Debapratim De (Debo) is Director, Economic Research at Deloitte. He advises clients and shapes the firm’s thinking on macroeconomics and financial markets, and also comments on economic developments in the media.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Debo was a researcher in cryptography and applied mathematics at Microsoft.

He was educated at BITS Pilani in India and at the London School of Economics.

Elizabeth Ellicott is a Research Manager at Diligent Market Intelligence (formerly known as Insightia and, before that, Activist and Proxy Insight), a data services and news provider focused on shareholder engagement, investor voting, governance, and stewardship issues. In her 8 years at the company Elizabeth has primarily focused on researching and analysing shareholder activism globally, with the goal of providing data for clients and the financial press.

Caroline leads Railpen’s investment stewardship work globally across £35bn of assets under management.

She was previously in charge of the investment, stewardship and collective engagement programme at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA). Prior to this, she was Head of Public Policy at the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and a Senior Policy Adviser at PIMFA (then APFA), having started her career in fixed income research.

She is Co-founder and Chair of the UK-focused Governance for Growth Investor Campaign (GGIC), the $4.5tn Investor Coalition for Equal Votes (ICEV) and the $2.5tn Workforce Directors Coalition (WDC) and a fully accredited professional pension trustee at the Standard Life Master Trust – where she is also Chair of its Investment Committee. She has won various industry awards, including as “ESG Investment Woman of the Year” and “Investment Woman of the Year” and was picked as one of Financial News’ “Top 50 most influential in European Sustainable Finance” and “Top 25 Rising Stars of Asset Management in Europe”.

In her spare time, she is a Board Director of the Social Market Foundation (SMF), a cross-party think-tank, and also sits on the ICGN’s Global Policy Committee.

Jen is the CEO of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN).

Led by investors with AUM of over $US 100 trillion, ICGN aims to strengthen markets and create long term value through effective corporate governance policy and practice. Jen represents ICGN on the Japanese Financial Services Agency’s Council of Experts and on the IFIAR stakeholder working group and the PCAOB IAG.

Jen joined ICGN from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she was EMEA Head of Stewardship, driving engagement, proxy voting and industry collaboration efforts. In that role, Jen was a member of the Investment Association Company Reporting and Auditing Group and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Investor Advisory Committee. In 2022 Jen was also a member of the US Council of Institutional Investors Corporate Governance Advisory Council.

Previously, Jen was Deputy Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs at the UK Financial Reporting Council, responsible for coordinating outreach with the global investment community, listed company leadership teams and board members across all areas of the regulator’s scope. Jen led policy outreach on ESG, audit and reporting matters including the creation of the 2020 UK Stewardship Code and the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code.

Jen started her career at PwC.

Jen holds a BA in Business, Accounting and Finance from the University of Newcastle and a Masters in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge.

Peter Swabey is Policy & Research Director at The Chartered Governance Institute. He is responsible for developing the profile of the Institute to members, regulators, policymakers, employers and other stakeholders by delivering thought leadership and lobbying campaigns aligned to The Institutes strategy and promoting strong governance as the vital ingredient for success in organisations.

Peter has 30 years’ experience of the share registration industry, gained at Lloyds TSB Registrars and subsequently Equiniti and Equiniti David Venus amongst others. He is a member of the CBI Companies Committee, the QCA Corporate Governance Expert Group and the Shareholder Voting Working Group, as well as being an Alternate Member of the Takeover Panel and a past chairman of the The Chartered Governance Institute Registrars Group.

Sarah Wilson is the founder and CEO of Minerva Analytics, the UK’s independent ESG research and proxy voting agency. Over the past 30 years Sarah has been closely involved in the development of innovation in the independent research industry, including the creation of the first electronic proxy voting message standards and the development of Europe’s premier database of objective governance profiles of 95% of the worlds companies by value. Minerva’s research and data are widely used by global regulators, asset owners, asset managers and academics to support their investigation into the impact of ESG developments.