Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change9 Mar 2022

A Greener Future Made Possible by Finance - Ep79: Rhian-Mari Thomas

Rhian-Mari Thomas is Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute. The Institute sits at the nexus of the public and private sectors, the Green Finance Institute convenes and leads sectoral coalitions of global experts, that identify and unlock barriers to investment towards impactful, real-economy outcomes. The Green Finance Institute is backed by the UK Government and City of London Corporation.

Rhian spent 20 years in investment banking and corporate finance and was awarded an OBE for services to green banking. She is an Emeritus Member of TCFD and co-chaired the launch of the TNFD to which she is a senior advisor.

Rhian sits on numerous advisory groups across UK Government including the Net Zero Expert Group, Centre for Greening Finance and Investment, Global Resources Initiative, Department for Transport Expert Panel, Her Majesty’s Treasury Green Technical Advisory Group and the UK Voluntary Carbon Markets Forum. Rhian was also a commissioner on the Zero Carbon Commission and a member of the Climate Change Committee’s Net Zero Finance Advisory Group. Rhian sits on the advisory board for UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources and co-chairs the advisory board for Snowball Impact Management.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Rhian holds a PhD in Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

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11 Nov 20201h 7min

Innovation and Power - Ep17: Prof. Ernest J. Moniz

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6 Nov 20201h 18min

Sustainable Energy for All - Ep16: Dr Kandeh K. Yumkella

Further reading:Dr Yumkella’s Wikipedia entryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandeh\_Yumkella Sustainable Energy for Allhttps://www.seforall.org/ UNIDOhttps://www.unido.org/ Rio+20https://sustainable...

4 Nov 20201h 28min

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Further reading:Auke’s profile on the Eindhoven University of Technology’s websitehttps://research.tue.nl/en/persons/auke-e-hoekstraAuke’s bio & personal motivation – NEON research projecthttps://ne...

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