Launch Of Global Green Finance Index 8
Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 BST
Background: The eighth edition of the Global Green Finance Index provides the world’s most authoritative measure of the performance of financial centres in delivering green finance services.The report, assembled by combining the views of financial professionals from around the world, with quantitative data commissioned and curated from over 130 sources, uses advanced statistical techniques to map the global spread of green finance.
Agenda:
09:00 Welcome & Introduction, Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group
09:05 GGFI 8 Results, Mike Wardle, Director & Head Of Indices, Z/Yen Group
09:25 Commentary, Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group
09:35 Questions, Comments, And Answers
09:55 Concluding Remarks
10:00 Close
Speakers:
Mike Wardle is a Director and the Head Of Indices for Z/Yen Group, managing work on the development and delivery of the Global Financial Centres Index, Global Green Finance Index, and Smart Centres Index. Mike worked as a civil servant for almost 20 years mostly within the field of education policy. He was a director and then Chief Executive of the General Social Care Council, establishing the regulation of social workers. Mike’s career moved into consultancy, programme management and coaching and he worked with Z/Yen for six years delivering programme management services to the Church of England, Unison, and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust before taking up his current role.
Chairman:
Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI(Hon) FBCS, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group, is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin. Michael gained his PhD at the London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor of Innovation & IT. Michael is Emeritus Professor & Life Fellow at Gresham College where he created the London Finance initiative asking “when would we know our financial system is working?” His third book, The Price Of Fish: A New Approach To Wicked Economics And Better Decisions, won the Independent Publisher Book Awards Finance, Investment & Economics Gold Prize. Michael is an Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London 2019-2021.