Net Zero Investor’s Annual Conference 2025

Lindsey Stewart is director of institutional insights for Morningstar. Lindsey leads outreach and content strategy for Morningstar’s institutional investor audience. Formerly Morningstar’s director of investment stewardship research, Lindsey is best known for writing and speaking about corporate governance, sustainability, and regulation. Today, he also brings Morningstar’s insights on asset allocation, active vs passive investing, private markets and other key topics to a wider institutional audience. Lindsey has enjoyed a varied 25-year career spanning investor engagement, financial analysis and reporting, financial regulation, and marketing and communications at Makinson Cowell, KPMG, and the Financial Reporting Council. Lindsey is a Chartered Management Accountant, and he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

James is a Workplace Investment Director looking after FutureWise Target Dated Fund Strategy and a number of key strategic IO clients since February 2023. He comes with 13 years DC Investment industry experience from Aon, where he was Head of DC Investments for 8 Years and is qualified as a Regulated Financial Planner, with a specialism in DC investment strategy design, sustainability, less liquid asset integration and provider market knowledge. His responsibilities included working on the Bank of England’s Productive Working Finance Group, governing the Aon DC Product (including the Aon Master Trust), reviewing the investment and bundled proposition of pension providers and advising Employers and Trusts on their workplace investment strategy.

Katharina is Head of Sustainability Strategy at Nest. Her role includes leading the pension scheme’s approach to climate change and environmental topics within the £49 billion portfolio (as of January 2025). She joined Nest in 2019 and previously worked at Railpen and Standard Life Investments (now abrdn). She holds an MA in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment from UCL. Katharina is also a CFA charterholder.

Jake is a member of L&G’s Private Credit Team and Co-Fund manager on L&G’s Nature & Social Outcome Strategy. Jake is responsible for sourcing and managing investments across a range of asset classes, principally in structured finance or other non-standard areas. Jake specialises in emerging markets and is an advocate for this growing private credit sector though various advisory groups.  

Prior to joining L&G, Jakes worked at Lloyds Bank where he held various roles across its private markets and restructuring business. He graduated from Rotterdam School of Management and holds a MSc in Finance and Investments

Alistair Jones (Senior Managing Director and Head of ESG) has over 25 years experience in asset management and investment consulting advising institutional investors on investment strategies including ILS, ESG, credit and fixed income. Alistair has worked with DB pension funds, DC pension funds, charities, corporates and other institutional investors over his career at WTW, Aon, Schroders and SEI. Alistair is a member of CFA UK’s Ethics and Professionalism Steering Committee (and before it Pension Expert Panel).

Craig Cameron, Senior Vice President, is a portfolio manager and analyst for Templeton Global Investments, and head of the group’s Sustainability Team.

Mr. Cameron has been lead portfolio manager of the Templeton Global Climate Change Fund since 2021 and a portfolio manager on the group’s European products since 2024. He also has global research coverage of renewable energy and works across a variety of sectors on thematic research ideas.

Prior to joining Franklin Templeton in 2012, Mr. Cameron was an analyst at Standard Life. He entered the financial services industry in 2009, and has held research coverage for a number of sectors including insurance, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals and utilities.

Mr. Cameron holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Edinburgh University, United Kingdom and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Rahil Ram is Head of Investment Strategy at Cushon. He joined from Fulcrum Asset Management, where he was Head of Climate Investing and served as a director in the absolute return investment team, responsible for idea generation, portfolio construction, portfolio management and risk management. Prior to that, he was a multi-asset strategist at Legal & General Asset Management, where he worked across strategic asset allocation, tactical asset allocation, portfolio design and quantitative analysis. Rahil is a qualified actuary and holds a master’s degree with distinction and a first-class undergraduate degree from Bayes Business School.

Martin joined the company in 2014, bringing over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and lending. Before this, he worked at Allied Irish Bank and later at Anglo Irish Bank, where he was responsible for the origination, underwriting and management of commercial real estate debt working in both the Dublin and Chicago offices. In 2012, Martin joined Capita Asset Services as Head of Client Relations, based in London, where he was responsible for the management of a portfolio of over £40billion of syndicated and securitised loans. He holds a Bachelor of Business and Law from University College Dublin.

Sanjay is the impact and local investing specialist at Hymans Robertson. Over recent years, he has been involved in several key areas of thought leadership, including thinking on impact investing and as an author of the paper “The Emperor’s new climate scenarios”. Prior to his time at Hymans, Sanjay worked a number of impact-focused initiatives, including SoGive, which supported major donors and foundations to improve the impact of their philanthropy. Sanjay started his career as an insurance actuary, and has also worked as a credit analyst at S&P and a strategy consultant.

