OUR GUEST in S1E10: Martina Macpherson, Head of ESG Strategy and Global Management Committee Member, ODDO BHF Asset Management.
I am pleased to welcome to the ESG and Coffee Podcast my next investor guest, Martina Macpherson for a long form interview in our series, “The Originals”. Her bio reads “@MN_Macpherson: “Board member and senior expert in ESG and sustainable investing - for #integrated financial and social outcomes. All views are my own.” and on LinkedIn “Martina Macpherson, FICRS, has a long-term track record in sustainable investing. She has been recognised as a strategic influencer (Commetric ESG Influencer Index, 2020, 2021; Modern Slavery Influencer Index, 2018) for her ESG strategy, product and research work in industry and academia. Martina is Head of ESG Strategy at ODDO BHF AM & PE, and President of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets. In 2014, she founded SI Partners Ltd., an ESG investment content, research and analytics firm. Prior to that, she has held a range of senior global research, risk mgt., business and product development roles at Moody's ESG Solutions, S&P Global Inc., MSCI ESG Research and Lloyds Banking Group - Insight Investment. Earlier in her career, she worked for F&C Asset Management and Deutsche Bank. She is a visiting fellow at Henley Business School and a guest lecturer at University of Zurich. She is an advisory board member at ROSIF, the Sustainable Investment Forum for Eastern Europe and at the European Law Institute (ELI). She co-chairs ICMA's AMIC SFDR working group and World Benchmarking Alliance's Just Transition coalition.”
We first met: I first met Martina in the mid-2000s, probably when I was leading the Principles for Responsible Investment emerging markets project from the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative in Geneva, Switzerland. I have always noted at least two attributes of Martina: firstly, her collaborative approach working across silos and logos in whatever initiative she was working in, and secondly, a curiosity and energy to move the ball forward, pressing at the edges of what needs to happen next.
Stay after the close for our BONUS TAPE where we talk briefly about the need for collaboration and aligning of academia and NGOs, being present at the decision making tables, and how to get humans like Martina in the investment committees of her alma maters in Scotland and Germany, as well as the business of investment and where performance fees play a role.
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