Derek Bunn is a Professor of Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations at London Business School. He is the author of over 250 research papers and 9 books in the areas of forecasting, decision analysis and energy economics. As Professor of Decision Sciences at London Business School, he has been the recipient of several professional and industry awards, including the Goodeve Medal from the UK Operational Research Society. His work has been extensively cited and translated.

Professor Bunn read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge University; received a PhD from London Business School; and was subsequently elected CEGB Fellow in Engineering at Oxford University. He was an elected council member of The Institute of Management Sciences (1992-1994), representing international interests in the merger executive with ORSA to create INFORMS. More recently he has served as council member of the British Institute of Energy Economists. He has been chief editor of the Journal of Forecasting and of Energy Economics as well as having been the founding editor of the Journal of Energy Markets. He has also served on the editorial boards of 11 other journals, including Management Science.

He is currently chairman of the UK Government Panel of Technical Experts for the Electricity Market and he also serves as an independent member of the industry panel that oversees the wholesale electricity trading. He has acted as a special advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change, consultant to the UK Competition Commission on Electricity Market Abuse, Expert Advisor to the National Audit Office (in their review of the electricity industry reforms), peer reviewer on modelling work for the Government and Ofgem, and Expert Witness in several litigation cases before the High Court and at international Tribunals. He has been a regular keynote speaker and chair at many international research and practitioner conferences. 

Yongyang Cai, Professor in Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on dynamic and stochastic integration of climate and the economy; integration of regional food, energy, water systems, and economy; and computational methods in economics. He has published peer-reviewed papers in leading academic journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the European Economic Association, Quantitative Economics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Operations Research. He is a co-investigator on several research projects funded by the National ScieAnce Foundation and USDA. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Climatic Change, and an editorial board member at Computational Economics. Prior to joining OSU, Cai was a Senior Research Scientist at the Becker Friedman Institute and the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy of the University of Chicago, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. In 2021, he received the Erik Kempe Award in environmental and resource economics. 

Marta Campi is a Research Fellow at the University of Zurich developing machine learning models for cochlear implant optimization and speech processing. She holds a PhD in Statistical Science and Signal Processing from University College London, where she developed novel statistical frameworks using Empirical Mode Decomposition and multi-kernel Gaussian processes for pattern recognition in complex signals—with applications spanning speaker verification for cybersecurity, diagnostic accuracy for Parkinson's disease detection from voice patterns, and statistical methods for assessing green bond environmental impact. Alongside her biomedical research, she has built expertise in climate finance and sustainable investment—publishing on green bond impact assessment and currently consulting for Australia's Future Fund on climate risk modeling, digital asset evaluation, and AI-enabled investment research for sovereign portfolio management. 

Professor Linnenluecke is an internationally recognised scholar who conducts research on the strategic and financial implications of corporate adaptation and resilience to global environmental change, with a specific focus on the impacts of climate change. At UTS, she leads the Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience, which comprises an interdisciplinary team of experts undertaking work on climate adaptation and resilience, decarbonisation, sustainable finance, climate analytics, metrics, targets and disclosure, and well as climate policy responses. The work of the Centre supports businesses in taking urgent and immediate collaborative action to decarbonise the economy and regenerate Country and planetary health.

Professor Linnenluecke has published over 100 academic articles, book chapters and conference papers and has been the recipient of numerous awards for her work. Scientific papers published by Professor Linnenluecke cover significant contributions to sustainability, resilience, environmental finance, and the impacts of climate change on companies, industries and markets. She is the author of the book The Climate Resilient Organization and has extensive experience in working with government and industry on climate adaptation strategies.

Professor Linnenluecke is a chief investigator on several ARC research projects on climate risk disclosure, the impacts of climate policy on financial markets, political connections and related impact on the cleantech transition in China and Australia, as well as sustainability-oriented fintech lending platforms. Professor Linnenluecke is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6 WGII) and was a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (ARC). She is a former Division Chair of the Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management.

