Net Zero Investment Summit: Guildhall, 71 Basinghall St, London EC2V 7HH

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Net Zero Investment Summit: Guildhall, 71 Basinghall St, London EC2V 7HH
25th October 2022
8:30am - 7:30pm

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The Cities Commission for Climate Investment, 3Ci, aims to help secure the necessary finance to support the transition to net zero.

This Summit will convene leading national decision-makers and influencers from national and local government, investors, and NGOs responsible for the driving of investment into net zero projects across cities.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Lord Deben, Chairman of the Climate Change Committee and Professor Greg Clark CBE, Chair of 3Ci and the Connected Places Catapult.

If you are in Local Government, join us to:

  • Help us design a new national technical assistance facility
  • Understand how we can help bring your projects forward for investment
  • Network with and share knowledge with other local authorities

If you are in the Investment Sector, join us to:

  • Understand the investment opportunities being generated by local authorities
  • Ensure the right investment decisions are factored into national programmes
  • Contribute towards the design of a national technical facility and net zero pipeline

If you are from central government or industry, join us to:

  • Understand the wider opportunities that can be unlocked through net zero
  • Develop wider strategic relationships between different sectors and players
  • Influence the agenda by sharing your priorities and challenges
Prof Greg Clark CBE
Chair Connected Places Catapult & Chair
3Ci
He is chair of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC), the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place-leadership, ...
He is chair of the Connected Places Catapult (CPC), the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place-leadership, and Chair of the UK Cities Commission for Climate Investment (3Ci) which convenes city leaders and urban investors to finance a just net zero transition. He is a Board member of Transport for London (TfL) and the London LEP. He chairs TfL’s new Land and Property Committee that oversees TfL low carbon property and housing company (TTLP).  He is a member of the WEF Global Future Council on Cities & Urbanisation and a member of the Bloomberg NEF Council on Cities.  He is Hon Prof of Urban Innovation at Strathclyde University and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is author of 10 books and 100 reports on cities, innovation, investment and place-leadership. His monthly column: The Planet of Cities, is hosted by RICS. He is Global Cities expert on the BBC World Service Series, My Perfect City.

Greg is a world expert on cities, urban innovation, investment, and the net zero transition. Over 35 years, he has worked with more than 300 cities, 40 national governments, 20 multilateral institutions, and multiple global corporates and investors. His previous roles include Group Advisor, Future Cities & New Industries at HSBC Investment Bank, Chair of the OECD Forum of Cities & Regions, Global Fellow on Cities and Metropolitan leadership at the Brookings Institution, and Global Fellow on Urban Investment at the Urban land Institute. He was Lead Advisor on Cities to the UK Gov, and was Executive Director of the London Development Agency and Managing Director of Greater London Enterprise. He has been a senior advisor on urban investment to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the European Investment Bank.

He has chaired more than 20 internal advisory boards for individual cities that are reformulating their future investment strategies, long term plans, and governance, including New York, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Sydney, Auckland, Barcelona, Vienna, and Oslo. He has led comparative studies on Chinese, Australian, European, North American, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Chinese, ASEAN, and Indian Cities.  Since 2020 he has been tracking the impact of the COVID pandemic on 100 cities globally, and has developed a unique framework for assessing the post-pandemic city.

Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben
Chair
UK Climate Change Committee
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, set up and now runs Sancroft, a Corporate Responsibility consultancy working with blue-...
The Rt. Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, set up and now runs Sancroft, a Corporate Responsibility consultancy working with blue-chip companies around the world on environmental, social and ethical issues. Lord Deben is Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change and Valpak Limited. He was the longest serving Secretary of State for the Environment the UK has ever had (1993-97). His sixteen years of top-level ministerial experience also include Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, Minister for London, Employment Minister and Paymaster General in HM Treasury. He has consistently championed an identity between environmental concerns and business sense.
Philip Glanville
Mayor
Hackney
Keith Bottomley
Deputy Policy Chairman
City of London Corporation
Keith is an elected Member of the City of London Corporation and is widely involved in leading on sustainability, climate ...
Keith is an elected Member of the City of London Corporation and is widely involved in leading on sustainability, climate action, sport engagement, youth, education, environment and broader policy agendas.

