Programme

• Time
• Title

• Registration with coffee

• Introduction and moderation

  • Robin Wigglesworth, Editor Financial Times Alphaville

• The state of affairs for nature

  • Dag Hessen, Professor of Biology at University of Oslo

• Assessing climate risk with scenarios

  • Glen Peters, Research Director at CICERO

• Coffee break

• Why is understanding complex adaptive systems important for ESG?

  • Anne Maria (Mia) Eikeset, Lead Researcher at NBIM

• Panel on biodiversity

  • Anne Maria (Mia) Eikeset, Lead Researcher at NBIM
    Zhihan Ma, Global Head of ESG at Bernstein
    Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management
    Robin Wigglesworth, Editor Financial Times Alphaville.

• Lunch

• Sustainable Alpha

  • Andrew Ang, Managing Director at Blackrock and former Professor of Finance at Columbia University.
    
    Moderator: Lars Qvigstad Sørensen, Senior portfolio manager at Storebrand Asset Management

• Coffee break

• ESG: To exclude or to engage?

  • Zhihan Ma, Global Head of ESG at Bernstein
    
    Moderator: Isabelle Juillard Thompsen, CFA, Portfolio Manager at DNB Asset Management

• ESG: The Beginning, The End, and The Future

  • Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at LBS
    
    Moderator: Annie Bersagel is Portfolio Manager ESG at Folketrygdfondet, manager of the Government Pension Fund Norway.

• Closing remarks

  • Paul Ehling, Professor of Finance at BI Norwegian Business School