CLIMATE
WORKING GROUP

Karin Wessman

Head of Sustainability, EKN

Karin has 20 years professional experience in the field of responsible business practices and is currently heading a team of 9 sustainability experts at EKN. Prior to joining EKN in 2013, Ms. Wessman worked as a sustainability consultant and prior to that spent nine years working for WWF, the World Wide fund for Nature.

Eve Hall

Associate Director, BERNE UNION SECRETARIAT



Eve is skilled in corporate finance, business development and investor relations with experience in financial services, management consulting, international media and, most recently, export credit insurance. Primary responsibility for managing the BU Climate Working Group as well as Prague Club, SME, reinsurance, and project finance specialist groups.  

Paul Heaney

Secretary General, BERNE UNION SECRETARIAT

Paul has over a decade of experience working on all aspects of strategic communications, media, PR and stakeholder engagement within international finance. He manages Berne Union research, publications and outreach to external stakeholders, including through the 'Capacity Sharing Marketplace' initiative.

Adama Mariko

Adjoint Directeur Exécutif Stratégie, Partenariats et Communication, AGENCE FRANÇAISE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT& Secretary General, FINANCE IN COMMON

Prior to FiCS in 2021, Adama was AFD’s Management Board member in charge of financial planning. Adama joined AFD in 2009. He has worked in West Africa, in the Indian Ocean, and in both the Finance and Risk departments at Paris headquarter. Recently appointed Deputy Director for Strategy, Partnerships and Communication of AFD, Adama joined FICS as Secretary General. Adama graduated in Finance from Paris-Dauphine and holds a Master in Public Administration from Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

Clement Yapo

Senior ESG Officer, AFRICAN TRADE INSURANCE AGENCY

Clement is an Ivorian national who have been working in environmental and social field for more than 20 years, supporting companies within Africa to mitigate negative E&S impacts. Since March 2021, he joined the headquarters of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) in Nairobi as Senior ESG Officer.

Simon Morden

Senior Underwriter, Global Political Risk, Credit & Bond, AXA XL

Simon is a Senior Underwriter in the Political and Credit Risk team at AXA XL, a division of AXA Group. He joined in 2018 and prior to which he had a 21 year banking career, 15 years of which were in Loan Syndications including a 5 year period in Abu Dhabi. Simon has worked for SCB, GIB, SMBCE and FAB during his banking career.

Irene Visser

Head of Strategy, ATRADIUS Dutch State Business

Maëlia Dufour

Director International Relations, Business Development, Rating, Environment and Climate, BPIFRANCE

Maëlia has worked for the French State Export Credit Agency, for many years.
She deals with a wide range of environmental, social and climate issues along with her team of experts in that field.

Julio Fernandez-Giro Ayuga

Senior Analyst, CESCE

Julio has been working for Cesce since 2007 as an E&S and technical specialist reviewing high-risk projects, and also providing support to the Spanish Administration in the international negotiations at the OECD and the EU. Recently, intensively focused on climate change aspects.

Ralph Lerch

Head of Export Finance, DZ BANK

Ralph joined DZ BANK in May 2018 and heads a dedicated team of export finance spe-cialists covering all major ECAs. From 2013 to 2018 Ralph acted as Chair of EBF’s Export Credit Working Group. Heis a member of the ICC Export Finance Committee, the ICC Sustainability Working Group and the EulerHermes Expert Group.

Leah Gilbert Morris

Director, International and ECA Relations, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CANADA

An environmental scientist by education, Leah has more than two decades of export credit and international trade finance experience, and a strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) background. She has led the Canadian delegation for export credit to the OECD and IWG and served a four-year term as a Vice-Chair of the OECD Export Credit Bureau and as Chair of the OECD Environmental and Social Practitioners' working group. She presently leads EDC’s International & ECA Relations team and she has also served in two multilateral DFIs, Canada's commercial banking sector and the Canadian Department of Finance.

Da-Jeong Kim

Advisor, Climate and ESG Policy, EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CANADA

Da-Jeong joined EDC in 2018 and is an Advisor on ESG Policy (Climate), leading EDC’s carbon accounting and climate-related disclosure. Da-Jeong holds a M.Env.Sc from the University of Toronto specialized in climate change impact assessment and a B.Sc. (Ag.Env) from McGill University. Prior to EDC, she worked in environmental field research and sustainable facilities management.

Toke Philipsen Prahm

Chief Policy Advisor International Regulation and Policy, EIFO

Toke is Chief policy advisor at EIFO Export and Investment Fund of Denmark working primarily on international negotiations and climate issues. Toke is part of EIFO's International Regulation and Policy team with a primary focus on export credit policy at EU and OECD level. Toke has been working on updating the OECD Arrangement for Export Credits covering a wide range of topics from financial terms and conditions to climate.

At EIFO Toke has worked on Climate Strategy, CO2 displacement model, Net Zero commitment and a GHG footprint assessment. Further, Toke represents Denmark in the E3F coalition where COP26 statement implementation and phase out of support for fossil fuel related activity is a focus area. On international climate issues Toke represents EIFO at the work undertaken at GFANZ. Toke is a member of the EU Export Finance Lab. 

Victor Carstenius

Senior Analyst, EKN

Victor Carstenius is a senior analyst at the Swedish Export Credit Agency EKN. Victor is working within the sustainability team at EKN with climate related projects; including analysing climate related risks and opportunities, product development to promote green export, and setting climate targets and strategies for EKN’s portfolio. Victor is an economist by education and has a background in country and bank risk analysis.

Chris Mitman

Global Head of Export Finance, INVESTEC

Chris is Global Head of Export Finance at Investec Bank plc based in London where he founded the business in 2010. Previously he was Global Head of Export Finance at ANZ Bank based in Singapore. He is a member of the ICC Export Finance Committee and Co-Chair of the ICC Export Finance Sustainability Working Group which recently published a landmark White Paper on Sustainability in Export Finance

Olga Sclovscaia

Regional Head Europe & Central Asia, MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY

Olga covers climate thematically in MIGA’s operations. She has co-led the formulation of MIGA’s corporate climate strategy and operationalization of the World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan. She has led a project to understand the regulatory treatment of climate projects globally.

Marlena Hurley

Head of ECA and International Relations, U.S. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION

Marlena has 10 years of experience in political risk insurance and 20 years in international development. With DFC she works on developing solutions for renewable energy and other projects supporting climate resilience and mitigation. In 2019, she co-founded the initiative with The Nature Conservancy to support Blue Bonds for Marine Conservation through political risk insurance.