Speakers
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Dawid Konotey-Ahulu CBE DL Co-founder of mallowstreet
Dawid is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Redington and mallowstreet with Robert Gardner. Dawid remains involved in mallowstreet as a Board Director.
Most recently Dawid co-founded The #10000BlackInterns programme with Jonathan Sorrell (President of Capstone Investment Advisers), Michael Barrington-Hibbert (founder of Barrington-Hibbert Associates), and Wol Kolade (Managing Partner of Livingbridge), the group which founded #100BlackInterns in August 2020.
Through the #100BlackInterns initiative, leading players in the investment management industry have come together to address the chronic underrepresentation of Black talent in that sector. Since its launch, the programme has garnered extraordinary support with 200 investment management companies offering internships in the Summer of 2021 to Black students in the United Kingdom as a way of attracting a more diverse range of talent to their industry.
Following the launch of #100BlackInterns, the #10000BlackInterns initiative has been designed to help transform the horizons and prospects of young Black people in the United Kingdom. The 10,000 Black Interns programme will offer paid work experience across a wide range of sectors, providing training and development opportunities and creating a sustainable cycle of mentorship and sponsorship for the Black community.
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Andre Ranchin Climate and Nature Lead - Hymans Robertson
André is an investment consultant at Hymans Robertson who provides advice to a range of private and public sector asset owners.
He is the Climate and Nature Lead for Hymans, spearheading the firm’s work on climate and biodiversity, as well as a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ Biodiversity Working Party and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. He is passionate about helping institutional investors address biodiversity and other nature-related issues.
André is also responsible for developing the firm’s Corporate Growth proposition and is the lead investment advisor for a range of Corporate DB clients. André is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Before joining Hymans, he completed a PhD in Theoretical Physics, splitting his time between the University of Oxford and Imperial College London.
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Chetan Ghosh Outsourced CIO - Centrica Pension Schemes
Chetan is the Chief Investment Officer for Centrica’s pension scheme arrangements within a Common Investment Fund and has held an in-house role for the last 16 years. For the last three years, he has carried out that role under an OCIO relationship within Schroders. His role covers investment strategy considerations, asset class and manager research, and all aspects of investment implementation.
Chetan has 30 years of industry experience, which started on the consultancy side, where he spent five years as a pensions actuary and 10 years on the investment side, a large part of which was at Hewitt. Immediately prior to joining Centrica, he developed the fiduciary management offering at an asset manager where he was able to gain valuable experience in improving investment decision making governance structures.