He is Deputy Chairman of the City of London Corporation’s Policy and Resources Committee, Chairman of its Port Health and Environment Committee, and Chairman of Communications and Corporate Affairs Committee.

Keith is passionate about advancing the interests of young people and about skills and education. He is a Governor of the City of London School and the new City Junior Schools and chairs Partnership for Young London which advances and influences London, Regional and central government on youth policy.

Keith is also Chairman of the City of London BIDs Strategic Partnership, as well as a Trustee of Heart of the City.  A Member of the City of London Gresham Committee, Trustee of Housing for the Homeless Central Fund and Bart’s Hospital Guild.

As a Chartered Banker and former Director of Communications at NatWest Group he has a great deal of experience of working at a senior level in the City of London’s dynamic financial services industry.

Joanna Rowelle
Director, Cities Planning and Design
Arup
Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE
Chief Executive Officer
Green Finance Institute
Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas is Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute, backed by the UK Government and City of ...
Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas is Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute, backed by the UK Government and City of London Corporation. Rhian spent 20 years in investment banking and corporate finance and was awarded an OBE for services to green banking. She is an Emeritus Member of TCFD and co-chaired the launch of the TNFD. Rhian sits on numerous advisory groups across UK Government including the Net Zero Expert Group, Centre for Greening Finance and Investment, Global Resources Initiative, Department for Transport Expert Panel, Her Majesty’s Treasury Green Technical Advisory Group and the UK Voluntary Carbon Markets Forum. Rhian was also a commissioner on the Zero Carbon Commission and a member of the Climate Change Committee’s Net Zero Finance Advisory Group.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Rhian holds a PhD in Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

John Cummins
Managing Director Group Investments
Aviva Group
John Cummins is MD of Aviva Group Investments. From 2018-2021 he was MD for Future Cities at Legal & ...
John Cummins is MD of Aviva Group Investments. From 2018-2021 he was MD for Future Cities at Legal & General Capital. He led a team of over 20 investment professionals in regeneration, clean energy, and data centre investments. The team had responsibility for over £1 billion in these sectors. John was Chair of Risk Committee of Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets from 2017-2021. In 2021 he was appointed to the Board of Absa Group PLC, a large African banking group. He was RBS Group Treasurer from October 2007-2017. During this time, he was responsible for long term interest rate risk management, all wholesale funding, long term funding and capital issuance, structural FX, pension risk and capital management.
From 1997-2007 John was Standard Life Group Treasurer.  John served on the Board of IFFIM for seven years, a global vaccine charity which raised over USD $4 billion for global vaccines. He served as Chair of the Sabin Foundation Europe with focus on neglected topical diseases for five years and is currently an expert panel adviser to the Pandemic Institute, Liverpool.

Professional qualifications
John has a MA in Modern History having graduated from Oxford University and MBA from Bradford University.

Jamie Driscoll
Mayor
North of Tyne
Jamie is positioning the North of Tyne as a clear national leader in green growth, based on a ‘Zero Carbon, ...
Jamie is positioning the North of Tyne as a clear national leader in green growth, based on a ‘Zero Carbon, Zero Poverty’ mission, with a just transition at its core.

Elected Mayor of the North of Tyne Combined Authority in May 2019, Jamie immediately prioritised creating green jobs, and decarbonising our economy. His target from Government is to create 10,000 jobs over a 30 year period. Already there are over 4,000 high-quality jobs in the pipeline, and more than 2,500 jobs safeguarded during the pandemic. Every job created is backed by our Good Work Pledge.