Prior to joining UTS, Professor Linnenluecke was appointed to Macquarie University (2017-2022) where she founded and led the Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance (CCSEF). During this time she generated external grant funding for the CCSEF totaling over $3m, which has supported the training of 8 Postdoctoral Research Fellows and 15 PhD students. The work of the centre resulted in a body of over 150 research publications and various industry and policy reports on regulatory change for decarbonisation, measures to improve the adaptation and resilience of companies and industries to climate change, ESG investing as well as the impact of climate change on assets values. She was also a Deputy Director of Smart Green Cities at Macquarie University, a collaborative hub working on the creation of liveable urban environments. 

Andrea Macrina is Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University College London (UCL) and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in the African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management. In 2012, Dr Macrina launched the Financial Mathematics MSc Programme at UCL, of which he was programme director for twelve years until September 2024. In 2014, he co-founded the Financial Mathematics Team Challenge (FMTC), an international research student workshop held annually at UCT. Dr Macrina is a recipient of the Fields Research Fellowship and Elliott-Yui Distinguished Visitor of The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences.

Prof. Macrina held a Senior Lectureship followed by a Readership in the Department of Mathematics, University College London, an Adjunct Professorship at the Department of Actuarial Science of the University of Cape Town, a Lectureship in Financial Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London, a one-year Visiting Research Associate Professorship in the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, and a six-month Research Fellowship at ETH Zurich. Read more about him.

Matteo Malavasi is a Lecturer at the UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies. He holds a PhD in Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics from Macquarie University in cotutelle with University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests are multidisciplinary, including climate change, climate risk, cyber risk, risk analytics, risk management, actuarial studies, data science, computational method for economics and finance, and applied probability. 

Dr Richard Matear is a senior climate scientist in the Climate Intelligence program of CSIRO Environment.  Richard has 30 years of experience investigating how rising greenhouse gases impact our climate.   His research utilises models and observations to understand the mechanisms driving climate variability and change and its implications for our future climate.  Richard currently leads CSIRO's future climate and hazard activity in the Australia Climate Service. In this role, he is working to ensure our climate intelligence is used to inform Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment and helps guide Australia’s Climate Adaptation Plans.  Richard is also involved in efforts to demonstrate ocean-based negative emission technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.  

TOMOKO MATSUI (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1997. From 1988 to 2002, she was a Researcher in several NTT laboratories, focusing on speaker and speech recognition. From 1998 to 2002, she was a Senior Researcher with the Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratory, ATR, Kyoto, focusing on speech recognition. In 2001, she was an Invited Researcher with the Acoustic and Speech Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, working on identifying effective confidence measures for verifying speech recognition results. She is currently a Professor with The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, working on statistical spatial–temporal modeling for various applications, including speech and image recognition. She received the Best Paper Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan, in 1993. 

Pasin Marupanthorn currently serves as the Vice President at the Thai Quantitative Analyst and Financial Engineer Association (TQF), where he also holds the position of a quantitative researcher. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics with Physics, earning second-class honors from Thammasat University. He furthered his studies at Thammasat University, obtaining a Master’s degree in Mathematics. Pasin later pursued a second Master’s degree in Mathematical Modelling at the University of Birmingham, where he graduated with distinction.

He completed his Ph.D. in Actuarial Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University under the supervision of Chair Professor Gareth W. Peters and Dr. Eric Ofosu Hene. During his Ph.D. studies, Pasin was actively involved in the Quantitative Risk Solution Laboratory (QRSL), contributing to advanced research in quantitative finance. Additionally, he earned a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from WorldQuant University, further broadening his expertise in financial mathematics.

Pasin is certified by the CQF Institute, having successfully completed the qualifications necessary for a career in quantitative finance. Prior to his studies in the UK, he worked as a lecturer at RMUTSB for three years. Upon returning to Thailand after completing his Ph.D., he joined TQF as a quantitative researcher and continues to contribute to academia as a university lecturer.

