Net Zero Investor’s Nature Positive Investment Forum 2025

Natalie is an accredited professional pension trustee and director of Law Debenture Pension Trust Corporation Plc.  She is trustee to DB, DC and hybrid schemes. Her trustee appointments include SEI MasterTrust, Tesco, Syngenta and DHL.

Natalie has worked in pensions for over 25 years with roles in pensions actuarial, investment consulting and asset management.  She is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and a CFA Charterholder.  She was awarded Fellowship of the CFA UK for her services to the investment industry.  She is a past Chair of the CFA UK.  She was shortlisted this year for a lifetime achievement award by Professional Pensions. 

Adam joined Railpen in October 2023. Prior to this, Adam spent ten years as an investment consultant and latterly as Head of Sustainable Investment at WTW.

Adam is experienced in leading global programmes to integrate sustainable investing content and delivery across research, fiduciary and advisory, working with a diverse asset owner client base both by region and investor type. A core focus of his work has been the strategic response to climate change, including as codified in net zero commitments and through industry collaborations. Adam started his career at KPMG, and is a qualified accountant and CFA charterholder.

In his role at Railpen, Adam will work as part of the Sustainable Ownership Team, leading the design and delivery of Railpen’s climate change programme, including Railpen’s Net Zero Plan and Net Zero Engagement Plan.

Based in London, Jo leads the development of the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII)’s research, which supports fixed income investors in aligning their portfolios to climate and sustainability goals.

Jo joined AFII from JPMorgan where she worked for 18 years in fixed income markets. She has extensive experience trading structured, flow and index credit products, and in the modeling and valuation of derivatives.

Jo has an MA Hons Mathematics & Management Studies from Trinity College Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Management Accountants. She serves as trustee and advisor to a number of charities and social enterprises in the UK.

Drew leads LCP’s responsible investment advice to DC clients, which includes advising some of the largest pension schemes in the country, as well as DC pension providers, on all aspects of their responsible investment strategy. This includes some of the first schemes to give their members exposure to private markets through an LTAF.

As a senior researcher at LCP, Drew is also deeply involved in assessing new investment products as they come to market, particularly where these might help investors to meet responsible investment objectives. As part of this, he designed LCP’s framework for assessing funds that invest at the nature interface. He also works closely with LCP Delta, LCP’s energy transition consultancy business, to help trustees and other asset owners to understand the risks and opportunities associated with the transition.

Eline Reintjes is a Climate and Nature Investment Strategy Manager at Aviva IWR focusing on nature and biodiversity risk within the CIO team. She also chairs the NZAOA Deforestation Woking Group. Prior to joining Aviva, Eline focused on sustainable finance policy and nature & Paris-aligned pathways for agriculture at FAIRR. Before that, she worked on corporate climate policy and negative lobbying for an NGO and looked at market manipulation and insider trading at the EU energy regulator. She holds an MA (Hons) in Economics and Chinese from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions from UCL.

Chris currently leads nature-related activities at Phoenix Group, focusing on developing the approach for understanding and assessing nature related risks across Phoenix investment portfolios as well as supporting the work to identify, define and integrate nature-related investment opportunities into existing investment strategy.  Prior to joining Phoenix in November 2021, Chris led financial sector engagement at Global Canopy, a UK based not for profit organisation focused on enabling a tropical deforestation free economy through data and tools development. Prior to that he held roles as both equity portfolio manager and financial analyst predominantly for in-house managed pensions schemes.

Dr Nicola Ranger is Director of the Global Finance and Economy Group of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow. She also directs the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative, the UK Integrating Finance and Biodiversity Programme and the Resilient Planet Finance Lab. Nicola brings 20 years’ expertise in risk, analytics, economics, finance and fiscal policy as a practitioner and researcher across industry, government, IFIs and academia. She works with governments, Central Banks, regulators, financial institutions and international organisations to help align policy and finance with resilience and sustainability goals. She has formerly held senior positions at the World Bank, HM Treasury/Cabinet Office, the UK Department for International Development, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a member of several high-level expert groups, including the European Commission’s HLEG on Sustainable Investment in LMICs and the UK’s Green Taxonomy Advisory Group (GTAG).  

Mette specialises in Responsible Investment, leading Aon’s Engagement Programme and coordinating Aon’s external reporting for Responsible Investment.  Mette has oversight of Aon’s frameworks for the integration of ESG risk and sits on Aon’s Responsible Investment Committee. Mette has a BSc in Economics and Politics from Bristol University, and holds the IMC, IIMR and CFA ESG Certificates.

Richard joined Foresight in 2015 and is a Managing Director focused on sustainable real estate, forestry and natural capital.

He is primarily responsible for investment strategy and has spearheaded the direct origination campaign for off-market afforestation land.

He has over 16 years’ experience in finance, has led the origination, development and launch of four innovative new strategies (attracting c.£1.5 billion of investment).

Prior to Foresight, Richard worked at Accenture as a Strategy Manager where he focused on merger and acquisition strategy across a variety of industries. Richard holds a BA in Business Management from Exeter University.

Céline Claudon is Chief Commercial Officer at the International Woodland Company (IWC), a leading natural capital specialist, and is today working with IWC’s commercial strategy and the promotion of natural capital investments.

Céline has 20 years of experience within natural capital investing, and is member of IWC’s Executive Committee, Sustainability Committee, and Business Development Committee. Prior to her current role, Céline spent 18 years identifying and evaluating natural capital investment managers as well as selecting fund, secondary, co-investment, and separate account investment opportunities on behalf of IWC’s institutional clients, representing a total portfolio of over USD 5 billion.

