Harry Schmidt – CGC
Presentation Title:
Incorporating ESG into Corporate Strategy
Presentation Time: 10:00am
"Harry is a finance professional and advisor at Close Group Consulting. Leveraging his experience working over numerous engagements and within investment teams, he works closely with clients in capital markets to enhance their ESG, sustainable investing, and impact strategies. Before CGC, Harry worked as a dedicated sustainability analyst on the Global Sustainable Equity Strategy at Janus Henderson, responsible for ESG and impact research, company engagements, and sustainability management, such as the strategies article 9 designation against the EU SFDR regulation. Before Janus Henderson, Harry worked as an ESG research and strategy consultant at KKS Advisors supporting engagements across multiple asset classes, including as lead on an outsourced ESG team for a prominent European private debt investor.
Harry holds a first-class BSc degree in economics from the University of Manchester and an MSc in specialized economic analysis with a focus on international trade, finance, and development from the Barcelona School of Economics."
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ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – has become shorthand for all that is good and green in innovation and industry. But what is it really about? What does it mean in practical terms? And, most importantly, are highly rated ESG credentials an optional add-on, a nice-to-have, or fundamental to today’s successful and resilient businesses? In this presentation, I will introduce the concept of ESG from a first-principles perspective and give business leaders a high-level framework for thinking about how ESG might be used as a value enhancing addition to corporate strategy.