Steven serves on the Investment Committee and is responsible for developing and supporting the firm’s business development initiatives. With over 25 years of global timberland experience, Steven has broad experience developing timberland investment strategies, acquiring timberland, and managing portfolios. Prior to joining RMS, Steven was Managing Director, Global Strategies at Campbell Global, playing a key role in the successful launch of their first global timberland fund.  Prior to that he held positions at RMS, Rayonier, James W. Sewall Company, and Jaakko Pöyry Consulting.  Steven received his M.S. in forest resources from the University of Georgia and a B.S. in forest resources and conservation from the University of Florida.

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.

Joe is an investment director at Better Society Capital, covering investments in impact venture and renewables, and managing impact for the Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust. Prior to joining the team, he worked for donor funded impact investment initiatives in Africa and Asia, including the Private Infrastructure Development Group and the DFID Impact Programme.

Joe also co-founded the PeoplesPower, a community interest company to help lower energy bills and tackle fuel poverty in the UK.

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.

Director with over 13 years’ experience in renewable energy

• Joined Quinbrook in 2024 from Statkraft, where she was Vice President Corporate Transactions leading negotiations across solar, onshore and offshore wind, green hydrogen and green ammonia focussed on the UK, Ireland and Norway.

• Previously, she was Senior Investment Manager at Ingenious for their renewable energy funds investing in wind, solar, anaerobic digestion and bio-CNG as well as Senior Development Manager at Lightsource, developing UK solar PV.

• She holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University and a Masters in Finance from London Business School.

Beverley is Founder and Managing Partner of Clean Growth Investment Management, a venture capital fund manager that  invests in the UK’s most promising early stage cleantech companies that have the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. She is also CEO of Carbon Limiting Technologies (2006), a cleantech consultancy for corporates, financiers, government officials and SMEs. Prior she was she was a founder and Vice President, Shell Technology Ventures. 

Beverley is a thought leader in early stage cleantech investments and commercialisation with over 40 years’ experience in the international energy sector. She specialises in accelerating innovation to market and scaling companies by providing strategic insights, developing industry partnerships and identifying novel ways to overcome barriers to entry. Her ambition is to create a better, sustainable world and she firmly believes that this will be achieved through climatetech innovation playing a transformative role in the global economy. In 2023, Beverley was awarded an OBE by His Majesty King Charles III for services to Net Zero innovation. She is a NED and Chair of Investment Committee at Great British Energy and previously an independent member of the UK’s cross-government Net Zero Innovation Board chaired by the chief science advisor, Dame Angela McLean. Beverley is a Fellow of the Energy Institute. She holds a BSc in Mining Geology from University College Cardiff.

Matteo is a Senior Responsible Investment Specialist at APG Asset Management, specializing in Private Equity and Venture investments. With 15 years interest in Responsible Investment, Matteo has worked extensively on financial and climate risk in both asset management and banking supervision. In its academic career he has published several papers on socially responsible investment and financial inclusion. He holds a PhD in Finance from Maastricht University.

Joanna is a Partner in Aon’s Investment Practice and the Chief Investment Officer for Aon’s DC
Solutions. She has over 20 years’ experience in the pension and investment industry and is a Fellow of
the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Joanna is responsible for the development and implementation of delegated investment solutions for
DC pension schemes, working closely with Aon’s UK delegated team. Joanna also leads the
development of Aon’s house views around DC investments, in particular default and lifestyle strategies,
and sits on the UK DC Investment Committee.

Shiv is a member of the senior leadership team at the West Midlands Pension Fund and co-leads the Fund’s investment division. He oversees the development and implementation of the Fund’s approach to responsible investment including climate change and the integration of ESG risk factors across the Fund’s investment strategy. Prior to joining the West Midlands Pension Fund Shiv spent his career in investment consulting at Isio, and formerly KPMG, where he advised a range of institutional clients on all aspects of their investment strategy. As part of his role in investment consulting Shiv was heavily involved in asset class and manager research through his role as Head of Credit Research. Shiv has a degree in Economics and is a CFA charterholder.

Claire Meier is the Investor Director at ASCOR.

Claire is a seasoned sovereign analyst and a leading voice in responsible investment across both emerging and developed markets. With over two decades of experience, Claire has held roles at institutions such as the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA), and was a sovereign debt research analyst at Northern Trust Asset Management and Allstate Investment Group.

Most recently, Claire served as Interim Head of Investment Managers at PRI, where she led a global group of over 100 investment managers in identifying and addressing sustainable market barriers. At EMIA, she was instrumental in building strategic partnerships and expanding membership, including securing collaborations with the World Bank and JP Morgan.

Claire is a skilled communicator, media-trained public speaker, and published author of numerous research publications on fiscal transparency and governance in emerging markets. She holds a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, a Bachelor’s degree from Smith College and is a Fulbright Scholar.