Jamie provides leadership over a vast range of projects. From offshore wind to growing the culture and creative sector to supporting tech start-up businesses.  There’s an £18 million Green New Deal for jobs and an inclusive skills programme to make sure everyone can benefit.  The Mayor’s Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change has taken place. Through the Mayor’s Fund, the NTCA works with local communities on projects like bee keeping and re-wilding.

A passionate socialist; an engineer; and a black-belt in jiu jitsu, Jamie lives in Gosforth with his wife and sons.

Georgia Gould
Leader
Camden London Borough Council
Georgia Gould was elected a Councillor for Kentish Town ward for Camden Council in 2010 at the age of 24. ...
Georgia Gould was elected a Councillor for Kentish Town ward for Camden Council in 2010 at the age of 24. After holding a range of Cabinet portfolios, she became Leader in 2017 and as Leader has made citizen voice, participation and co-production a priority for the organisation. Under her leadership the Council held the country’s first Climate Emergency Citizens Assembly in 2019 to inform the response to our climate and ecological emergency. Georgia is Chair of London Councils and Co-Chair of the London Recovery Taskforce as well as a member of the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP) Board. @Georgia_Gould
Denise Murray
Director of Finance
Bristol City Council
Denise has been the Chief Finance Officer at Bristol City Council since 2016 and has extensive experience of delivering service ...
Denise has been the Chief Finance Officer at Bristol City Council since 2016 and has extensive experience of delivering service improvements in large complex organisations. Her local government, voluntary and private sector roles have provided a sound understanding of a wide range of People, Place, Commercial and Corporate functions at county, borough, district and parish level.

She is an influential senior leader, driving transformational programmes such as devolution and large scale regeneration and has a successful track record tackling the challenges local government face, optimising outcomes using innovative approaches and private investment capital with shared risks and reward.

Denise has long championed Impact Investment, and was a winner of the MJ Award for Innovative Finance with the work she led on Social Impact Bonds. She has subsequently  driven the programme to embed  social value and  ethical and equitable investment principles within Bristol City Council, along with a range of impact investments, City Funds, community bank and more recently City Leap public / private partnership, which is aimed at delivering low carbon energy infrastructure at scale to assist Bristol in achieving its goal to decarbonise the city’s energy system by 2030.

Guy Grainger
Global Head of Sustainability Services and ESG
JLL
Guy Grainger is Global Head of Sustainability Services and ESG at NYSE-listed real estate services company JLL. He has ...
Guy Grainger is Global Head of Sustainability Services and ESG at NYSE-listed real estate services company JLL. He has overall responsibility for sustainability services, products and strategy, and for JLL’s corporate sustainability program.

Previously, Guy led the EMEA region since June 2016, also serving as a member of JLL’s Global Executive Board.  Prior to that, he was CEO of the UK business between 2013 and 2016, having originally joined as a senior leader of the Churston Heard business acquired by JLL in 2008.

Outside of JLL, Guy is President of the British Property Federation. An alumnus of the London Business School Senior Executive Programme, he is also an established media commentator on sustainability, the built and natural environment, and amateur triathlete in his spare time.”

Steve Turner
Director
3Ci
Steve is based at the Connected Places Catapult where he his Director of ...
Steve is based at the Connected Places Catapult where he his Director of 3Ci – the Cities Commission for Climate Investment. Working with the Advisory Board he has overall managerial responsibility for the implementation of the 3Ci’s strategy and operations working closely with leaders from cities, industry, finance and government. As a recognised leader in innovation and sustainability he has over 25 years of experience working in both the public and private sector. Previously, he was Digital Cities Leader for Arup where he delivered sustainability focussed technology strategies for some of the largest developments in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, representing £billions of investment. He has held several senior positions across local government, primarily in London and Manchester. As Head of Low Carbon Economy in Greater Manchester he established the UK’s first Low Carbon Economic Area and a joint venture alongside the Green Investment Bank. He also established the city’s widely admired sustainability innovation programmes, Triangulum and CityVerve.

