Speaker

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  Kirsty Newman

  Market Chair, Deloitte

Kirsty is the Market Chair of Deloitte in the UK. She leads Deloitte Private in Deloitte's North South Europe business and is co-Chair of Deloitte's Global Family Office Advisory Board.

She represents Deloitte on the Professional and Business Services Council, which works with the UK’s Department for Business & Trade to drive the growth agenda.

Speaker

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  Mark Carney

  Keynote speaker

Mark Carney is a former Governor of the Bank of England and UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. He spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs, playing a key role in the response to the Russian financial crisis before becoming Governor of the Bank of Canada, where he shielded the country from the worst of the global financial crash. Mark was appointed Governor of the Bank of England, where he restructured and expanded the senior hierarchy and implemented new policies, including the Term Funding Scheme and 'forward guidance.'

Mark is the first Central Bank Governor to champion environmental concerns, overseeing the development of stress tests for measuring the vulnerability of banks to climate risk. He believes turning climate risks into opportunities requires $50 trillion investment over ten years, innovative technologies, a transparent and legitimate offsets market, structural change, and new governance.

Chair

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  Anne-Marie Malley

  Vice Chair and UK Sustainability & Climate Leader, Deloitte

Anne-Marie Malley is the Vice Chair and UK Sustainability & Climate Leader, bringing together the best of Deloitte’s multi-disciplinary capabilities to scale our impact in the market. She has more than 25 years’ experience within Deloitte; architecting and leading end to end transformations for our clients. This has included consulting with executives from some our largest clients across the globe, fundamentally transforming the way their business works through designing and implementing transformation. Anne-Marie is passionate about helping our clients and society focus on making a difference in Sustainability and Climate.

Panellists

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  Ian Stewart

  Partner and Chief Economist, Deloitte

Ian Stewart is a Partner and Chief Economist with Deloitte UK based in London where he researches the business implications of economic change. Before joining Deloitte Ian spent 12 years as Chief Economist for Europe at the US investment bank, Merrill Lynch in London. He previously worked as Special Adviser in government and as Head of Economics in the Conservative Party’s Research Department.

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  Mark Wild

  Chief Executive, SGN

Mark Wild has more than 35 years of experience leading complex and critical infrastructure. An Engineer with Hons Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Masters in Business Administration. Mark started his career in the electricity sector, but the majority of his experience has been in transportation. He has had a long career in operating and building major transportation infrastructure.

Mark is the former Managing Director of Westinghouse Signals and was the CEO of Public Transport Victoria. Mark is the former Managing Director of London Underground and the former CEO of Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure programme. Mark took up the role of CEO for SGN, one of the UK’s largest gas distribution networks in August last year.

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  Merryn-Sommerset Webb

  Senior Columnist, Bloomberg

Merryn Somerset Webb is a Senior Columnist at Bloomberg, writing about wealth, investing and personal finance, and hosts the award winning 'Merryn Talks Money' podcast. Merryn was the founding editor of Moneyweek magazine, she remained as Editor in Chief until late 2022. Merryn was also a Contributing Editor and weekly columnist for the Financial Times until late 2022. She is an experienced non-executive director and currently sits on the board of two listed investment trusts. She is the author of two books, the most recent is 'Share Power- how ordinary people can change the way capitalism works, and make money too'.

Find out more information on our eight breakouts themes and view the pre-read documents here.

We will close the meeting by reviewing the actions that leaders from business, the public sector and academia have identified that they can take together to turbocharge UK economic growth in pursuit of net zero.

Speaker

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  Kirsty Newman

  Market Chair, Deloitte