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Explore innovative strategies for sustainable investment and climate action with Mark Carney, speaker and UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.
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Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, was the first non-Briton to hold this position since the bank's establishment in 1694. He is currently the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance and chairs Brookfield Asset Management, overseeing Transition Investing and ESG strategy. Mark also serves as President of Chatham House and chairs the board of directors at Bloomberg.
Mark began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent thirteen years in senior roles across Sovereign Risk, Emerging Debt Capital Markets, and Investment Banking. He played a key role during the Russian financial crisis and later managed the sale of the Canadian government's stake in Petro-Canada.
In 2008, Mark became Governor of the Bank of Canada, the youngest Central Bank Governor among G20 nations. His actions during the global financial crisis, including cutting the overnight rate and maintaining low interest rates, helped protect Canada from severe economic impacts. Time Magazine recognised him as one of the "Most Influential 100" for his intellect and leadership.
As Governor of the Bank of England, Mark sought to modernise the institution. He restructured the senior hierarchy, introduced a Term Funding Scheme to support bank lending, and implemented measures to control borrowing beyond interest rates. His 'forward guidance' policy clarified interest rate expectations for businesses and consumers. He was the first Central Bank Governor to prioritise environmental issues, developing stress tests for banks' climate risk. Following the Brexit referendum, he advocated for immediate interest rate cuts to stabilise markets and reduced borrowing costs during the COVID-19 crisis.
In his current role as UN Special Envoy, Mark focuses on achieving net zero emissions, advocating for a $50 trillion investment over the next decade, technological innovation, and new governance frameworks. He views climate challenges as opportunities and explores values-based leadership in his book, "Values: Building a Better World for All". As co-president of Chatham House, he addresses these issues within geopolitical and economic contexts.
Book Mark Carney to inspire your team with insights on leadership, climate action, and financial resilience. His unique blend of experience as a central banker and UN envoy offers invaluable perspectives on navigating today's challenges. Engage with a visionary who transforms crises into opportunities for sustainable growth.
Topics, Sessions And Talks
Drawing on his 13 year of experience as G7 central bank governor with a unique perspective on the accelerating sustainable and digital re-wirings of our economies, Mark Carney offers his outlook for near term policies and long-term prosperity in the global economy.
In this session, Mark Carney shares his unique insights into global and domestic monetary policy and economic trends. He explains how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and have gone from market economies to market societies, contributing to the modern-day crises of credit, COVID-19, and climate change. Mark provides leaders, companies, and countries with tangible action plans to transform the value of the market back into the value of humanity.
Taking audiences back to the financial crisis of 2008, the worst financial crisis to affect the world since the Great Depression, Mark Carney argues that a deeper crisis in our values that created ethically fragile markets was the real culprit of 2008. Mark shares his findings on how times have changed and how we can continue to make progress into a safer, simpler, and fairer financial system that can withstand risks we don’t anticipate.
In this session, Mark Carney shares a bold, urgent argument on the misplacement of value in financial markets and how we can and need to maximise value for the many, not the few. In this speech, he answers the questions: "What is value?", "How does the way we assess value both shape our values and constrain our choices?" And "How do the valuations of markets affect the values of our society?".
In this session, Mark Carney focuses on climate change, arguing that the roots of our environmental emergency lie in a deeper crisis of values. Mark observes how individual creativity and market dynamism can be channelled to achieve broader social goals, including inclusive growth and environmental sustainability. He discusses how the financial sector can consider the physical, liability, and transition risks that climate change poses for our current system while sharing what might be done to mitigate them.
In this session, Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor and UN Special Envoy, shares his insights on addressing the Global Financial Crisis, Health Crisis, Climate Change, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He draws insights from his book "Values" to highlight the importance of redefining market values to place humanity at the forefront.
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