Niall Bolger
Chief Executive
London Borough of Hounslow
Niall Bolger is Chief Executive for the London Borough of Hounslow who were awarded the LGC Council of the Year ...
Niall Bolger is Chief Executive for the London Borough of Hounslow who were awarded the LGC Council of the Year 2021.  He is Lead CEO for Skills and Employment and Regeneration for the West London Alliance, Chair of the London PREVENT Board and lead CEO for Environment and Climate Change for the Chief Executive London Committee. He co-chairs the Population Health and Inequalities Board for the NW London ICS. He also chairs the Program Board for the UK Cities Climate Investment Commission, 3Ci, which is in the vanguard of bringing funding and finance to the net zero challenge in local government. Niall is a Trustee for the Centre for Local Economic Strategies, the national “think-do” tank for fair and just economic development. He was the SOLACE spokesperson for Commissioning and Innovation from 2018 – 2020.

Prior to his role with Hounslow, he was Chief Executive of the London Borough of Sutton for eight years. Niall’s professional background is in urban planning, regeneration and environmental management and he has held a number of board level roles in local government over the last two decades leading these areas and implementing organisational change. In all of his roles he has held, he is passionate about making a difference to communities and securing social justice.

He is a graduate of Queen Mary, University of London, London Southbank University and Warwick University.

Chris Hayward
Policy Chairman
City of London Corporation
Chris is the Chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London Corporation. In his role he ...
Chris is the Chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London Corporation. In his role he speaks for the financial and professional services sector to Government and internationally.

He is a former Deputy Leader of Hertfordshire and Dorset County Councils and was first elected to Common Council of the City of London Corporation for Broad Street Ward in March 2013 and re-elected in March 2022.

He had a career as Managing Director of Companies in the Construction Aviation Infrastructure and a Global Events Management Sectors. He is now a Non-Executive Director of various companies in the commercial property and planning sectors.

Chris is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple and Chairman of the Guild of the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew.

Chris is married to Alexandra. They have two children and live near Chorleywood, Hertfordshire and in the City of London.

Chris is a member of the Carlton Club, Brooks Club and Bucks Club in London and a member of the Leander Rowing Club in Henley-on-Thames.

Pete Gladwell
Group Social Impact & Investment Director,
Legal & General
After an erstwhile life as a Youth Worker, Pete joined Legal & General in 2007, launching a new generation of ...
After an erstwhile life as a Youth Worker, Pete joined Legal & General in 2007, launching a new generation of property funds focussed on liability matching and Defined Contributions pension schemes, and L&G’s partnerships with NEST and PGGM, which total over £5bn.  In 2015, Pete moved to lead L&G’s investments with the Public Sector – including the Cabinet Office, Combined & Local Authorities, NHS, Housing Associations and Universities – which now total over £6bn.

Pete continues to lead on public sector investments, as part of a broader remit to identify and drive strategic investments and initiatives through which L&G can use its resources to benefit society. This includes L&G’s partnership with Sir Michael Marmot to address health inequality.

Pete holds an MA from Brasenose College, Oxford in Computation, the IMC, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and Honorary Professor at University College London.

Pete is heavily involved in local community projects in Harlesden, west London and a Trustee of the Fairness Foundation, the Institute of Community Studies, and the Young Foundation, which works to create a more equal and just society through social innovation.

Chris Sood-Nicholls
Managing Director, Head of Regional Development
Lloyds Bank Corporate & Institutional Banking
Chris has over 20 years’ experience in banking and financial services and has worked in client facing roles in the ...
Chris has over 20 years’ experience in banking and financial services and has worked in client facing roles in the UK, Europe and Asia. His focus has been predominantly commercial banking and corporate finance, and as an industry sector specialist he has covered the Aerospace, Defence, Transport, Leisure as well as the Business & Professional Services sectors.

