A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
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Eric Christian Pedersen
Head of Responsible Investments at Nordea Asset Management
Eric is 55 years old and holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen. Having completed his Master’s thesis on Economic Reform in India, he began his professional career at the United Nations, being employed as a junior economist by UNDP in Mali, West Africa.
After joining Unibank of Denmark (the Danish predecessor bank of Nordea) in 1996, he has worked in various roles in the Asset Management area, including Head of Product Development, Head of Retail Products, Head of Strategy for Nordea’s Asset Management and Life business, and Branch Manager of Nordea Bank S.A., Singapore Branch. His latest previous position was as Deputy CEO of Nordea Funds, where he oversaw the move to focus Nordea’s fund business on ESG, and was instrumental in introducing sustainability as a criterion in Nordea Bank’s customer due diligence and investment advice processes.
Eric has served on the Danish Corporate Governance Committee and the Finance Denmark Forum for Sustainable Finance. In 2021, Eric joined the Advisory Board of Boston University’s Impact Measurement and Allocation Program.