Pictet Asset Management invite you to register for a webcast with Farah Imrana Hussain of The World Bank. The World Bank plays a leadership role in promoting and financing sustainable development. Alongside Farah will be our own Head of EMD, Mary-Therese Barton, explaining why ESG matters in EMD and how effective ESG integration can be achieved.
Investors with allocations to emerging market debt now need to understand the true impact on developing economies of long run factors like climate change and human capital development. Taking a sustainable approach to growth and issuing related bonds, emerging economies can fundamentally change their prospects for the better. It has the potential to be revolutionary for emerging markets and exhilarating for those of us who invest in them.
Register for the webcast in which you will hear from Farah Imrana Hussain of The World Bank. The World Bank plays a leadership role in promoting and financing sustainable development. Its triple-A rated innovative bond issuance program has catalysed sustainable capital markets across the world. Farah leads the World Bank Treasury’s sustainable finance advisory program for emerging markets. Farah and her team have played an important role in kickstarting emerging market sovereign green bond issuance.
Farah Hussain is a senior financial officer at the World Bank Treasury based in Washington DC. As Treasury Regional Coordinator for the East Asia and Pacific region, she leads the design and implementation of financial solutions to help clients to help clients: (1) access financing for development by mobilising World Bank Group resources and private sector financing; (2) mitigate the impact of financial, natural disaster and commodity risks by facilitating access to market-based risk management tools; and (3) strengthen capacity to implement efficient risk management strategies by providing advisory services.
Hussain specialises in sustainable financing, including green, social and sustainable bonds. She provides technical assistance to countries to develop local green and sustainable bond markets, including developing policy frameworks, identifying eligible projects, developing impact reports, and supporting capacity building among key stakeholders as part of the World Bank Group’s efforts to promote sustainable investment solutions. Her technical assistance engagements in Malaysia, Fiji, and Indonesia resulted in the issuance of the first green “sukuk” in the world; first sovereign green bond by an emerging market; first corporate green bond in Indonesia; the development of the ASEAN green bond guidelines and Indonesian green bond regulations. She was awarded the World Bank Group President’s award and the East Asia Vice Presidency award for her work on the green sukuk. Her green bond projects in Malaysia, Fiji and Indonesia have won a number of highly prestigious international awards. Hussain is one of the authors of the World Bank Guide on Green Bond Proceeds Management & Reporting for Public Sector Issuers.
Before joining the World Bank Treasury, she worked for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group that provides guarantees to attract investors and private insurers into the world’s poorest countries and fragile and conflict-affected environments. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Hussain worked for BNP Paribas and ING Barings, investment banks in London.
Mary-Therese Barton joined Pictet Asset Management in 2004 and is the Head of Emerging Debt.
Before taking up her current position in 2018, she was a Senior Investment Manager in the team. Mary-Therese joined as an Emerging Debt Analyst.
Prior to joining Pictet she worked at Dun & Bradstreet, where she was an economist responsible for analysing European countries.
Mary-Therese graduated with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford. She also holds an MSc with distinction in Development Finance from the Centre for Financial Management Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), part of the University of London.
Mary-Therese is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
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