Chris currently leads the Commercial Bank’s ESG Regional Development programme which is focussed on place-based, social impact investment, looking at the role of financial institutions working in places with specific regeneration challenges, delivering additional environmental and social benefit alongside commercial returns. Chris is a Master of Arts graduate in Japanese and Economics from Oxford University, and also holds an MBA.

Debbie Caldwell
Climate Commissioner
Belfast City Council
Debbie Caldwell is the Climate Commissioner for Belfast City Council. She is an experienced climate change specialist with over 20 ...
Debbie Caldwell is the Climate Commissioner for Belfast City Council. She is an experienced climate change specialist with over 20 years’ experience working in international development in countries including Bangladesh, Nigeria and Rwanda. She leads the Council’s climate work and co-chairs the Belfast Resilience and Sustainability Board and the Belfast Climate Commission.

Prior to joining the Council, Debbie led the design and delivery of climate investments in countries including Bangladesh, Nigeria and Rwanda. Debbie advised the Government of Rwanda for a number of years supporting the development of its national climate fund to help finance adaptation and mitigation investments in Rwanda including a Green City pilot project in Kigali. She also coordinated the UK Bangladesh Climate partnership Forum and led a series of scoping studies to support the design of a planned £200 million (UK funded) climate and environment programme in Bangladesh. Debbie moved to Belfast in 2018 after 17 years living and working in Africa and Asia.

Catherine McGuinness
City of London Corporation and Connected Places Catapult and Innovate UK Board Member
Duncan Sutherland
Director
Sigma Capital Group Limited
For the last 30 years, Duncan, has worked closely with many local authorities, investors and developers to enable them to ...
For the last 30 years, Duncan, has worked closely with many local authorities, investors and developers to enable them to realise large scale, long-term, partnership regeneration projects. He successfully set up Inpartnership Ltd (long term asset investment partnerships with the public sector) in 2000 which in 2013 became part of Sigma Capital. Sigma is a leader in the UK in creating sustainable communities through investing in high quality homes and places through its innovative PRS platforms.

Duncan was a Non-executive Board director of High Speed 2, appointed by the Secretary of State of Transport, from 2012 to 2018 and in October 2018 he was appointed to the Board of Homes England, the Government’s agency spearheading the accelerated delivery of housing.

Duncan previously held several other senior development roles working with local authorities, including Director of City Development in Coventry. He is Chairman of Southbank Sinfonia @ St John’s Smith Square.

Oliver Coppard
Mayor
South Yorkshire Combined Authority
Born and raised in the region, he took office as Mayor in May, elected on a platform of restoring the ...
Born and raised in the region, he took office as Mayor in May, elected on a platform of restoring the pride, purpose and prosperity of South Yorkshire. After graduating from Leeds University, Oliver began his career at Barnsley Council working on low carbon regeneration projects. Since then, he’s worked in Parliament, in the US Congress and with the charity BookTrust.  He was recently Chair of the Board at Sheffield Hallam Students’ Union and has worked a number of high-profile political campaigns, both within the region and abroad. During his first few months as Mayor, Oliver has started work delivering his manifesto pledges, building on his promise to do politics differently, and to fight for a better deal for South Yorkshire.

Graham Smith
Director ESG Financial Services
KPMG
Katherine Wright
Deputy Director, Net Zero Strategy Directorate
BEIS
Katherine Wright is Deputy Director, Net Zero Strategy Directorate in the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. She leads ...
Katherine Wright is Deputy Director, Net Zero Strategy Directorate in the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. She leads the work on local net zero – taking a place-based approach to net zero, working closely with local government.
Anna Cartwright
Managing Director Public Sector Lending
UKIB
Anna leads the UK Infrastructure Bank Local Lending and Advisory business, having joined the Bank at its inception. Born and ...
Anna leads the UK Infrastructure Bank Local Lending and Advisory business, having joined the Bank at its inception. Born and educated in Sydney, Anna started her career as an archaeologist, before starting her civil service career in the NSW Treasury in 2012. Prior to working at the Bank, Anna led the design and delivery of the Shared Rural Network at DCMS, delivering mobile coverage to rural and remote areas of the UK.
Carol Culley OBE
Deputy Chief Executive and City Treasurer
Manchester City Council
Melanie Leech CBE
Chief Executive
British Property Federation
Melanie joined the British Property Federation as Chief Executive in January 2015 having previously spent nine years as Director General ...
Melanie joined the British Property Federation as Chief Executive in January 2015 having previously spent nine years as Director General of the Food and Drink Federation.

