A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
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Charlotte O'Leary
CEO, UK Pensions for Purpose
As CEO and an Executive Director of Pensions for Purpose, Charlotte oversees the running of the business, develops the growth and innovation strategy and looks for opportunities to build partnerships to achieve our vision. She has been involved with every part of Pensions for Purpose’s service offering and business operations, as well as completing the first B Corp impact assessment in 2023. Charlotte now co-leads the training and Business Briefing service for asset owners and their advisers.
Charlotte is a member of the Sounding Board for the Social Value Portal, the Advisory Board for the Sororum, the pensions expert group for the Global Steering Group for Impact Investing and a member of the Pensions Equity Group. These roles demonstrate Charlotte’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as systems change.
She has over 15 years of experience in asset management, starting in fund analysis and progressing through to institutional business development, having worked for some well known institutions, including Jupiter, Pictet and Cambridge Associates. Through these positions, Charlotte has built a knowledge and passion for sustainable investing. She has demonstrated this in co-authoring a paper with the Society for Pension Professionals on social impact investing in 2017 and speaking on topics such as fee and service transparency at PLSA and Transparency Taskforce events. She played a leading part in developing the Impact Investing Institute's Impact Investing Principles for Pensions.
Outside of work, Charlotte is a mother to two children, a fitness and running enthusiast, a volunteer with Redstart (a charity educating children on savings and investments) and is always looking for ways to improve her own social and environmental impact.
