Dylan Emery
Co-founder and director of research, Last Word 

Dylan is co-founder and director of research for Last Word, a leading global financial publishing, events and research house and sister company to Investment News. He was the founding editorial director and responsible for creating our global brands including International Adviser, Portfolio Adviser and Expert Investor. His background is as a financial journalist, having worked on investment specialist titles for more than 20 years.

Natalie Kenway
Global head of ESG insight, Last Word 

Natalie has been a journalist covering the retail asset management industry for 15 years. She spent much of this time at Incisive Media where she worked her through the ranks to acting editor, but also spent time at Fund Strategy and Research in Finance. She joined Last Word as editor of ESG Clarity in February 2020 and was promoted to global head of ESG insight in January 2021. She has a particular passion for supporting greater diversity within the investment and savings sector.

Rupert Walker
Regional editor, Asia, Last Word 

Rupert Walker is an award-winning financial journalist and editor with a background as a fund manager and investment banker in London and Singapore. He was educated at Oxford and London universities, and is a CFA charter holder.

Edris Boey
Head of ESG research, Maitri Asset Management 

Edrisis head of ESG research at Maitri Asset Management and is responsible for developing and maintaining the firm’s proprietary ESG integrated investment framework and practice. Prior to joining Maitri Asset Management, she managed sustainability strategy, reporting, and compliance at Hong Leong Asia. She started her career in KPMG’s Financial Audit Department, and then moved to its climate change and sustainability department.

Andrew Howard
Head of sustainability research, Schroders

Andrew's role involves thought leadership, ESG integration and engagement. He is also a climate change specialist for Schroders’ Global Climate Change strategy. He joined Schroders in 2016, previously, he was an equity analyst at Didas Research and Goldman Sachs. He began his investment career in 1997 as an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He is a senior adviser to Critical Resource and on the advisory panel of the Future-Fit Business initiative.

Paul Milon
Head of stewardship, Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas Asset Management

Paul leads BNPP AM’s stewardship activities in Asia Pacific. This includes direct corporate engagement and proxy voting, working with policymakers on key issues relating to sustainable finance and investment, and representing BNPP AM in key investor ESG networks. He has more than 13 years of experience in the asset management industry

Kanol Pal
Senior adviser, responsible investments, BNP Paribas Wealth Management Asia

Kanol is responsible for defining the bank’s sustainable and responsible investments offer and setting up the SRI product platform across all asset classes for high-net-worth individuals. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the industry having worked as bank treasury manager, head of fixed income and derivatives sales and head of investment services in Singapore and Europe.

Preyesh Patel
Senior ESG analyst, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, Franklin Templeton

Preyesh joined the Franklin Templeton Investments' ESG team in 2018 as an analyst focused on environmental, social and governance issues, transferring to the Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets group in 2021. Prior to joining, he held the role of analyst, responsible investing at T Rowe Price, providing ESG research support to the investment division. During his tenure at T Rowe Price (2010-2018), he also held positions supporting the firm's emerging markets equity products in analytical and research roles.

Isaac Poole
Chief investment officer, Oreana Financial Services

Isaac has significant experience in the financial sector with a career spanning across central banking, risk management, asset allocation and investment consulting in major firms in Australia, the UK and Hong Kong.

Prior to joining Oreana, Isaac worked at Willis Towers Watson as the head of capital markets research in the Asia-Pacific. In this role he contributed to asset allocation decisions, macro-economic analysis and investment research for a global company with more than $107 billion in assets under management and $2.3 trillion assets under advisory. Isaac worked with institutions including major sovereign wealth funds, government agencies and pension funds. Isaac’s focus in this role was delivering asset allocation solutions to improve portfolio outcomes and returns.

Other prior roles include chief economist at NSW Treasury Corporation, tasked with debt financing and investment management for the NSW Government, and manager of economic risk at Lloyds Banking Group, the largest retail bank in Britain. These roles had a heavy emphasis on delivering returns within a robust risk management framework.

Isaac holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sydney in NSW, Australia. Isaac’s PhD developed economic theory and quantitative methods to analyse optimal mechanisms in key financial markets in Australia including government bond auctions and the Australian housing market.

Isaac has also studied at the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of Tasmania in Australia. Isaac is a certified investment management analyst® holder through the Investment and Wealth Institute™.

Anne-Laurence Roucher
Deputy CEO, head of development, finance and operations, Mirova

Anne‐Laurence took a main part in the creation of Mirova and has been deputy CEO since 2015. In 2000, she joined the management consulting firm, AT Kearney, as a business analyst and then as a senior associate in the financial institutions practice. Then in 2005, she started at Natixis Strategy Department before joining Natixis AM in 2007.

Iain Richards
Head of global responsible investment policy, Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Iain Richards joined the company in 2012 and is head of global responsible investment policy, and leads the strategy, development and implementation of our Responsible Investment activities.

Before joining the company Iain was regional head of corporate governance at Aviva Investors.  His career in the City has also included roles at Schroder Investment Management, the policy group of the UK’s Listing Authority (which encompassed the introduction of the UK’s corporate governance ‘comply or explain’ rule in 1993, post the Cadbury Code) and the London Stock Exchange.  Iain has also worked at the UK's Department of Trade and Industry (now BIS) in various roles in the European and competition policy units.

He has written papers around a range of issues including auditing, energy transition, sovereign wealth funds and, in 2006, on the impending risk of a systemic banking crisis.  He was responsible for leading the UK investment industry's successful lobbying to re-establish the overarching 'True & Fair View' principle of accounting in revised UK Company Law (2006). Amongst other things, he has appeared as an expert witness before the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs and was a steering committee member of the UK Investment Association’s Productivity Action Plan (‘Supporting UK Productivity with Long-Term Investment’, 2016).