Alexander Zanker is a managing director in the ESG analytics team of LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. He is responsible for the team and for the use of the tool ESG Cockpit. Alexander is a member of the ESG committee of the LGT CP. He started his career as an analyst at Commerzbank Securities and we economic research at Deka Investment GmbH, in Frankfurt. From 2008 to 2011 he was Director of Investments at LGT Capital Management in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. Before returning to work at LGT in 2014, Alexander was a director at Vontobel Asset Management and before that a director at Truewealth AG in Zurich.

Annu Nieminen is the founder and CEO of Upright, a technology company building a new type of an AI-enabled quantification model to measure the net impact of companies. Upright’s mission is to create concrete incentives for companies to optimize their net impact, by enabling more fact-based decision-making for investors, customers, employees, and public sector organizations.

Upright’s quantification model draws

together masses of scientific publications and company-disclosed data to

quantify both positive and negative impacts that companies have on the

environment, health of people, society and knowledge. Upright’s open-access

impact data platform is currently used by 200+ institutional investors and

companies to track, report and improve their net impact. Nieminen has been

chosen as an Innovator Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review, and holds a M.

Sc. (Eng.) in Information Networks from Aalto University. Prior to founding

Upright, Nieminen worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and as CEO

of Finnish scaleup initiative Kasvuryhmä.

Ariane Maurer is an Analyst in the ESG Analytics team at LGT Capital Partners Ltd. Before joining the firm in 2019, Ms Maurer completed her Master degree in Environmental Sciences at ETH Zürich with a specialization in Atmosphere and Climate. Between her Bachelor and Master studies, Ms Maurer worked as an intern at Zurich Insurance in the Risk Engineering department in the Natural Hazards team. During her master studies, Ms Maurer worked as a tutor at ETH for an applied mathematics course.

Christian Binz is concentrating on the question of how urban infrastructure can be transformed towards greater sustainability. After completing his PhD at Eawag and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he held postdoctoral positions in the USA, China and Sweden, including a year in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University. Since 2017, he has been leading a research group at Eawag that focuses on environmental innovations in the water and energy sectors and explores how globalization supports or hinders sustainability transformations. He is also active on the board of the global Sustainability Transitions Research Network and is in close contact with cities and companies experimenting with green technologies and innovative approaches to a circular economy.

Hanna Edström is an Executive Director and responsible for Liquid Markets ESG at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. In this capacity, she drives the ESG agenda for the liquid markets including investments, communication and education. Ms. Edström is a member of the ESG committee for LGT Capital Partners. She originally joined the firm in 2008 and spent her first years on the investment side focusing on multi-asset portfolios. In 2017, she moved to Shanghai to work on a range of start-up projects, and then rejoined the firm in 2019. Ms. Edström then moved to the client relationship side, mainly covering Nordic clients before taking on the ESG role. Ms. Edström started her career as an investment officer at IKB Credit Asset Management. She holds an MSc in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and an MSc in International Management from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). Ms. Edström is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and is fluent in Swedish, English and German.

Keimpe Keuning is a Principal at LGT Capital Partners in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, and he chairs the Private Markets ESG Subcommittee. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, he was portfolio manager for sustainable private equity at RobecoSAM in Zurich, a boutique investment firm focusing on sustainable and responsible investing. Earlier in his career, he worked for Fortis Bank as an associate director in investment banking in Amsterdam. Mr. Keuning holds a Msc in Tax Law from Leiden University and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). He is fluent in Dutch, English and German.