Board Members crisscross Europe to highlight IFFIm’s impact and future potential
Board Members crisscross Europe to highlight IFFIm’s impact and future potential
1 August 2023
L-R: Charles Bleehen, Liesbet Steer, Ken Lay, Guillaume Grosso, Philippe Douste-Blazy, Rosalind McKenna and Patrick Bertrand.
Members of the IFFIm Board of Directors were active in Europe and the UK for the first half of 2023 advocating for IFFIm at high-level gatherings focused on impact finance and global health.
Members of the IFFIm Board of Directors were active in Europe and the UK for the first half of 2023 advocating for IFFIm at high-level gatherings focused on impact finance and global health.
As the world’s first social bond, IFFIm is a leading pure play investment, with proven results when it comes to saving lives. The IFFIm Board actively shares its knowledge of the ESG sector with other financial and humanitarian sectors.
Frankfurt
Ingrid van Wees appeared at the DZ Bank Capital Markets Conference in Frankfurt, Germany on 9 May. Ingrid represented IFFIm on a panel titled “Financing the new economy: global growth and developing capital markets.” The event hosted more than 70 speakers to discuss the opportunities and challenges for the global economy as financial markets adapt to a new era of market conditions, shift, and align investments to a more digitally driven and sustainable economy. Attendees included senior issuers, investors, and policy makers, including central bankers, large asset owners (sovereign wealth and pension funds), ministry of finance officials, asset managers, and the cooperative financial sector.
Madrid
Doris Herrera-Pol participated in a 6 June panel about social bonds at the ICO Sustainable Bond Forum in Madrid. The ICO Sustainable Bond Forum brings together best-in-class, national and international market players, such as issuers, investors, agencies, and banks to discuss the latest opportunities and challenges in the Sustainable Bond markets. Doris represented IFFIm on a panel titled “Social Bonds: Broadening the human development focus beyond climate” on and networked with other bond issuers, banks, and potential investors.
London
Ken Lay and Doris Herrera-Pol participated in a conference hosted by Euromoney in London on 20 and 21 June. The Global Borrowers and Bond Investors Forum is a leading event for fixed-income market participants. The conference brings together debt issuers, investors, investment bankers, rating agencies, government agencies and financial services providers from over 50 countries to discuss the key issues affecting the international bond markets. The event provides networking and deal-making opportunities, as well as a platform for high-level discussion on the key trends in debt capital markets.
Ken and Doris participated in a 20 June interview on the evolution of the capital markets to address the greater global good. They highlighted IFFIm’s earlier years frontloading immunisation to meet the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals through the current discussion on pandemic response. Along with board member Bertrand de Mazières, Doris and Ken were able to represent IFFIm at meetings and networking events with other global finance leaders.
Paris
IFFIm Board Chair Ken Lay traveled to Paris where he attended a side event hosted by Gavi as part of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact hosted by French President Macron with the goal of rethinking the global financial architecture and mobilise financial support for developing and low-income countries facing multiple challenges of excessive debt, climate change, and poverty. At the meeting, “Innovative Financing for Climate Change and Global Health: The Path Ahead,” the group discussed how we can harness tools modeled on IFFIm vaccine bonds to respond to these urgent challenges.
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