Careers in Sustainable Finance

Join us for an enlightening evening all about careers in sustainable finance! Gain insights from some of the industry’s leading experts, connect with other young professionals, and learn all about the future of a burgeoning industry.

Sustainable finance offers the potential to make a substantial, positive change to the world through, for example, supporting investment in renewable energy, encouraging companies to reduce pollution and waste, promoting diversity and inclusion, and tackling poverty.

For undergraduate and post-graduate students, and early career financial and sustainability professionals – it’s not always obvious about how they might get started in and then build a career in sustainable finance.

This event aims to explore how you might build a career in sustainable finance. In discussion with a panel of sustainable finance professionals, we will look at questions such as:

• Is sustainable finance the right career for you?
• What qualifications, skills and attributes are needed to work in sustainable finance?
• What experience do employers look for?
• What sort of roles are available?

Dr Rory Sullivan is CEO of Chronos Sustainability, Visiting Professor in Practice at London School of Economics (LSE), and Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Rory is an internationally recognised expert on responsible investment, having supported many of the world’s leading asset owners and asset managers to develop and implement their responsible investment strategies. Amongst others, he has played a leading role in the development and delivery of the Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) Net Zero Company Benchmark, the Global Investor Statement on Responsible Climate Lobbying, the Transition Pathway Initiative's management quality framework and various sector assessment frameworks, the Chapter Zero Transition Planning Toolkit and the Investor Climate Action Programme Expectations Ladder and associated guidance.

He is the author/editor of eleven books and of many papers and reports on responsible investment, climate change and related issues. His books include Responsible Investment and Fixed Income Markets (editor with Joshua Kendall, Routledge, 2023) and Climate Change and the Governance of Corporations (with Andy Gouldson, Routledge, 2021).

Emma Jane Joyce leads on Sustainability and Climate Action for the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) and is responsible for the development and implementation of the Agency’s Climate Action Strategy. Prior to this she was Head of Responsible Investment and Investment Director with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF). She represents the NTMA on number of domestic and international sustainability forums.

Laura trained in Arthur Andersen and KPMG and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Tax Adviser with deep experience in the renewable energy sector. In 2017 she pivoted her career to focus on the emerging area of sustainable finance and ESG. Since then, Laura has established a reputation as one of Ireland’s foremost experts in sustainable finance, lecturing and advising on various topics across banking, investment and insurance. She has advised clients across real estate and construction, insurance, health insurance, financial services and private markets’ investors on various aspects of corporate sustainability and sustainable finance, including strategy development and implementation, the EU Taxonomy, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Ireland