Melanie began her working life as a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police Service and subsequently held a number of senior roles in the civil service. Her role is to champion a diverse, successful and sustainable UK real estate sector recognised for the positive economic and social benefits it delivers to communities across the country.

Melanie is a Trustee of the property industry charity LandAid and a member of the Council of the University of Essex. She was awarded a CBE in 2015 for services to the food and drink industry.

Jonathan Bray
Director
Urban Transport Group
Lucy Yu
Chief Executive Officer
Octopus Energy’s Centre for Net Zero
Lucy Yu is CEO at Octopus Energy’s Centre for Net Zero, a research unit leading pioneering research to make ...
Lucy Yu is CEO at Octopus Energy’s Centre for Net Zero, a research unit leading pioneering research to make the future energy system a reality. Lucy has nearly two decades of experience building tech ventures and developing tech policy and regulation for the UK government, European Commission, and the UN. She has led operations, commercial, policy and research functions for several high-growth, globally-renowned tech start-ups including two unicorns. Lucy has been named a Financial Times Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leader in tech (2019) and one of Diversity UK’s Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech (2021).

 

Lucy’s work has focused on sustainability and renewable energy; future mobility and the built environment; artificial intelligence; open data and open source; regulating high risk technologies; and the social impact of disruptive technology. She has written extensively on these topics for the tech press and peer-reviewed journals, and has spoken widely including for Wired and SLUSH.

 

Her previous roles include executive positions at SwiftKey (exit Microsoft); Cucumber (exit SmartBear); Five (autonomous vehicles); Voi Technology (micromobility); and policy roles at the Cabinet Office, Department for Transport, International Telecommunication Union, and the UK government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV).

She is a Non-Executive Director at the Connected Places Catapult; an Associate Fellow of Technology and Public Policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change; former tech sector representative on the City of London Transport Strategy Board; a Director at the Institute for Ethical AI and Machine Learning; and has previously served as a Non-Executive Director of Ada – the National College for Digital Skills. She is a trained scientist and holds a degree from Imperial College specialising in computational and physical chemistry.

Tolu Osekita
Associate Director I Integrated City Planning,
Arup
Agenda

What's on and when

Day 1
25th October
08:30 – 09:30
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Part I
Setting the ambition: Understanding the market and policy context for securing finance
9:30 – 9:45
Introduction to the summit and short progress report of 3Ci
9:45– 10:15
Conversation with Lord Deben
10:15 -11:00
Panel Session
11:00 – 11:30
Networking Break 
Part II
Market Opportunity Analysis: Understanding the opportunities and challenges in securing investment
11:30 - 11:45
Making the Business Case
11.45 - 12:15
Panel Discussion: Response to the Business Case
12:15 – 13:00
Panel Session: How do we develop investable projects at the scale and pace needed?
13.00 – 14:00
Networking Lunch
14:00 -15:30
Breakout Session #1
14:00 - 15:30
Breakout Session #2
15:30 – 16:00
Networking Break 
16:00 – 16:15
A national role for the City of London
16:15 – 17:00
Panel Discussion: Investment Innovations in net zero housing, commercial property and mobility
17:00 - 17:15
Summing Up
17:15
Drinks Reception
19:30
Event Close