Hamish Chamberlayne, CFA
Head of SRI, Janus Henderson Investors
Hamish Chamberlayne is the lead portfolio manager for the Global Equity SRI strategy at Janus Henderson Investors. Hamish joined Henderson in 2011 moving together with the global equity team from Gartmore. Prior to joining Gartmore in 2007, he worked as a senior auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2004 until 2007, where he covered a variety of sectors including energy, technology and communications. He began his career at Burlington Consultants in 2003 where he performed commercial due diligence on businesses identified as acquisition targets by private equity houses. Hamish graduated from New College, Oxford University with a master’s degree in chemistry. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Hamish has 13 years of financial industry experience.
Mathilde Dufour
Co-head of Sustainable Investment Research, Mirova
Mathilde Dufour is co-head of Mirova’s Sustainable Investment Research department, in charge of coordinating ESG and thematic research activities for Mirova and its clients. She holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Bordeaux. Mathilde began her career in 2007 at EthiFinance, a French CSR (Corporate Social Responsaiblity) rating agency specialised in small and mid-cap companies. In 2009, she joined Natixis Asset as an SRI analyst, focusing primarily on Resources and Consumption as investment themes. Over the last 5 years, Mathilde has actively participated in the development of a unique ESG research methodology for Natixis Asset Management and Mirova, in addition to regularly publishing research articles on topics in sustainable development.
Jessica Ground
Global Head of Stewardship, Schroders
Jessica Ground is Global Head of Stewardship at Schroders, with responsibility for the firm’s ESG integration strategy and implementation across geographies and asset classes. She has over 19 years’ experience, with 10 years running UK equities portfolios for institutional clients. Prior to this she was an analyst with coverage of financials and utilities on a pan-European and global basis. Jessica joined Schroders as a graduate trainee in 1997 and spent 10 years as a fund manager on the prime UK equity team managing £9bn of AUM. Jessica is a Board Member of the Investor Forum and an Associate of the CFA Society of the UK. She has a BA degree in History from Bristol University.
Orith Azoulay
Global Head of CIB’s Green and Sustainable Finance, Natixis
She has been working in SRI/ESG since 2002. Orith joined Natixis in 2008 to create and lead its SRI sell-side Research team, which is now part of the Green and Sustainable Finance Hub she is in the process of creating.
Natixis’ Green and Sustainable Hub consists of a dedicated, expert and resolutely cross-asset operational task force, whose main role will be to develop CIB’s Green & Sustainable franchise and its revenue generation in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Americas: it will offer a wide range of services, from financing to investment products and solutions through Green & Sustainable research and advisory. As an analyst, Orith’s sectors of specialty have historically been energy, utilities, real estate - building materials & construction, but also carbon/climate related topics. She is also Natixis’ expert on green bonds.
Prior to joining Natixis, Orith was a senior SRI analyst at Groupama Asset Management from 2003 to 2008, where she created and led their SRI practice. She also worked for the ORSE, a French think tank for Corporate Social Responsibility, where she was a research analyst. Orith started her career as an equity analyst at JP Morgan Chase in London. Orith graduated from ESCP Europe in 2000 (Diplome Grande Ecole, Diplom Kaufmann). Orith’s research team was ranked N°2 SRI/Sustainability Research team in Europe at the 2017 Extel Survey and she was ranked N°3 as an individual SRI analyst in the same survey. In 2015, she was N°1 ranked SRI sell-side analyst for her understanding of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges facing companies in the European Independent Research in Responsible Investment (IRRI) survey conducted by Extel, WeConvene and SRI-Connect.
