EcoBalance2022

Plenary speakers

Mr. Hiroshi Ozeki
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nissay Asset Management Corporation
CMA
(Chartered Member of the Security Analyst Association of Japan)
Mr. Hiroshi Ozeki

Biography

In 1987, Hiroshi joined Nippon Life Insurance Company after graduation from the University of Tokyo, where he garnered most of his professional career. He accumulated ample experience and professional knowledge through various key positions in leading Investment Management as a Domestic Bond Portfolio Manager and a Head of Global Credit and Alternative Investment. In 2013, he became in charge of the Finance and Investment Planning Department as a General Manager. Promoted in 2014 to Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Board Directors & Executive Officer. In 2018, under his new leadership role at Nippon Life’s overseas operations (based in New York), he served as the Regional CEO (responsible for the Americas and Europe) and Managing Director & Executive Officer.

Hiroshi speaks and acts widely in promoting efforts to enhance the group’s initiatives on ESG investments and Green financing, including initiating the first Green Bond issued by the City of Paris and the first underwriting of women bonds by Banco del Estado de Chile (BancoEstado). He has been invited to speak at both international and domestic conferences on climate change, ESG and SDGs, including CFA, ICMA, the RI Asia, the TCFD Summit, and he gave the opening speech at the PRI Digital Conference 2021.

Hiroshi Ozeki has 34 years of business experience engaging in Corporate Planning and Asset Management, including Loan Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Corporate Strategy, Capital Procurement, IR, ALM, and Asset allocation of Life Insurance General Accounts.

Ms. Justine Bolton
Carbon management and climate resilience specialist
Environmental Sustainability Manager at FirstRand Limited (South Africa)
Ms. Justine Bolton

Biography

A dedicated and driven environmental sustainability and carbon accounting practitioner, Justine is currently involved with measuring carbon footprints including financed emissions; setting science-based decarbonisation targets and understanding a financial institutions portfolio alignment to net zero; measuring physical and transitional climate change related risks in lending and investment portfolios; climate resilience in the agriculture sector; and TCFD and CDP aligned disclosures. Another particular interest is biodiversity footprinting to measure the impact and dependencies of portfolios on biodiversity.

Justine is a Board Member of PBAF (Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials) and participates in the PBAF working groups to help develop guidance for financial institutions to manage and report on biodiversity related risks and opportunities. Justine also participates in core working groups of PCAF (Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials) and helps to chair the PCAF Africa working group.

Justine studied a B.SC in Wildlife Science at UKZN followed by courses in project management (WITS), environmental law (CEM-NWU), impact measurement (GIBS) and a Master’s Degree in Carbon Management at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently studying for a PhD in carbon accounting and Paris alignment for financial institutions at the University of Edinburgh Business School while working full time at FirstRand Limited.

Mr. Nuttavut Intarode
Sustainable Development Director,
The Siam Cement PLC (SCG), Thailand
Mr. Nuttavut Intarode

Biography

Nuttavut Intarode is the director of sustainability development of Siam Cement Group (SCG). Since taking a role in sustainability development, he has been driving a net zero transition and orchestrating various sustainability actions through SCG’s ESG strategic approaches including set net zero, go green, reduce inequality, and enhance collaboration with trust through transparency in all operations both domestically and regionally.

Nuttavut Intarode has joined with SCG since graduate in bachelor degree - Industrial Chemistry, from the faculty of science, Chiang Mai University in 1995 as a quality assurance engineer in cement business. In 2008, he received SCG’s scholarship to pursue his Master Degree in Engineering and Technology Management from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA in 2008. During his career in SCG he held several managerial roles in quality assurance manager in refractory, cement, and construction businesses. Currently he is also a company representative being a workgroup member of Thought Leadership, Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and an associate member of Thailand Business Council Sustainable Development (TBCSD).