His portfolio and additional details can be found on my personal website: https://quantfilab.github.io/pmarupanthorn/

Christina Nikitopoulos is an Associate Professor at the UTS Business School with expertise in energy finance, sustainable finance, renewable energy, and commodity markets. Christina’s projects in sustainable finance address the challenges of fossil fuel divesting, green bonds screening and the effects of climate transition risk on sovereign bond markets. This research analyses dynamic portfolio construction strategies accounting for the demographic attributes of investors, such as performance tracking, risk tolerance, and management structure, as well as, divestment schedules and re-investing, to inform of optimal carbon reduction practices in equity and bond portfolios. Her research also quantifies the significance of climate transition risk factors as determinants of sovereign bond markets. Christina also leads several projects addressing energy transition and the impact of renewable energy generation on electricity price dynamics in Australia. These studies offer insights and recommendations of practical relevance to policymakers, energy providers, and consumers and inform debates regarding system’s security and reliability and optimal courses of action to facilitate energy transition. Christina has been awarded two Australian Research Council grants and many internal and industry research grants, including the UTS Strategic Research Accelerator Program 2024. Christina publishes in leading finance journals including the Journal of Banking & Finance, Energy Economics, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Commodity Markets and Energy Policy.  She is a member of the Commodity and Energy Markets Association (CEMA), the Academic Female Finance Committee (AFFECT), the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE), Financial Research Network (FIRN), and the Australian Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). 

Eric Ofosu-hene is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University (UK). He Chairs the Sustainability - Demography Mortality and Morbidity Working Party of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK), where he leads and drives research strategy on the impact of climate change on mortality and morbidity. He has consulted for several organisations in both the public and private sectors drawing on Enterprise Risk Management and Pensions Management expertise. His research work is at the intersection of actuarial science, finance and climate change and has published in leading journals including Energy Economics, Annals of Actuarial Science and others. Eric holds a PhD in Actuarial Science from University of Kent, a double Master of Science degrees with distinction in Actuarial Management and Actuarial Science from Heriot-Watt University and is a Qualified Accountant with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK).  

Prof. Gareth W. Peters is the ‘Janet and Ian Duncan Endowed Chair Professor in Actuarial Science’ and 'Chair Professor in Statistics for Risk and Insurance' in the Department of Applied Probability and Statistics in University of California Santa Barbara.

Previously, Prof. Peters was the Chair Professor for Statistics in Risk and Insurance in the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, in Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Where he was also the Director of the Scottish Financial Risk Academy (SFRA).

Previously he held tenured positions in the Department of Statistical Sciences, University College London, UK and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Prof. Peters holds or held the following professional elected positions:

• Member of London Mathematical Society - 2016+

• Fellow and Member of Institute of Operational Risk (FIOR) - 2016+

• Fellow of Royal Statistical Society (FRSS) and Chartered Statistician (CStat -RSS) - 2018+ & (Adv DSP-RSS) - 2024+

• Member of Edinburgh Mathematical Society - 2018+

• Fellow of Institute of Mathematics and Applications (FIMA) and Chartered Mathematician (CMath- FIMA) - 2020+

• Specialist Institute of Risk Management (SIRM) - 2020+

• Member of International Statistical Institute - 2021+

• Associate Editor Annals of Actuarial Science Journal - 2021+

• Elected Member of International Statistical Institute ISI - 2021+

• Appointed Member of Green Finance Working Party - IFoA - 2021+

• Appointed Member of GI-Machine Learning in Reserving Working Party - IFoA - 2021+

• Elected Member Sigma Xi 2023+ - Scientific Research Honor Society

• Invited Specialist External Reviewer of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), National Statistics Institute of Japan, inTokyo - 2022-2023

• Member of International Society of Bayesian Analysis - 2011-2016

• Elected Member Young Academy of Science - Royal Society of Edinburgh (YAS-RSE) - 2017-2021

• American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) Member - 2021-2023

Prof. Peters was also the Nachdiploma Lecturer in Machine Learning for Risk and Insurance at ETH Zurich in the Risk Laboratory.

