Opportunities for Transition and Competition - National and international perspectives

Event of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Council of the Federal Government as part of the Sustainable Finance Gipfel Deutschland 2023

November 16 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Bundesministerium der Finanzen (Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus), Wilhelmstraße 97, 10117 Berlin | hybrid event

To kick off the event, the chairs of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee will present the participants with the committee’s focus topics and results in the 20th legislative period.

The main part of the event will then be a national and international political panel discussion. On the national panel, Michael Schmidt (Co-Director GSFCG, member of the SFB) will talk with State Secretary Heiko Thoms (BMF) and financial policy spokespersons of some parliamentary groups in the Bundestag about the opportunities of Sustainable Finance for Germany and the transformation to be financed. On the international panel, Prof. Kerstin Lopatta (University of Hamburg, member of the SFB) will speak with State Secretary Heiko Thoms (BMF) and ambassadors (EU and international) about Sustainable Finance in the European and international context. The event will be concluded by a closing speech by State Secretary Stefan Tidow (BMUV).

After the event, there will be an opportunity for exchange at a standing reception.

Agenda  
5:00 p.m. Admission
6:00 p.m.

Welcome by the chair of the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany

6:05 p.m.
Welcome by the chair of the German Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee (German)

Perspectives and focus topics of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Board.

In dialog: The chairs of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Council Silke Stremlau and Christian Heller.

6:20 p.m.

Keynote

State Secretary Heiko Thoms Federal Ministry of Finance

6:25 p.m. 

PANEL 1 (English)

Sustainable Finance in the European and International Context

  • State Secretary Heiko Thoms, Ministry of Finance
  • Ambassador François Delattre, France
  • Ambassador Jill Gallard, UK
  • Ambassador Roberto Jaguaribe Gomes De Mattos, Brazil

Host: Prof. Kerstin Lopatta

7:15 p.m.

Panel 2

Sustainable Finance: Opportunities for Germany

  • Katharina Beck, Member of the Bundestag, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Deputy Head of the Finance Committee
  • Till Mansmann, Member of the Bundestag, FDP
  • Johannes Schraps, Member of the Bundestag, SPD
  • Dr. Hermann-Josef Tebroke, Member of the Bundestag, CDU/CSU

Host: Michael Schmidt, Managing Director, Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany

8:00 p.m.

