IFR Asia ESG Financing Roundtable 2023: Participants

IFR Asia ESG Financing Roundtable 2023
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Estelito C. Biacora

Ayala Corporation

Lito has been treasurer of Ayala Corporation since 2018. He is also director of AC Infrastructure Holdings, director of AYC Finance and AYC Holdings, and treasurer of Ayala Foundation. He has served in various senior roles in the Group: senior VP for treasury and global markets at Bank of the Philippine Islands, CIO for BPI Asset Management, and head of BPI Private Banking.

He has also held positions with Far East Bank and Trust Company, and Banco Santander, Philippines.

Alvin Yeo

UBS

Alvin Yeo joined UBS in 2015 and is currently head of green and sustainable finance, leveraged debt capital markets Asia for UBS in Asia, where he leads the structuring and origination efforts for ESG-labelled bonds in the region.

He has been involved in the development and establishment of several green/sustainable/sustainability-linked finance frameworks and subsequent ESG-labelled bond issuances for sovereign, sovereign-linked and corporate borrowers in Asia.

Nicole Lim

Abrdn

Nicole is responsible for ESG integration through bottom-up research, engagement and contributes to ESG considerations in portfolio construction and management. Working with global and regional teams, she supports numerous sustainability strategies, notably SDG and climate transition themed funds as well as several other sustainability-tilted Asian funds.

Jeffrey Sukjoon Lee

Moody’s

Jeffrey Lee oversees a team of analysts in APAC that is responsible for producing second party opinions and sustainability ratings. He is based in Singapore.

Before taking on his current role, he worked in Moody’s Investor Services’ financial institutions group. He has also served as an assistant vice president in a team responsible for portfolio of banks and non-bank financial institutions in South and South-East Asia, and led a team covering financial institutions in APAC. Before joining Moody’s in 2013, he worked at Morgan Stanley’s institutional equity division in South Korea.

Daniel Stanton

IFR Asia (moderator)

Daniel Stanton is editor of IFR Asia, based in Singapore. He joined IFR Asia in 2009, and since then has held roles including Asia bond editor and Asia equities editor.

Before joining IFR, Daniel worked for other publications in Singapore, Dubai and London. He holds a MA in International Journalism from the University of Cardiff.

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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