Jersey Finance Private Wealth Conference 2020 – Intercom

William Hague was born and brought up in Yorkshire. After attending a local comprehensive (and causing a media sensation as a schoolboy speaker at the Conservative Party Conference), he studied at Oxford and INSEAD, and worked in management consultancy. He then served as Member of Parliament for Richmond for 26 years. William has been a prominent political leader for more than 20 years, serving as Leader of the Conservative Party and as Foreign Secretary. After announcing his intention to step down, he concluded his political career as First Secretary of State and Leader of the House of Commons. In four years as Foreign Secretary, William dealt with a turbulent period encompassing wars in Libya and Syria, withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Ukraine crisis, the struggle against terrorism and relations with Europe. He expanded Britain's diplomatic network and placed a renewed emphasis on export success.

Ruby Wax has been an unconventional interviewer, a comedian, writer, actor and campaigner. She has provided the cartoon voice of The Pope, written for Absolutely Fabulous, and interviewed Donald Trump. More recently she’s become a best-selling memoirist and mental health expert. Having studied psychology in her native US, she took the unusual move to then study acting in the UK. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and formed a writing and directing partnership with Alan Rickman before moving to TV and film. She found her niche in comedy, working with the likes of Tracey Ullman and French & Saunders. She then took on a series of interview shows where she had revealing, entertaining, and sometimes awkward confrontations with the likes of Madonna, Imelda Marcos and Richard Branson. Ruby struggled with depression for many years and having suffered in silence, she worked hard to encourage media, business and society to understand mental illness and remove the stigma.

Ali Cambray is the PwC Channel Islands sustainability and climate change specialist, based in Jersey. An environmental scientist by training, she has 20 years' experience working with businesses and governments around the world on sustainable development strategy, policy, planning and financing. She is passionate about mobilising finance for the urgently needed global transformation to a low carbon economy and, within the field of ESG investing, is particularly interested in climate risk and opportunity.

Andrew W. Mitchell is an international thought leader on natural capital finance and tropical forests. Founder of Equilibrium Futures, he provides strategic advice on natural capital to the finance sector; he is also Senior Adviser to Oxford think tank, Global Canopy, which he founded in 2001. As Founder and Senior Adviser to the Natural Capital Finance Alliance, he helps to design natural capital tools for banks, investors and insurers and is Senior Adviser to Mirova Natural Capital, a global impact investment fund.

Listed among the 100 Most Influential in UK - India Relationships, Darshita is Founder and CEO of Maanch - a multi-award winning global impact platform connecting high impact organisations around the world with philanthropic and impact capital providers and linking global progress on SDGs. Her aim is to leverage the power of emerging technologies to address the complex business and societal challenges we face in a more sustainable, conscious and strategic way. Her experience builds on and blends three facets: 'Finance', 'Technology' and 'Planetary Sustainability’. With a professional background as Chartered Accountant, Investment Banker, Executive Coach, Impact Investing and FinTech/ Blockchain Specialist, Darshita also serves on Boards of 'For Profit' and 'Non-Profit' organisations.

Fergus Drake is Chief Executive of Crown Agents, a not-for-profit international development company, established in 1833. Crown Agents' work reaches over 120 million people in 50 countries, with expertise in public sector transformation, humanitarian & stabilisation, procurement reform, last mile supply chain, health system strengthening and training & professional development. Prior to Crown Agents, Fergus was Executive Director of Global Programmes at Save the Children UK from 2009 to 2017. Prior to Save the Children, he worked at the centre of government, including roles with HM Treasury in the UK, Deloitte in their public sector practice, and was embedded in the Government of Rwanda with Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative.

John David is Head of Rathbone Greenbank Investments, the specialist ethical, sustainable, impact investment unit of Rathbone Investment Management. John has specialised in this field for nearly 20 years and leads a team of 30 managing £1.6 billion for private clients, charities and trusts with wide-ranging environmental, social and governance interests and impact objectives. A graduate of Exeter University, John is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI).