Closing remarks

State Secretary Stefan Tidow, Ministry of the Environment

Katharina Beck
Katharina BeckBündnis 90/Die GRÜNEN
Katharina Beck has been a member of the Bundestag for Hamburg since 2021. She is the financial policy spokesperson of the Bündnis 90/Die GRÜNEN parliamentary group and deputy chairperson of the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag.
Before entering the Bundestag, Katharina Beck worked as a management consultant for sustainability with DAX companies and their executive boards and as a supervisory board member in an educational fintech. In addition to her mandate, she is also a member of the Board of Directors of KfW and on the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Verantwortungseigentum (Responsible Ownership Foundation).
François Delattre
François DelattreAmbassador of France to Germany
Born on November 15, 1963 in Saint-Marcellin (France), a French national, François DELATTRE is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) in Paris and the École nationale d’administration.
He was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs on July 1, 2019.
François DELATTRE was the Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Organization from September 2014 to July 2019. He previously served for nearly four years as Ambassador of France to the United States (2011-2014), after being Ambassador of France to Canada (2008-2011), French Consul General in New York City (2004-2008), and Press and Communications Director at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1998-2002).
A devoted practitioner of economic diplomacy, he is also an expert in European and transatlantic defense and security. He was in charge of these issues on the diplomatic team (1995-1998) of the French President, Jacques Chirac, where he was also responsible for monitoring the crisis in Bosnia. He furthermore served as an advisor on these issues (1993-1995) in the Office of French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppé, after two years with the Department of Strategic Affairs and Disarmament in the French Foreign Minister’s Office (1991-1993).
François DELATTRE also held the office of Deputy Chief of Staff (2002-2004) to the French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin. Lastly, he was posted to the French Embassy in Bonn, Germany (1989-1991), where he was responsible for environmental affairs and the economic integration of Germany after the reunification.
Jill Gallard
Jill GallardBritish Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
Jill Gallard CMG was appointed British Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany on 11 November 2020. Before joining the Embassy, she was the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Deputy Political Director (2018-2020) and Director of Human Resources (2014-2018). From 2011 to 2014 Jill served as British Ambassador to Portugal.
Since joining the Diplomatic Service in 1991, her career in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office has focussed on Europe with postings in Prague, Madrid and at the European Commission in Brussels. She has also had a wide range of jobs in London, mainly working on the EU and wider Europe.
Christian Heller
Christian HellerSustainable Finance-Beirat der Bundesregierung
Christian Heller is Vice President at BASF SE and seconded as CEO to the Value Balancing Alliance e.V. The non-profit association develops and tests new accounting methods with the real and financial economy in order to capture the impact of business activities on society and nature in monetary terms.
Christian Heller is Vice Chairperson of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee to the Federal Government of Germany, has coordinated the successful application of the city of Frankfurt to host the ISSB and – among other positions – contributes to the G7 Impact Task Force.
Roberto Jaguaribe
Roberto JaguaribeAmbassador of Brazil to the Federal Republic of Germany
Roberto Jaguaribe was born in Rio de Janeiro on December 27, 1952. He holds a degree in Systems Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, having acceded the diplomatic career through a public entrance exam in 1978. Throughout his career, he has held high-level positions both abroad and in Brazil in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as in other federal agencies of the Brazilian Government.
He served in the Mission of Brazil to the United Nations in New York (1983-87), and at the Embassy of Brazil in Montevideo (1987-90). He headed the sections of Intellectual Property and Disarmament in the Mission of Brazil to the UN in Geneva (1993-95). He also served as Minister Counselor – Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) – at the Embassy of Brazil in Washington, DC (2000-03).
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brasilia, he was head of the division of Intellectual Property and Sensitive Technologies (1992); Director-General of the Department of Commercial Promotion (1998-2000); and Undersecretary of Political Affairs for Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific (2007-10).
In other areas of the federal government, he has served as Secretary of International Affairs at the Ministry of Planning and Budget (1995-98) and as Secretary of Industrial Technology at the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (2003-05). He also served as President of the National Institute of Industrial Property – INPI (2005-07). He also served as president of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency – Apex-Brasil (2016-2018).
He was Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2010-15) and to the People’s Republic of China and the People’s Republic of Mongolia (2015-16).
Since February 2019, he is the Ambassador of Brazil to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lopatta
Prof. Dr. Kerstin LopattaUniversity of Hamburg
Kerstin Lopatta is Chair Professor of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg. Furthermore, she is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong as a visting professor. She received her doctoral degree from Goethe University Frankfurt. Kerstin has extensive experience in sustainability reporting and financial accounting in practice and research. Before starting her scientific career, she worked as an audit assistant for Deloitte. She is the vice chair of the EFRAG SRB and a member of the Sustainability Reporting Technical Committee of the ASCG. She is on the Sustainable Finance Committee of the German Ministry of Finance and co-reviewed the adaptation of the German Sustainability Code to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy. During her career Kerstin completed several international research stays including at City University of Hong Kong, New York University’s Stern School of Business, and Copenhagen Business School. In her research, she investigates empirically the effects of environmental, social, and governance factors on business and society. She also covers corporate governance topics such as board structure and diversity. Her work is published in top tier journals like The Accounting Review, Strategic Management Journal and European Accounting Review. Kerstin Lopatta is member of the supervisory board at EQS Group AG, Freenet AG, EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA and chair of the audit committee at EQS Group AG.
Till Mansmann
Till MansmannFDP
Till Mansmann, Member of the Bundestag (since 2017), is full member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, development policy spokesperson of the FDP parliamentary group, Innovation Officer for Green Hydrogen at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (since August 2022), Deputy Chair of the West Africa Parliamentary Group, Member of the Berlin-Taipei Circle of Friends and the German-South Caucasian Parliamentary Group, President of the German-Armenian Forum and member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Population and Development, the Advisory Council of the German Evaluation Institute for Development Cooperation (since October 2018) and the Working Group on World Food Security.
Michael Schmidt
Michael SchmidtGreen and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany
Michael Schmidt is managing director of the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany, Senior Advisor to the Board of LAIQON (previously: Lloyd Fonds) and member of the supervisory board of Anthos Fund & Asset Management. Before, he led investment teams, serving on the executive boards of Lloyd Fonds, Deka Investment and Union Investment, after having managed portfolios at DWS. In a voluntary role, he is a member of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee of the German federal government and was a member of the EU Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (“HLEG”).
Johannes Schraps
Johannes SchrapsSPD
After studying political science, Johannes Schraps was a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament in Brussels from 2011 to 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he was a research assistant in the German Bundestag in the office of Heinz-Joachim Barchmann (SPD), deputy chairman of the European Affairs Committee. He joined the SPD in 1999 and has been a member of the sub-district executive of the SPD Hameln-Pyrmont since 2015. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2017.
Silke Stremlau
Silke StremlauSustainable Finance Advisory Committee of the Federal Government of German
Silke Stremlau has got a senior fellowship from Mercator Foundation and has been the Chairwoman of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee of the Federal Government of Germany since 2022. Until summer 2023 she was on the board of Hannoversche Kassen – a sustainable pension fund. Prior to that, she was a general representative at BANK IM BISTUM ESSEN eG. Between 2000 and 2015, she built up and managed the “Sustainable Investment” division as a partner at imug consulting firm. She studied social sciences with a focus on environmental policy and she obtained a degree in banking management.
Dr. Hermann-Josef Tebroke
Dr. Hermann-Josef Tebroke CDU/CSU parliamentary group
After studying business administration and gaining his doctorate, Dr Hermann-Josef Tebroke worked for several years as a research assistant and later as a professor of finance in Augsburg, Münster, Hamburg and Bayreuth. In 2001, he moved with his family to Lindlar in the Bergisches Land region and was mayor there from 2004. In November 2011, he was elected County Commissioner of the Rheinisch-Bergischer district. Since the 2017 Bundestag elections, he has been a directly elected member of the Bundestag for the Rheinisch-Bergischer district.
Heiko Thoms
Heiko ThomsState Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Heiko Thoms has been State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance since April 2023. He is responsible for financial market politics, European politics and international financial politics. From 2020 to 2023, he functioned as German Ambassador in Brazil; prior to that, he was Deputy Permanent Representative of Germany to NATO and the United Nations. He studied law, Islamic studies and Arabic studies.
Stefan Tidow
Stefan TidowState Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
Stefan Tidow has been State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection since 2021. In this, together with Parliamentary State Secretary Dr. Florian Toncar (BMF) he appointed the Sustainable Finance Advisory Council of the Federal Government for this legislative period. Previously, Stefan Tidow was State Secretary in the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection in the State of Berlin and Permanent Representative of the Plenipotentiaries of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate to the Federal Government and for Europe and Head of the Representation of the State to the Federal Government and the European Union.
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