IFR Asia Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2023: Participants

IFR Asia Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2023
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Aurélia Britsch

Sustainable Fitch

Aurélia Britsch works as a senior director in the environmental, social, and governance research team for Sustainable Fitch. She heads the climate research team, focusing on climate and transition risks for investors, corporates, and financial institutions.

Britsch joined Fitch in 2012 and previously led Fitch Solutions Industry Research’s commodities fundamental analysis and price strategy.

She has also carried out macroeconomic research and strategic analysis for the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, Bretagne International, and the Beijing-based sustainability consultancy SynTao.

Fumitaka Nakahama

MUFG Group

Nakahama was appointed managing corporate executive, group head of global corporate and investment banking (GCIB), MUFG Group, and managing executive officer, chief executive of GCIB, MUFG Bank, both effective April 1 2022. He also became a member of the board of directors at the bank in 2022.

Prior to his current role, he served as deputy chief executive of GCIB since April 2021 and was head of GCIB planning division, MUFG Bank from July 2018 to 2021. Concurrently, Nakahama was head of origination & distribution planning division with MUFG Securities Holdings since June 2019.

Robbie Singh

Adani Group

Robbie Singh is chief financial officer for the Adani Group, with which he has been associated in various capacities over the last eight years. He has more than 16 years of global investment banking experience in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, and Asia.

Singh’s experience includes mergers, acquisitions, strategy, finance, and risk, with a particular focus on infrastructure funds. Prior to joining Adani, he worked in investment banking with a focus on infrastructure, regulated assets, and structured finance for Merrill Lynch, Macquarie Bank, and CBA. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Punjab University and a postgraduate diploma in applied finance from Bond University.

Kavita Sinha

Green Climate Fund

Kavita Sinha is the director of the private sector facility and provides leadership and management oversight of GCF’s private sector operations. She joined GCF after two years with the European Climate Foundation (ECF) as their programme director for clean energy for Asia and the director of the interim secretariat of the Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership. During her time with ECF, she achieved a portfolio growth of 500% and led the successful launch of the Southeast Asia Clean Energy Facility.

Prior to ECF, she spent 15+ years in senior leadership roles in the corporate world, from start-ups to multinational corporations.

Morgan Davis

IFR Asia (moderator)

Morgan Davis is IFR Asia’s bond editor, based in Hong Kong. She started at IFR Asia in October 2021, after previously covering financial markets for GlobalCapital, Asiamoney, NexChange and FundFire in Hong Kong and New York.

IFR Asia has a team of reporters and editors in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, Melbourne, and Mumbai, covering onshore and offshore capital markets transactions across Asia Pacific.

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