.
About our workshop instructors
Heike Reichelt is Head of Investor Relations and Sustainable Finance at the World Bank Treasury. Heike is responsible for managing relationships with bond investors, rating agencies and the financial media, and developing new bond products. She has more than 20 years of experience in finance – including in Germany, working at the development bank and in the private sector with a German commercial bank and asset manager.  Heike was recognized for her role in building sustainable capital markets as the 2017 recipient of the prestigious Joan Bavaria Award.
Scott Cantor is a Senior Financial Officer in the Investor Relations and Sustainable Finance team at the World Bank Treasury. Before joining the World Bank Treasury, he was an advisor to the World Bank CEO on Sustainable Development and regional issues and worked in the World Bank’s Climate and Carbon Finance Unit. Before joining the World Bank, he worked at the UN, and in the private sector in consulting and investment bank. He spent college summers as a bicycle rickshaw tour guide in Maryland, and a bus tour narrator in Washington, DC.

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