Céline holds an MBA from the University of Northern Iowa, USA, and a Masters in Finance from the University of Paris-Saclay, France.

IWC is majority owned by BNP Paribas Asset Management.

Josh is Responsible Investment Officer for the Oxfordshire County Council Pension Fund, part of the Brunel Pensions Partnership. He is currently leading the process to develop an expanded responsible investment policy for the Fund, including its approach to managing risks related to nature and biodiversity.

Prior to joining the Oxfordshire Pension Fund, he worked at the nature data NGO Global Canopy, where he led engagement with the finance industry to encourage take-up of deforestation data in the sector. He is a non-executive director of Global Canopy’s commercial company.

Josh has 18 years’ experience working in the responsible investment field, including leading Finance and Energy sector research teams at ESG data provider Vigeo Eiris, and helping highly impactful organisations raise finance through Ethex, a retail investment crowdfunding platform.

Laura Chapman is Interim Chief Sustainability Officer at London CIV. She joined the LCIV team from Tesco Pension Investment where she was Head of Responsible Investment. Laura has over 20 years of investment industry experience.

She began her career in real estate investment and equity raising, and has worked in investment roles across private markets including infrastructure, agriculture and private credit. Laura’s passion for ESG led her to focus on RI full time. Her responsible investment roles have covered all asset classes including public and private markets and liability-driven investments. She has focused on integrating RI into the full investment cycle from selection and analysis through monitoring and engagement. She has developed strategy and reporting capabilities, and is passionate about achieving outcomes that improve the environment in which we live and invest.

Outside of work Laura supports her husband running a regenerative farm, and is fascinated by sustainable food and farming systems. 

Steve is Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor at Aviva Investors in London. In this role he leads engagement with key multilateral institutions and organisations and is focused on unlocking and directing capital to enable a sustainable transition of the global economy. He is also strategic advisor to the investment business on policy engagement priorities with national governments and an advocate for the adoption of ‘macro stewardship’ across the investment industry value chain. Steve founded its Global Responsible Investment team as well as its Sustainable Finance Centre for Excellence. He also co-founded the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, the World Benchmarking Alliance, and the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative. Steve is member of the Board of Trustees for WWF-UK, where he started his career developing its own ethical and environmental investment policy.

Steve has worked with a range of financial, governmental, non-governmental and academic institutions on international sustainable finance issues since 1996. In 2024, he was listed among the 80 most influential people in European finance by Financial News. He has received awards from Brummell, the International Chamber of Commerce, the City of London, the United Nations Foundation, Yale and Harvard. He holds a PhD in sustainable finance. He is a Visiting Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of Surrey (his alma mater); an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of London’s Bayes Business School, University of London; and a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Steve has advised the UK Government, the European Commission, the G20, the Financial Stability Board, the OECD and the UN on the creation of sustainable capital markets. He has also spoken at 10 Downing Street, the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School, Columbia University, the London School of Economics, as well as the stock exchanges of London, Paris, New York and Singapore. 

Julius spent his executive career in the insurance and asset management industries. More recently he has held a series of non executive and advisory roles on trustee boards, for insurance companies and fintechs, including NEST, NatWest, Heineken, Prudential, Royal London, decisionsdecisions, Guiide and most recently for Cushon where he has been responsible for the design of their award winning default fund strategy. He has consulted for BlackRock, Capita and USS.

Mohsin is the Head of Pensions at Skanska and a Director sitting on a number of the UK pension schemes trustee boards and chairs various committees including the investment sub-committee and DC governance committee He was previously the Head of Pensions at Evelyn Partners and Head of Pensions at Mott MacDonald where he was responsible for pension strategy and overall management of the pension schemes including governance matters. Prior to this he has held pension and employee benefits consultancy roles with various advisory firms which include WTW and PwC, advising companies ranging from SMEs to FTSE100s helping them with their strategic plans and managing various projects in areas such as DB liability and risk management, auto-enrolment and pension scheme and benefit design.

Jonny leads the Foundation’s social and impact investing. He also sits on the Foundation’s Senior Management Team. 

Before joining the Foundation, Jonny managed and launched regulated impact funds as Investment Director at Big Issue Invest Fund Management. He is a Chartered Accountant from Deloitte LLP. Jonny holds several advisory roles, including Impact Investment Advisory Group member at the BVCA, co-chair of ACF’s Social Impact Investors Group, vice chair of the Impact Investing Panel of CFA UK, Visiting Fellow at Zinc VC, advisory board member of Big Creative Training, and Social Investment Committee member at Trust for London.

Beatriz leads TNC’s engagement and  partnerships  with Europe’s private, multilateral and bilateral finance institutions and industry-led initiatives to mainstream climate and nature in finance and investment decisions. She works with colleagues across TNC and NatureVest, TNC’s impact investment unit, to drive financial innovation and blended-finance investment opportunities that deliver climate and biodiversity impacts alongside financial returns.

Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy, she was a Managing Director  at J.P. Morgan responsible for  the bank’s business with governments and multilateral institutions in Europe and  Sub-Saharan Africa, a sovereign analyst at Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings, and an economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Beatriz holds a PhD in Economics from the University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain.

Helen leads the Institute’s nature team, whose work supports the transition of the economy to one that values and invests in nature. The team works across nature market development in the UK and internationally, and across nature-related financial risk, focusing on mobilising private sector finance into nature restoration and nature-positive outcomes. Prior to joining GFI in 2020, Helen was Global Sustainable Finance Editor with Euromoney Magazine.