Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Public Hearing Sustainable finance 26 May 2021 16h45 to 18h45 Via video conference / Meeting room: Antall 6Q2 Brussels

SPEAKERS

Clemens Fuest President of the ifo Institute

Professor for Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES)

Executive Director of CESifo

(© ifo Institut – Romy Vinogradova)

Professor Clemens Fuest, born in 1968, is President of the ifo Institute, Professor for Economics and Public Finance at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) and Executive Director of CESifo GmbH. 1

Clemens Fuest has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Fed-eral Ministry of Finance since 2003 (head of the board from 2007 to 2010), a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Clemens Fuest is also a Board Member of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF; President since August 2018). Further-more he belongs to the German-French Council of Economic Experts, the European Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Advisory Board of Ernst & Young GmbH. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft (Kron-berger Kreis) and the Stiftung Familienunternehmen. In 2013, he was awarded the Gustav Stolper Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Association for Social Policy), in 2019 the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize for the year 2018. In 2017 he received an honor-ary doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research areas are economic and financial policy, international taxation, tax policy, and European inte- gration.

His research areas are economic and fiscal policy, taxation and European integration. Before being appointed ifo President in April 2016, Clemens Fuest was President of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and Professor of Eco-nomics at the . From 2008 to 2013 he was Professor of Business Taxation and Research Director of the Centre for Business Taxation at the . He taught as a Visiting Professor at the Bocconi University in Milan in 2004. From 2001 to 2008 he was Professor for Public Economics at the .

Clemens Fuest has published widely in German and international academic journals including the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of International Economics and International Economic Review. He has published a number of books and regularly contributes to public debates on eco-nomic and fiscal policy with articles in renowned newspapers including Handelsblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wirtschaftswoche, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Le Monde.

Simone Utermarck Director, Sustainable Finance at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance.

Simone Utermarck is a Director, Sustainable Finance at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) based in London. She is part of the secretariat that manages the Principles, secretary to the GBP SBP Advisory Council the ICMA Sustainable Finance Committee (SFC) and the Global Sustainable Finance Council (GSFC), and otherwise involved in all of ICMA’s sustainable finance activities. Simone is also a member of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (SG4). She is a trained banker with extensive international experience having lived and worked in Europe, the United States, Asia and the GCC. Her previous roles were with Thomson Reuters, S&P Global Ratings, Bloomberg, PwC, Ernst & Young, DaimlerChrysler Global Capital Services.

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Sandrine Dixson-Declève Co-President of the Club of Rome and Member of the Platform on Sustainable Finance

She is currently the Co-President of the Club of Rome and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating change in business and policy models and advisory work. She holds several advisory positions for the European Commission: Chair, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR); Assembly Member, Climate Mitigation & Adaptation Mission (DGR&I); Former member of Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance and current member of Platform on Sustainable Finance; United Nations: Food Summit Action Track 5 Resilience, She sits on the Boards companies/organisations/institutes such as BMW, EDP, UCB, Climate KIC, UCL-Bartlett School of Environment and the IEEP. Sandrine is also a Senior Associate and faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), Ambassador, for the Energy Transition Commission (ETC) and WEALL. She co-founded the Women Enablers Change Agent Network (WECAN) and has been recognised by GreenBiz as one of the 30 most influential women across the globe driving change in the low carbon economy and promoting green business.

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