Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 08 June
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
The Edge, Fed Square
The Atrium Flinders Street Federation Square Melbourne Victoria 3000
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Climate change discourse isn’t all photos of worried polar bears and winsome children. Even amongst those who accept that we’re facing a time of monumental change, one question niggles about the change ahead: what’s it all going to cost? Some say less than the price of a coffee a week, some that reducing emissions will mean considerable costs and a loss of economic competitiveness. What are we to believe? And maybe cost is the wrong way of thinking about how the world of finance should be facing the upheaval ahead. Does systemic change represent as great an opportunity as it does a challenge? How do you make sure good climate strategy equals good business?
Keynote by David Blood
5:30 – 6:15pm- Keynote Lecture
6:15 – 6:30pm- Interval
6:30 – 7:30pm- Panel Discussion
Featuring
David Blood
Keynote Speaker: David Blood is Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management, a fund management business dedicated to long-term investment and integrated sustainability research.
Previously, David served as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
James Cameron
Panel Member: James Cameron is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts in developing market based policy responses to climate change.
He is Vice Chairman of Climate Change Capital, a leading investment-banking group specialising in the commercial opportunities created by a low carbon economy.
John Daley
John Daley is the inaugural chief executive of Grattan Institute, which provides independent, rigorous and practical solutions to Australia’s most pressing public policy issues. The current programs of Grattan Institute focus on productivity growth, cities, school education, tertiary education, energy and health.
John’s work at Grattan Institute has focused on economic and budgetary reform. He is particularly interested in government prioritisation. His other interests include analysing the situations in which government intervention is justified, and the limits to government.
He has 25 years’ experience spanning policy, academic, government and corporate roles. He has worked for the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, McKinsey and Co, and ANZ where he was managing director of the online stockbroker, E*TRADE Australia.
Ian Gibson
Panel member: Ian is Managing Director and co-founder of specialist investment manager Attunga Capital Pty Ltd.
Attunga Capital focuses on short term and long term investment opportunities in various niche asset classes and has assets under management of $200m.
Prior to Attunga Capital, Ian consulted to and helped establish a number of financial organisations. Previously Ian was an equities analysts and fund manager at Fidelity Investments Management (H.K.) Ltd, based in Hong Kong. Prior to Fidelity, Ian was an equities analyst at Potter Warburg/SBC Warburg.
He has also worked at the State Bank of New South Wales and BZW Australia. Ian holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business (Finance) from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.