ESG and climate risk management workshop

Mostafa Monira Firdouse is an experienced and seasoned development impact and sustainability specialist. She has more than 10 years of experience in handling resource efficiency, gender and sustainability projects, development impact measurement and reporting to Asia & Pacific stakeholders. 

 

She was also a part-time Lecturer in The Metropolitan University of Hong Kong, teaching Environmental Economics and Environmental Management System. Leveraging her industrial and academic experience, she was an active research associates in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University CESEF Research Unit with a special interest in Environment and Social Governance (ESG) Methodology and Future of ESG in Hong Kong. 
As well as her IFC role, Monira holds the following industry positions: 
• Green Finance Specialist in Friends of the Earth, FoE (HK)
• Bangladesh High Commission of Hong Kong, Special Adviser, Bangladesh investment generation. 

 

Monira advises governments, organisations and companies across all sectors on climate finance, environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk within investments and business operations. Her work covers ESG integration, climate change policy and mitigation, responsible investment and green finance, as well as sustainability strategy and implementation.

Ms Claudia Marcusson is a sustainability and climate-tech expert with a stellar career in financial services, education, entrepreneurship and innovation.

As an advisor, she works with corporations and scale-up founders to solve the conundrum between sustainability and profitability focusing specifically on forward-looking business models, product-market-fit and internationalisation. She is an investment advisor to impact VC funds in Europe and Singapore and a mentor and strategic advisor to several accelerators in Singapore, Germany, Korea and India.

Claudia has over 22 years of financial industry expertise in investment management, insurance, banking and FinTech having worked in the US, UK, Germany, The Netherlands and Singapore. She worked in various leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank, ING, NN Group, ABN AMRO, and State Street Bank to name a few. She led numerous banking-wide innovation and client co-creation initiatives with a focus on sustainability and financial technology. Thanks to her prior role as chief risk officer at ING Investment Management APAC she understands how to effectively mitigate risks in a contextualised manner. 

Since 2018, Claudia has been an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore focusing on green technology and sustainability, Fintech and corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. She gives training and masterclasses to corporates and C-suite executives and is a guest lecturer at Singapore Management University, Emeritus, SP Jain School of Global Management and Singapore Academy of Law.

Claudia holds an LL.M. degree in Chinese Business Law as well as an M.Sc. in Economics and Operations Research. She is a licensed instructor and expert in human-centred design and design thinking, lean start-up, agile methods and a certified SCRUM Master.