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Jeffrey D. Sachs President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. Sachs has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General António Guterres. Sachs was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders and was ranked by The Economist among the top three most influential living economists.

Christina Ronac Head of Global Emerging Markets Debt Credit Research HSBC

Christina Ronac is Head of Global Emerging Markets Debt Credit Research. She is responsible for making corporate credit recommendations covering and following existing corporate holdings as well as additional names within the EMD universe. She joined HSBC Global Asset Management in 2014 from Marathon Asset Management where she was an emerging markets credit analyst focused on Latin American corporates. At Sandell Asset Management she focused on distressed and HY credit. Ms. Ronac is a CFA Charter holder. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Occidental College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Pierre-Yves Bareau Managing Director JPMorgan Asset Management

Pierre-Yves Bareau, Managing Director, is the Head and CIO of the Emerging Market Debt team in the Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities (GFICC) group. In this role, Pierre-Yves is responsible for coordinating resources and investors located in New York, London and Asia. Also a member of the Global Fixed income Operating committee. Prior to joining the firm in 2009, Pierre-Yves was at Fortis Investments for ten years, serving as the chief investment officer for Emerging Markets Fixed Income. Previously, he spent two years at FP Consult (France), an emerging markets bond and equity boutique, working as a portfolio manager. Pierre-Yves began his career in 1991 at BAREP Asset Management, a hedge fund boutique owned by Societe Generale, serving as an emerging markets portfolio manager. Pierre-Yves holds a graduate degree in finance and a master’s degree in management from the ESCEM Groupe in France. 

Esty Dwek Head of Global Market Strategy Natixis IM Solutions

Ms. Esty Dwek has over 15 years of experience in the financial sector. Prior to joining Natixis Investment Managers in 2016, she worked on global strategies in the emerging markets team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. Her responsibilities included providing macro and asset class views and asset allocation ideas.

Esty began her career in the investment industry in 2006 at HSBC Private Bank, where she worked in Geneva, New York and Singapore, before taking up the position of Investment Strategist in London for six years.

As Head of Global Market Strategy, Natixis IM Solutions, Esty is responsible for market research, macroeconomic views, investment ideas, asset class and asset allocation views and long-term return assumptions. These views help inform investment decisions in Natixis IM Solutions' portfolios.

Ms. Dwek holds a B.A. in Political Science from Princeton University.

Giulia Pellegrini Senior Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Debt AllianzGI

Giulia Pellegrini is a Senior Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Debt at AllianzGI, where she focuses on EM sovereign debt strategies and Sustainable Investing. She also advises the London Stock Exchange as a member of their Sustainable Bond Market Advisory Group. Prior to joining AllianzGI in 2020, she was Head of Sustainable EM Debt Investing at BlackRock since 2015. Ms Pellegrini was previously Chief Economist for Sub-Saharan Africa in J.P. Morgan’s Emerging Market Research team in London and in Johannesburg and an Economist at the World Bank in the Africa Finance and Private Sector Development Department in Washington D.C. She started her career as an Economist at the Debt Management Office of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Abuja. Giulia holds master degrees in Development Economics and in Econometrics from the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College and from Birkbeck College as well as a BSc in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London.