Prof. Peters has made in excess of 150 international invited presentations, speaker engagements including numerous key note presentation s. He has delivered numerous professional training courses to c- suite executive level industry professionals as well as numerous central banks.

Prof. Peters has published in excess of 200 peer reviewed articles on risk and insurance modelling, 2 research text books on Operational Risk and Insurance as well as being the editor and contributor to 3 edited text books on spatial statistics and Monte Carlo methods.

He currently holds positions as:

• Honorary Prof. of Statistics at University College London, 2018+

• Affiliated Prof. of Statistics in University of New South Wales Australia 2015+

• Affiliate Member of Systemic Risk Center, London School of Economics 2014+

• Affiliate Member of Oxford Mann Institute, Oxford University (OMI) 2013+

• Honorary Prof. of Statistics in University of Sydney Australia 2018+

• Honorary Prof. of Statistics in Maquarie University, Australia 2018+

• Visiting Prof. in Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan 2009 -2023+ 

He previously held positions as:

• 2018-2021 Academic Director of Scottish Financial Risk Academy. Scottish Fi nancial Risk Academy

• 2017-2019 Group leader of Sound Practice Guidance Series in Operatio nal Risk practice Institute of Operational Risk.

• 2011-2021 Co-founder of Quantitative Risk Solution Laboratory, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (previously University College London 2011 -2018).

• 2018-2020 Selected Member of Bond Review Working Party (Know ledge Exchange Sub-Group) UK Mathematical Sciences.

• 2015-2017 Affiliated Prof. Institution of Theoretical and Applied Geo physics , Peking University, Beijing, China.

• 2010-2017 Adjunct Scientist: Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics group in Commonwealt h Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

• 2012-2017 Principle Investigator in Center for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London.

• 2014-2017 Associate Lecturer of Department of Statistics , University of New South Wales (UNSW).

• 2017-2018 Invited Nachdiploma Professor of ETH Department of Mathemat ics Jointly with Swiss Finance Institute.

webpage: https://www.qrslab.com/

Dr Mona Mashhadi Rajabi is an emerging expert specialising in climate finance, climate policy responses, sustainable finance, energy transition and financial market analysis. Her recent research on the impact of net zero transition on global financial market has been widely covered by the media in Australia.

Focusing on marked-based policies, she has examined the impact of carbon tax on the economy and renewable energy transition in Europe. Using this finding, she has designed a carbon tax policy for Australia to enable the country to obtain environmental and economic benefits simultaneously. She has also worked on quantifying climate risk at the firm-level as well as the whole economy. Her research has been published widely in top-tier journals ( A*/A/Q1) and serves as a peer reviewer for leading sustainability and finance journals.

Dr Mona Mashhadi Rajabi is awarded the UTS Business Research Grant, which supports her current research on the impact of carbon pricing policy on energy transition. Focusing on decarbonisation pathway at the corporate  level, she has also received funding from Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). Also she has received funding from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)  to work on "Capacity Development in Indonesia Carbon Market". She is also apponited as a Post-doc research fellow to work on corporate's preparedness to climate reporting. This project is funded by the UTS Strategic Research Accelator (SRA) Grant.

Mona also has experience as a lead researcher in the industry sector before coming to Australia. Based on the result of her studies, she was offering consulting services to corporations enabling them to manage their climate risk and transit to a low-carbon business with the lowest possible cost. She has also worked on examining the effect of climate change and climate policies on agri-food industry and energy sector to offer consulting services to industries and assist them to reach net zero goals.

Pavel Shevchenko is a Professor in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics and Co-Director of the Centre for Emerging Risks at Macquarie Business School. Prior to joining Macquarie University in August 2016, he worked at CSIRO Australia (1999-2016) holding the position of a Senior Principal Research Scientist (2012-2016). Since 1999, Prof Shevchenko has worked in the area of risk analytics, leading research and industry commercial projects on: modelling of operational and credit risks; longevity and mortality, retirement products; option pricing; insurance; modelling commodities and foreign exchange; and the development of relevant numerical methods and software. 

