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Elisabeth Gambert
Director for CSR & International Affairs, AFEP Association Francaise des Entreprises Privees
Elisabeth Gambert is at AFEP (Association Française des Entreprises Privées, representing the top 120 multinational companies operating in France) where she leads working groups bringing together Chief Sustainability Officers of the largest French and international companies to engage on legislative and regulatory proposals, including the EU Corporate Due Diligence Directive, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, European Sustainability Reporting Standards, ESG Ratings. She is also Co-Chair of the Corporate Reporting Working Group of European Issuers, a pan-European organisation representing publicly quoted companies across Europe. She holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Vienna, a Master's in European Law from the University of Rennes I and a joint European Master's of Governance and Administration from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Viet-Linh Nguyen
Head of Strategy and Sustainable Finance Unit, Secretary to the Executive Committee, AMF
Viet-Linh Nguyen began his career 2008 as an Overseer on European payment instruments and head of the Single Europe Payment Area section at the Banque de France, specializing in international financial regulation. He was then appointed Head of the credit and operational and post-trade division in the International Affairs department of the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution. Seconded to the Treasury in 2014, Viet-Linh Nguyen was Financial Counsellor and Deputy Head of the regional economic service at the French Embassy in Japan where he launched and co-organized the first two editions of the French-Japanese Roundtables on sustainable finance in 2017 and 2018 and participated in the Agence France Trésor's roadshows on the launch of green OATs. He joined the AMF in 2018. Viet-Linh holds a Master's degree from Sciences Po Paris in Bilingual English Public Affairs and is an alumnus of HEC and Trinity College Dublin. He was a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and is currently a lecturer at the École des Hautes Études Internationales et Politiques on financial regulation and international negotiations.
France Vassaux
Partner, Private Funds, Simmons & Simmons
France Vassaux leads Simmons & Simmons Paris ESG and Sustainable Finance practice. She advises private equity and venture capital companies and funds on the full range of sustainable finance regulations at the EU and at French national level, with a particular focus on regulatory affairs. Having actively participated in the work on the French and European regulatory framework for sustainable finance, she has acquired a recognised expertise in this field and advises management companies and funds, in particular on the compliance of their procedures and financial products with the requirements of the sustainable finance regulation. France regularly speaks at seminars and conferences on these areas of expertise. France started her career in asset management at Paribas, was a Senior Auditor at AMF Asset Management and also led legal departments at IXIS Asset Management, Carmignac and IXIS Private Capital Management. She holds a Master’s degree in European and International Law from Université Panthéon-Assas as well as an MBA from HEC Business School.
Somesha Ferdinand
Principal, FLG
Somesha Ferdinand is a financial services lawyer advising clients on wide-ranging financial services and banking regulations, and has extensive experience in the New York and European finance markets. Her clients include corporate and investment banks and asset managers. She guides them on regulatory compliance and corporate, social and environment responsibility. She also advises on AML (anti-money laundering) and CTF (counter-terrorism financing) and international sanctions requirements. The span of her expertise extends from pre-litigation and pre-enforcement internal investigations to remedial tools to implementation of holistic compliance and risk frameworks. She began her career as a Trial Attorney for the United States Department of Justice, she has led legal and compliance departments at AXA, BNY Mellon, and Wells Fargo. She was a law lecturer at the Institut de Droit Comparé. She is a Member of the New York Bar and qualified for the Paris Bar. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law and graduated from Dartmouth College, with honours.
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