Kurt is the Head of Sustainable Investments in Europe for the United Nations SDG - Innovative Finance. He is an experienced impact investor with 15 years of experience in integrating SDGs and ESG factors in portfolios and investment strategies. Kurt leads engagements with family offices and investors that want to align their investments with the SDGs in emerging economies. He has worked for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the IFC, as well as for impact investing organisations. Kurt is the author of the Impact Investing Market Map (PRI), an investment framework to assist investors in identifying SDG opportunities in the listed equity market.

Richard is a key member of Ocorian's family office practice and specialises in the provision of services for ultra-high net worth families. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant working in Jersey, Australia and New Zealand prior to founding and managing a high profile, full-service single family office for over a decade. During that time, Richard also completed his MBA through the Warwick Business School. Richard merged that single-family office with Ocorian (previously Bedell Trust) in 2013. Since that time the Ocorian family office practice has grown substantially and now includes a number of ultra-high net worth families of various nationalities with assets held globally. He has over 20 years' experience in setting up and managing high value and complex intergenerational wealth structures, including Private Trust Companies, trusts, foundations and companies as well as being closely involved in his clients' worldwide philanthropic affairs.

Rod specialises in safeguarding the privacy and reputations of corporations, brands and public figures, particularly in the world of international business and politics. Much of his focus is international in nature, and whilst many of the matters he works on have a media element, he often advises on threats to reputation and privacy that emanate from non-media sources such as malicious insiders, disgruntled business partners, or simply those with an axe to grind. In every instance, the ability to offer practical legal advice at speed is vital. Rod is ranked as a leader in his field in Chambers & Partners, the Spear's 500, the Spear's Reputation Management index and the Private Client Global Elite index.

Sarah Gordon took over as Chief Executive of the Impact Investing Institute in September 2019. Previously, she spent 18 years at the Financial Times, where she ran the paper's corporate coverage during the financial crisis, and was most recently business editor. Before journalism, she worked in fund management in the UK and the US, and at the UN Conference for Trade and Development in Geneva. She was a panel member of the recent independent inquiry into the future of civil society, led by Julia Unwin CBE, and was formerly a trustee of CSV, one of the UK’s largest volunteering charities. She is a non-executive director of Social Finance and a visiting professor at Kings College London.

After a 15 year corporate career, Tessa Co-founded OLIO, the world's only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, which is solving the problem of household food waste at scale. OLIO has grown to over 2 million users in just four years and its impact has been widely recognised, most notably by the United Nations who highlighted OLIO as a "beacon" for the world, and by Vivatech who awarded OLIO 'Next European Unicorn'. Tessa is passionate about the sharing economy as a solution for a sustainable world, and about ‘profit with purpose’ as the next business paradigm.

Dr. Emiko Caerlewy-Smith is Founder and CEO of KIT Consulting, a Jersey-based financial services strategy, research and management consultancy with a global client base. KIT Consulting incorporates KIT Sustainability which helps clients to build sustainable businesses, products and services; practice corporate social responsibility; and, leverage the competitive advantage of ESG integration. Emiko is lead capital markets advisor to HRH The Prince of Wales’ Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), working across global capital markets to integrate ESG. Prior to founding KIT, Emiko held senior roles with the UK Pensions Regulator, PwC and Lloyds Banking Group, and was Chief Operating Officer for Barclays in the Channel Islands. She has a BA (Hons) degree in Environmental Management and Oxford DPhil (PhD) in Behavioural Finance.

Gwyn is a highly experienced writer, interviewer and broadcaster who has worked in international and UK national TV for the BBC and ITN. She has also presented local radio in Jersey and written for major UK and Channel Island newspapers and magazines. Gwyn’s career includes financial journalism and business, as well as digital and technology roles. She is a published author, currently writing novels while juggling a PR/digital marketing consultancy.