Yolanda Courtines
Equity Portfolio Manager, Wellington Management
Yolanda Courtines is an equity portfolio manager on Wellington Management’s Global Stewards team. Global Stewards is a concentrated ESG integration strategy that seeks to invest responsibly in high return companies with leading corporate stewardship over an extended time horizon.
Yolanda draws on research from Wellington management’s global industry analysts and our sustainability team. Yolanda is also Vice Chair of Wellington’s Investment Stewardship Committee and a Co-Chair of the EMEA Women’s Business Alliance at Wellington. Until recently, Yolanda was a Global Industry Analyst specialized in European and Latin American banks, responsible for managing research-based portfolios.
Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2006, Yolanda worked as a sell-side analyst for JPMorgan Chase in London as a Latin American and Eastern European banks analyst. Before that, she covered Latin American banks at both SG Cowen and Oppenheimer in New York. She also spent time early in her career working at the World Bank. Yolanda earned a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University and a BA from Tulane University. Yolanda is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute.
Shami Nissan
Head of Responsible Investment, Actis
Shami Nissan leads Actis’ approach to responsible investment, working closely with investment colleagues and company management to assess and manage ESG issues, helping to build world-class businesses and to deliver societal benefits. Before joining Actis in 2014 she was as a senior consultant at PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change team for ten years. Prior to this, Shami led the London business of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, providing sustainability research and analytics to institutional investors and asset managers. Shami has also worked with the United Nations Development Programme in Central America. Shami is a member of the UN PRI Supply Chain Risks Working Group, and a Steering Committee member of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association’s Sustainability Working Group. Shami represents Actis at the Business Integrity Forum run by Transparency International UK and is an Advisory Board member of Africa Matters Ltd, an Africa-focused consultancy. Shami holds an MSc Environmental Technology, with Distinction, from Imperial College London and a BSc Biological Sciences from University of Durham.
Georgina Symons-Jones
Associate Director, Sustainalytics
Georgina leads the business development team in London, covering the regions of UK & Ireland, South Africa and Middle East. In her role, Georgina works with Sustainalytics’ prospective clients to identify their ESG research needs and is focused on finding the responsible investment solution that suits them best. Since joining Sustainalytics almost three years ago, she has worked with a range of asset managers, pension funds, insurance houses and investment banks.
Prior to joining Sustainalytics, Georgina worked as an equity trader in London and Asia and more recently in micro-finance in Kenya. She has a BSc in Computing Science from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and holds a Diploma in Social Investment & Philanthropy from Cass Business School.
Rosie Zehtab
Associate Director, Milken Institute
Rosie Zehtab is an Associate Director at the Milken Institute - the global economic think tank established by American financier and philanthropist Michael Milken. Rosie is responsible for accelerating the Institute’s growth in the UK and Europe, providing engagement opportunities to sponsors and corporate associates at the Institute’s international events in Los Angeles, London, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, as well as developing new relationships with industry leaders in finance, technology, government and philanthropy.
In addition, Rosie manages the Milken Institute Associates & Young Leaders Circle in Europe.