He is currently associate editor of international journals (Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, RISKS and Journal of Operational Risk) and member of the Retirement Incomes Working Group in the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. Prof Shevchenko has published extensively in academic journals, consulted for major financial institutions, and is a frequent presenter at industry and academic conferences. His publication records include three research monographs, over 80 journal papers, and over 80 technical reports. 

After earning his PhD in statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, he has worked at different places around the world including the University of Hong Kong (2001), the University of Amsterdam (2002-2004), Concordia University (2004-2005), and the University of Iowa (2006-2019). At the University of Iowa, he was promoted to Full Professor in 2012 and conferred an Endowed Chair in 2014. He joined UNSW Business School under the SHARP (Strategic Hires and Retention Pathways) scheme in July 2017.

His expertise span insurance, finance, and risk management. Recently, he has been working on various emerging topics including:

• Modeling, measuring, and managing catastrophe risks [awarded ARC DP200101859]

• Systemic risk and financial networks [awarded ARC DP220100090]

• Decision making under uncertainty [awarded ARC DP250100078]

• Pricing in incomplete markets

• Climate change and insurance

He has been Principal Investigator/Lead Chief Investigator of various major external grants, including (in reverse order): 3 from ARC of Australia, 1 from NSF of the US, 2 CAE research grants from the Society of Actuaries, and 1 from NSERC of Canada. His research has resulted in an H-index of 44 according to Google Scholar. He has graduated over a dozen PhD students who are now working in academia or industry around the world.

Currently, he serves as an Editor of the journal Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and an Associate Editor of several other journals including Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry and Science China Mathematics. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Internally at UNSW Sydney, he serves as Co-Director of the Innovations in Risk, Insurance and Superannuation (IRIS) Knowledge Hub.

Stefan Trück is a Professor of Business Analytics and Director of the Transforming Energy Markets Research Centre at Macquarie University. Previously, he has held positions at Queensland University of Technology and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany where he received a PhD in Business Engineering. Stefan’s research interests focus on risk management, financial econometrics and business analytics. His is a world leading expert in the area of electricity markets and energy finance, while his research also comprises the areas of and commodity markets, credit risk, systemic risk, emissions trading, climate change economics and international financial markets. He has published in many high impact journals. He has also worked in various consulting projects in the area of energy and financial risk for organisations such as Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Australian Energy Market Commission, Saudi Electricity and Co-Generation Regulatory Authority, Maybank, CRC Limited, just to name a few. He also has received various research grants, including two Discovery Grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC) plus an ARC Future Fellowship, one of the most prestigious awards for mid-career researchers in Australia.  

Dr. Chi Truong is a Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University. His research interests focus on risk quantification and management, especially disaster risk, systemic risk, and operational risk. He has extensive experience in developing dynamic factor models for risk management, and evaluating risk mitigation strategies under climate change uncertainty.

His work has been published in leading journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, Conservation Biology, Journal of Financial Stability, Applied Energy, Energy Policy, North American Actuarial Journal, Journal of Environmental Management, Annals of Operations Research, Environmental and Resource Economics, Weather and Climate Extremes, Agricultural Water Management, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Dr. Truong serves as reviewer for numerous top-tiered journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, Energy Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, International Journal of Production Economics, ASTIN Bulletin, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Management.

He has secured research funding from major organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Society of Actuaries (USA), Toyota, and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. His research has been awarded with ABARE Prize and Research Excellence Publications Award at Macquarie University.

DAISUKE MURAKAMI received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from University of Tsukuba in 2014. From 2014 to 2017, he worked at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan as a research associate. Since 2017, he is working at the Department of Statistical Data Science, in the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan, as an assistant professor, and as an associate professor since 2023. His research interests include spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, quantitative geography, urban and environmental analysis. 

Prof Tanja Tippett is an applied mathematician who lectures on the MCom in Risk Management of Financial Markets. Tanja has extensive industry experience in asset management and insurance, specialising in asset-liability matching, risk management, credit risk management and fixed income strategies. 

