Sustainable Finance Awards | Finance Events in Jersey, CI

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Our Sustainable Finance Awards spotlight and reward organisations in our financial services sector that are making a valuable contribution to supporting the mobilisation of capital towards sustainable outcomes and impact.

Now in its fourth year, the event builds on its strong foundations of celebrating successes while engaging and inspiring our industry.

This year’s awards will recognise individuals and teams in our Member firms for work carried out from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. Award winners will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday 30 April in Jersey.

The awards ceremony will be a theatre style event and will begin with a networking drinks reception, followed by the awards ceremony with keynotes and storytelling and a post-ceremony drinks reception.

Nominated Member firms and individuals will be given priority seating allocations and there is no charge for attendance. Dress code is business casual.

More details will be confirmed shortly.

If you have any queries, please contact a member of the events team.

Speakers

Dame Susan Rice Chair, GEFI (Global Ethical Finance Initiative)

With a career spanning medical research, leadership roles in higher education and then banking, Dame Susan chairs GEFI (Global Ethical Finance Initiative) which sits at the hub of the ethical finance movement internationally. She also chairs Forth Green Freeport, attracting investment for industrial regeneration in Scotland, delivering net zero and fair work. The first woman to head a European clearing bank, she was inter alia senior independent director of both SSE and J Sainsbury's, chair of Scottish Water, director of Bank of England and lay member of Court at Edinburgh University. Currently a non-executive Member of the Office for Budget Responsibility, she was founding chair of Scotland's Fiscal Commission, the country’s official, independent economic and fiscal forecaster.

Amy BlackwellFounder, Amy Blackwell

Amy is a philanthropy, impact and multi-generational wealth expert and is the founder of Amy Blackwell Advisory. She works with families to design philanthropic strategies and incorporate impact investing in their portfolios. She specialises in helping families work across generations to define the purpose of their wealth and align that to their values to build a legacy to be proud of. She advises impact aligned businesses with their strategies so that their purpose is well integrated and articulated. She worked for a number of years with Merrill Lynch Private Executive Services and has been engaged with impact and purpose strategies since the early 1990’s. Amy sits on the Advisory Board of Open Briefing and is a member of the Development Board for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is a member of the Civic Ecosystem Initiative. She is an impact advisor to Drashta Impact and 1FS.

David Craig Co-chair, Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures

David co-chairs the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), which seeks to redirect global financial flows towards nature-positive outcomes. TNFD has more than 1,800 member organisations across 150 countries, with over 750 adopters representing $6 trillion in market capitalisation and $22 trillion in AuM. David has over 30 years’ experience in financial markets data, technology, and infrastructure. He is the founder and former CEO of Refinitiv, acquired by London Stock Exchange Group in 2021 for $27 billion. He chairs the Investment Committee of Triple Private Equity Partners, is a trustee of the Natural History Museum as well as a member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI).

Kate RaworthEcological Economist and Creator, Doughnut

Kate Raworth is an ecological economist and creator of the Doughnut - an economic concept that aims to meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. Her internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, has been published in over 20 languages and has been widely influential with diverse audiences, from the UN General Assembly and Pope Francis to David Attenborough and the Extinction Rebellion. Kate is also co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.

Agenda

5.30 pm

Networking and light bites

6.30 pm

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