Climate-Related Financial Reporting Conference

Frameworks, Risks, Implementation and Opportunities

2-3 April 2019

St John’s College, Cambridge, UK

The Climate-Related Financial Reporting Conference will discuss frameworks, risks, implementation issues and opportunities associated with climate-related financial reporting.

Topics are designed for financial officers, risk officers, strategic managers, enterprise risk managers, investors, regulators, insurers, accountants, auditors and accounting academics who are interested in understanding the development progress and potential impact of near- and longer-term initiatives to report the implications of global climate change on potential financial performance, the implications of firms’ decisions on global climate change, and the degree of firms’ interactions with and dependencies upon stocks of natural capital.

The conference includes a dinner in the Hall at St John’s College, with a keynote speech by Hans Hoogervorst, Chairman of the IASB.

Keynote speaker

Hans Hoogervorst Chairman, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)

Speakers and moderators

Charles Allison Partner, Energy and Climate Services, ERM
Hannah Armitage Project Manager, Financial Reporting Lab at the Financial Reporting Council
Matthew Arnold Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Finance, JP Morgan Chase
Ed Baker Senior Policy Advisor, UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Nick Blyth Policy & Practice Lead, IEMA
Dr Katherine Bolt Senior Economist, RSPB Natural Capital Hub Co-Manager, Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Emily Booth MBA Candidate, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Professor Hui Chen Professor of Accounting, University of Zurich
Dr Jenny Chu Deputy Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability
Simon Connell Head, Sustainability Strategy, Standard Chartered Bank
Ian Dickie Director, eftec
Alison Dundjerovic Technical Manager and Financial Reporting Thought Leadership, ICAEW
John Firth CEO and Co-founder, Acclimatise Group
Ulrik Fugmann Partner, Sustainable Solutions
Jeff Hales Chair, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Vanessa Havard-Williams Partner, Global Head of Environment, Linklaters LLP
Professor Alan Jagolinzer Professor of Financial Accounting Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability
Paul Jefferiss Head of Policy, BP
Douglas Johnston Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability, EY
Professor Bjorn Jorgensen Professor of Accounting & Financial Management, London School of Economics
Jean-Baptiste Juery Founder, Clean-Transition Project
Ani Kavookjian Sustainable Business & Finance, Bloomberg
Conor Kehoe Senior Partner Emeritus, Special Advisor, McKinsey
Mike Knight Senior Advisor, Carbon Tracker
Professor Philipp Krüger Associate Professor of Finance, University of Geneva Junior Chair, Swiss Finance Institute
Natasha Landell-Mills Head of Stewardship, Sarasin & Partners
Manuel Lewin Head of Risk Strategy and Reporting, Group Risk Management, Zurich Insurance Company
Youri Lie Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, EY
Martin Lok Deputy Director, Natural Capital Coalition
Dr Thomas Maddox Natural Capital Hub Co-Manager, Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Genevieve Marjoribanks Head of Department, Financial Conduct Authority
Mardi McBrien Managing Director, Climate Disclosure Standards Board
Dr Matt McCarten Spatial Finance Lead, University of Oxford Smith School
Troy Mortimer Director, Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment, KPMG UK
Gerhard Mulder Finance Lead, Climate Adaptation Services
Miroslav Petkov Director, Head of Financial Services Environmental and Climate Risk Research, S&P Global Ratings
Russell Picot Chair of Trustee board of the HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Fund Director of LifeSight Senior Associate, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Paul Pritchard Adviser on Sustainability
Corinne Raux Chief Executive, The Environmental and Social Agency for Financiers
Professor Stefan Reichelstein Endowed Chair in Business Administration, University of Mannheim Business School
Delaney Reynolds Climate-scientist-activist and marine biology student, University of Miami
Gordon Rogers Head of Sustainability, Yorkshire Water
Greg Rogers Specialist in Climate Strategy & Disclosure Partner, Eratosthenes Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School
Zsuzsanna Schiff Manager Audit and Reporting, Financial Services Faculty, ICAEW
Robert Schuwerk Executive Director, North America, Carbon Tracker
Dr Nina Seega Research Director for Sustainable Finance, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Helen Slinger Executive Director, Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
Richard Spencer Head of Sustainability, ICAEW
Amanda Swaffield Director, Deloitte UK National Accounting and Audit
Jakob Thomae Managing Director, 2° Investing Initiative
Felix van Veldhoven Consultant, Climate Adaptation Services
Chris White Principal Environmental Economist, AECOM
Michael Wilkins Managing Director, Sustainable Finance, S&P Global Ratings TCFD member
Jon Williams Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC
Dr Michael Willis Director, Cambridge Master of Accounting Programme

Download the schedule (last updated 25 March 2019)

The Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability are partnering with ICAEW, the University of Zurich Accounting Faculty and the Centre for Sustainable Finance at the Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge.

Directions

> Directions to St John’s College

Hotels within walking distance of St John’s College

> The Varsity (3 mins walk)

> DoubleTree by Hilton (11 mins walk)

> Hotel du Vin (13 mins walk)

Airports

The closest airports to Cambridge are:

London Stansted Airport (40 mins by car)
London Luton Airport (1 hour 5 mins by car)
London Heathrow Airport (1 hour 30 mins by car)
London Gatwick Airport (1 hours 45 mins by car)

There are direct trains between Cambridge and both Stansted Airport and Gatwick Airport (though the former are more frequent). The train between Cambridge and Luton Airport involves changing at London King’s Cross/St Pancras train station. If arriving at Heathrow Airport, get on the Underground and take the Piccadilly line to London King’s Cross train station to catch a train to Cambridge. There’s a taxi rank outside Cambridge station, with the journey into the centre of town taking about 10 minutes.

Alternatively National Express have coaches making regular trips from all four London airports to central Cambridge, or you can book a taxi or minibus online from a company such as Jewels Airport Transfers.

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