Leah Gilbert Morris

Director, International and ECA Relations, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CANADA

An environmental scientist by education, Leah has more than two decades of export credit and international trade finance experience, and a strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) background. She has led the Canadian delegation for export credit to the OECD and IWG and served a four-year term as a Vice-Chair of the OECD Export Credit Bureau and as Chair of the OECD Environmental and Social Practitioners' working group. She presently leads EDC’s International & ECA Relations team and she has also served in two multilateral DFIs, Canada's commercial banking sector and the Canadian Department of Finance.

Eve Hall

Associate Director, BERNE UNION SECRETARIAT

Eve is skilled in corporate finance, business development and investor relations with experience in financial services, management consulting, international media and, most recently, export credit insurance. Eve manages the Prague Club of the Berne Union, as well as specialist groups focusing on SMEs, country risk and Sub-Saharan Africa.  

Paul Heaney

Acting Secretary General, BERNE UNION SECRETARIAT

Paul has over a decade of experience working on all aspects of strategic communications, media, PR and stakeholder engagement within international finance. He manages Berne Union research, publications and outreach to external stakeholders, including through the 'Capacity Sharing Marketplace' initiative.

Adama Mariko

Adjoint Directeur Exécutif Stratégie, Partenariats et Communication, AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT& Secretary General, FINANCE IN COMMON

Prior to FiCS in 2021, Adama was AFD’s Management Board member in charge of financial planning. Adama joined AFD in 2009. He has worked in West Africa, in the Indian Ocean, and in both the Finance and Risk departments at Paris headquarter. Recently appointed Deputy Director for Strategy, Partnerships and Communication of AFD, Adama joined FICS as Secretary General. Adama graduated in Finance from Paris-Dauphine and holds a Master in Public Administration from Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

Mathilde Bord-Laurans

Head of Climate Change Department, AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT

Charlotte-Fleur Cristofari

Climate Strategy / Finance in Common Summit, AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT

Clement Yapo

Senior ESG Officer, AFRICAN TRADE INSURANCE AGENCY

Clement is an Ivorian national who have been working in environmental and social field for more than 20 years, supporting companies within Africa to mitigate negative E&S impacts. Since March 2021, he joined the headquarters of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) in Nairobi as Senior ESG Officer.

Simon Morden

Senior Underwriter, Global Political Risk, Credit & Bond, AXA XL

Simon is a Senior Underwriter in the Political and Credit Risk team at AXA XL, a division of AXA Group. He joined in 2018 and prior to which he had a 21 year banking career, 15 years of which were in Loan Syndications including a 5 year period in Abu Dhabi. Simon has worked for SCB, GIB, SMBCE and FAB during his banking career.

Maëlia Dufour

Director International Relations, Business Development, Rating, Environment and Climate, BPIFRANCE

Maëlia has worked for the French State Export Credit Agency, for many years.
She deals with a wide range of environmental, social and climate issues along with her team of experts in that field.

Elsa Pancek

Environmental, Social and Climate Analyst, BPIFRANCE

Elsa graduated from the Université Catholique de l'Ouest with a Master's degree in Ecology and Sustainable Development and is an environmental, social and climate analyst at Bpifrance Assurance Export.

Mathilde Moreau

Junior Environmental, Social and Climate Analyst, BPIFRANCE

Currently studying for a Master's degree in finance at Neoma BS, Mathilde Moreau is a junior environmental, social and climate analyst at Bpifrance Assurance Export.

Ralph Lerch

Head of Export Finance, DZ BANK

Ralph joined DZ BANK in May 2018 and heads a dedicated team of export finance spe-cialists covering all major ECAs. From 2013 to 2018 Ralph acted as Chair of EBF’s Export Credit Working Group. Heis a member of the ICC Export Finance Committee, the ICC Sustainability Working Group and the EulerHermes Expert Group.

Andrea Gardella

Senior Advisor, International and ECA Relations, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CANADA

Andrea joined EDC in 2010 and was the Principal Economist responsible for analysing global country and sector risks before becoming the Senior Advisor responsible for climate and ESG policy with International & ECA Relations. At the centre of her work is supporting EDC’s climate strategy including COP26 participation and development of a GFANZ – ECA Alliance, and review of the OECD CCSU.

Da-Jeong Kim

Advisor, Climate and ESG Policy, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CANADA

Da-Jeong joined EDC in 2018 and is an Advisor on ESG Policy (Climate), leading EDC’s carbon accounting and climate-related disclosure. Da-Jeong holds a M.Env.Sc from the University of Toronto specialized in climate change impact assessment and a B.Sc. (Ag.Env) from McGill University. Prior to EDC, she worked in environmental field research and sustainable facilities management.

Karin Wessman

Head of Sustainability, EKN

Karin has 20 years professional experience in the field of responsible business practices and is currently heading a team of 9 sustainability experts at EKN. Prior to joining EKN in 2013, Ms. Wessman worked as a sustainability consultant and prior to that spent nine years working for WWF, the World Wide fund for Nature.

Chris Mitman

Global Head of Export Finance, INVESTEC

Chris is Global Head of Export Finance at Investec Bank plc based in London where he founded the business in 2010. Previously he was Global Head of Export Finance at ANZ Bank based in Singapore. He is a member of the ICC Export Finance Committee and Co-Chair of the ICC Export Finance Sustainability Working Group which recently published a landmark White Paper on Sustainability in Export Finance

Olga Sclovscaia

Regional Head Europe & Central Asia, MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY

Olga covers climate thematically in MIGA’s operations. She has co-led the formulation of MIGA’s corporate climate strategy and operationalization of the World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan. She has led a project to understand the regulatory treatment of climate projects globally.

Dr. Helen Meekings

Deputy Director for Policy and Climate Change, UK EXPORT FINANCE

Helen has a background in export finance, climate, ESG/environmental and social risk management and has worked for UKEF for over 10 years. She currently leads on UKEF’s climate change strategy and Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) response. Helen is a chartered engineer and chartered environmentalist.

Marlena Hurley

Head of ECA and International Relations, U.S. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION

Marlena has 10 years of experience in political risk insurance and 20 years in international development. With DFC she works on developing solutions for renewable energy and other projects supporting climate resilience and mitigation. In 2019, she co-founded the initiative with The Nature Conservancy to support Blue Bonds for Marine Conservation through political risk insurance.