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.
Elena Philipova
Director, Sustainable Finance, Data & Analytics, LSEG
Elena leads LSEG’s sustainable finance and investment data and commercial strategy. She is responsible for driving the integration of ESG, green and sustainable data, insights and analytics into the different products, services and client propositions across LSEG’s Data & Analytics Division. This includes managing the overarching ESG data and commercial strategy, as well as the integration of our market leading ESG, Climate, green revenues and sovereign ESG data sets across LSEG Data & Analytics and FTSE Russell.
Elena has worked in sustainable investments and ESG for 18 years holding a variety of industry positions, including her current membership at the EFRAG SR TEG and she was ex-rapporteur of the European Commission Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance. She was also a member of the ESG Working Group advising the CFA Institute on ESG standards for financial products.
Previously, Elena led the global ESG business at Refinitiv, the former Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters. Her career began at Morgan Stanley and then, ASSET4, where she worked as a Senior ESG Analyst and later Head of ESG Data Quality.
Elena holds an MBA and BA in Finance and International business from Stetson University, Florida.