Associate Professor Zsuzsanna Csereklyei is an economist focusing on energy transitions, electricity markets and on the adoption of efficient technologies.

Zsuzsanna's work includes publications in the Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Energy Policy, Utilities Policy, Applied Energy and the Journal of Energy Storage. Her current research includes several projects in the field of energy transitions, including energy profile forecasting, electricity market design, transport electrification, and projects on the future role of electricity storage.

Zsuzsanna was leading the Energy Theme of the Sustainable Technologies and Systems Enabling Impact Platform from March 2022 to February 2025. 

Zsuzsanna has taught several courses in Macroeconomics (WU Vienna, RMIT), Energy Policy, Political Economy (LMU Munich), Econometrics (RMIT) and been awarded the Award of Excellence for her thesis by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, given for the best dissertations in the country. She has also worked for over eight years in leading management positions in industry and in consulting.

Brad Archer has extensive experience working on climate change, renewable energy and energy market issues. He joined the Climate Change Authority in November 2018. Previously, he was head of the International Climate Change and Energy Innovation Division in the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, where his responsibilities included advising on clean energy innovation, Australia’s greenhouse gas inventory, and international climate change policy. 

Mr Archer has been working on climate change policies for the Australian Government since early 2011. Prior to this he worked on a range of issues in the Treasury, which he joined in 1991. Mr Archer has qualifications in economics and information management.

Adam Creighton is Senior Fellow and Chief Economist at the Institute of Public Affairs, which he joined in 2025 after 13 years as a journalist at The Australian, including as Economics Editor and finally as Washington Correspondent, where he covered the Biden presidency and the comeback of Donald Trump. He was a Journalist in Residence at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in 2019. He’s written for The Economist and The Wall Street Journal from London and Washington DC, and authored book chapters on superannuation for Oxford University Press. He started his career at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. He holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales, and Master of Philosophy in Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.

Dr.Witsanu Attavanich is an associate professor of Economics Department at the Faculty of Economics, Kasetsart University. He received his B.Sc. in Economics at Kasetsart University with the first-class honors and awarded gold medal. He received his MA in Economics at Thammasat University and Ph.D. in the field of environmental and resource economics at Texas A&M University (USA) in 2011. He pursued his postdoctoral training at Rutgers University (USA) and served as a visiting research fellow of Summer Research Institute, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford (UK). His recent research efforts have largely involved policy analysis (mainly in climate change, agriculture, land use, transportation, development, strategic planning, energy and environment). He teaches courses in microeconomic theory, econometrics for public program and policy evaluation, energy economics, managerial economics, and environmental economics. He received an outstanding award for research & innovation in the field of social science and humanities from Kasetsart University in 2014 & 2017; the 2017 rising star academic award from the Alumni Association of Economics & Business Administration, Kasetsart University; and the 2019 Puey Ungphakorn Award for the ฺBest Young Thai Economist who has outstanding academic performance. His recent contributed report won the 2016 Abraham Lincoln Honor Award for Increasing Global Food Security from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He serves as associate deputy editor of Climatic Change and associate editors of Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences and Applied Economics Journal . 

Kylie-Anne Richards is an academic at the University of Technology Sydney with research and teaching interests in sustainable finance, green finance, statistics, econometrics, and high-frequency finance. Kylie-Anne develops and lectures the Sustainable Finance subjects offered in the Master of Finance, MBA, Executive MBA, Master of Financial Planning, and Microcredential suites.

Dr. Richards is an accomplished academic and an internationally recognized scholar. Her work appears in top-tier academic journals, including 'Energy Economics,' 'Annals of Actuarial Science,' 'Global Finance Journal ', 'International Journal of Financial Engineering,' 'Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes.', etc. She has presented her research at conferences and workshops globally. Dr. Richards has also received numerous research grants in recognition of her expertise.

