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.

Rupert Cadbury
Vice President in Fixed Income Portfolio Strategy at State Street Global Advisors
Rupert Cadbury is a Vice President in Fixed Income Portfolio Strategy group at State Street Global Advisors. The team is responsible for positioning and development of the firm's Fixed Income, Cash and Currency Management capabilities. Rupert works closely with institutional clients, consultants and prospects on fixed income investment strategy, performance, research and investment insight to help them manage risk and take advantage of market opportunities. In this role he is the global lead strategist for ESG in Fixed Income Solutions.
Rupert works with the ESG research and development, quantitative investment research and management teams to design ESG investment solutions for advisors, consultants and institutional clients, including assessing the Environmental, Social and Governance impact on clients' portfolios and identifying specific investment solutions to align with their ESG objectives.
Rupert joined State Street Global Advisors as a Portfolio Specialist in June 2013, moving from Fortis Investments/BNP Paribas Investment Partners which he joined in September 2009 as an Associate where he worked in both Fixed Income and Equity investments teams with placements in London, New York and Mumbai. Rupert holds a BA in Economics & Geography from the University of Leeds, the Investment Management Certificate (IMC), and the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.