Planetary Health and global financial stability
Green Templeton Lectures 2024
Thursday 8 February 2024 17:00 to 18:45Speakers: |
Jo Paisley, GARP Risk Institute President |
Location: |
EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College |
Climate change is escalating risks across the financial system in the long and short term. How well is the system designed to cope with these escalating risks and how can it become more resilient while creating the context for investment in improving Planetary Health? The speakers will consider the challenges and raise important questions about the implications of climate change and other systemic risks for policy, institutions and organisations.
About the speakers
Jo Paisley is President of the GARP Risk Institute, the thought leadership arm of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Set up in early 2018, the Institute works across all risk disciplines, with her focus to date on climate risk management and scenario analysis, stress testing and operational resilience. She hosts GARP’s Climate Risk Podcast, which explores how climate change is impacting the world of business and finance, and what this means for risk management. Her career began at the Bank of England where she worked in a variety of roles, across macroeconomics, statistics, supervision and risk. Her last role was as a Director of the Supervisory Risk Specialists Division within the Prudential Regulation Authority, where she was heavily involved in the design and execution of the UK’s first concurrent stress test in 2014. She left the Bank in 2015 and joined HSBC as their Global Head of Stress Testing. She has also worked as an independent stress testing consultant, advising firms on how to get the most value out of stress testing.
Richard Barker is a full-time member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). He is on leave from the University of Oxford, where he served as Deputy Dean at Saïd Business School and is currently Professor of Accounting at and Senior Associate Research Fellow at Christ Church. He has published a wide range of academic research papers on accounting and sustainability disclosures. He has chaired the expert panel of Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) and served as a member of several committees and bodies focused on corporate reporting in the UK and Europe, including the UK Corporate Reporting Council (UK accounting standard-setter) and HM Treasury’s Financial Reporting Advisory Board.
Location
EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College
About the series
This is the first in the annual flagship Green Templeton Lectures 2024 on Planetary Health. The series will consider intersections with the stability of financial systems, economics beyond growth, and the legal process. The lectures will be convened by Research Fellow Dr SanYuMay Tun together with Governing Body Fellow Dr Marc Thompson and Research Fellow Dr Laurence Wainwright.
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More information
Please direct all queries about this event to academic.projects@gtc.ox.ac.uk.
Type: Lectures and Seminars