Dr. Richards has been featured in various media outlets for her expertise in sustainable finance. She has been interviewed for articles and podcasts on topics such as climate change transition risk, the use of AI in fixed-income analysis, diversity and inclusion, etc. Dr. Richards has been featured in media outlets such as KangaNews, InvestorDaily, UTS News Business and Law, Bloomberg Green, FS Sustainability, and The Conversation. She also makes regular appearances on AusBiz, a live and on-demand platform, discussing topics such as fixed-income markets, economics, and sustainability.

Dr. Richards holds a full-time position as Director at the Future Fund. Previously, she served as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Board Member of Fortlake Asset Management since its inception. Dr. Richards has extensive domestic and overseas industry experience, having worked at Macquarie Group in Hong Kong as Head of Financial Engineering for the Asia Pacific. Subsequently, she was Head of Indexation and Quantitative Trading Research at CLSA in Sydney. She was also the Co-founder and Portfolio Manager at QTR Capital, a proprietary trading business active in developed markets globally.

Dr. Richards holds a PhD from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She also holds a Master of Finance (Financial Engineering) from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from the University of Melbourne. During her PhD studies, Dr. Richards was the recipient of the QRSLab Boronia Managed Funds PhD Scholarship in 2011 in recognition of her academic achievements.

Kate is the Senior Manager, Climate Resilience at the Investor Group on Climate Change. She is responsible for uplifting investor understanding and action on physical risk, advocating for effective adaptation policy, and supporting opportunities for private investment in resilience.

Kate has also worked within IGCC’s Corporate Engagement team, where she focused on the political, economic, and technical challenges of decarbonising the Australian gas sector. She also supported international projects, such as the Climate Action 100+ Sector Strategies and Net-Zero Company Benchmark.

Previously, Kate worked in the insurance sector as a Senior Climate Analyst for WTW. She led the development of their Australia and New Zealand climate change strategy and built their first physical climate risk models, covering bushfire, flood, and cyclone. She was a member of the Insurance Council of Australia’s Climate Change Action Committee and contributed to the Climate Measurement Standards Initiative.

Kate has a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) from the University of Sydney, a First Class Honours in Climate Science from the University of New South Wales and has recently submitted her PhD at the University of Melbourne.

Rade Musulin is a Principal at Finity Consulting in Sydney, Australia, where he leads the Climate Risk practice. Previously he served as the Chief Executive Officer of FBAlliance Insurance, Chief Operating Officer of Aon Benfield Analytics Asia Pacific, and Vice President Operations, Public Affairs, and Reinsurance for the Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies.

Rade serves as Vice-Chair of the International Actuarial Association’s Resource and Environmental Working Group and was Vice President – Casualty for the American Academy of Actuaries from 2016 – 2018. He has a long history of volunteer service, including roles with the Actuaries Institute of Australia, American Academy of Actuaries, Casualty Actuarial Society, and International Actuarial Association. He is a past Chair of the Board of the Florida Insurance Council and of the Advisory Council of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund.

His main areas of interest include how changing population demographics affect catastrophe exposure, climate change adaptation, applications of catastrophe models for disaster planning in developing countries, building code development, and community resilience. Rade has maintained close ties with academic institutions, including being a lecturer for undergraduate classes in actuarial science, risk management, and political science.

Before his current position, Dr Graham Sinden was Director at Ernest and Young, delivering engagement for public and private sector clients on climate risk, renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable finance.

Previously, he was also the Executive Director of Climate Strategies, where he held overall responsibility for management and development of the company. Prior to heading Climate Strategies, Graham was a Senior Strategy Manager at the Carbon Trust, where he led strategy and international engagement on global carbon assessment, emissions embodied in trade and product carbon footprinting, and advised on renewable energy and carbon abatement policy.

Graham was the UK expert to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) on greenhouse gas assessment, and a member of the London 2012 Olympic Carbon Advisory Group.

Previously, Graham authored PAS 2050 (the product carbon footprinting standard) and was a Steering Group member of the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Supply Chain Initiative. He has been a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and has investigated integration and system security aspects of large-scale renewable electricity generating capacity. He has has advised the UK Government on energy policy.

Graham holds a D.Phil. and M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a B.Sc. from Sydney University.