Clmt Bnds Adv Panel recruits: Morgan Stanley’s Ahmad + muni bond leader Bianco + IETA's Derwent + climate lawyer Hobley join (London, Houston, Geneva, Sydney)

We welcome four new members of Climate Bonds Advisory Panel, working to develop green debt capital markets:

Imtiaz Ahmad , Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Bank. Imtiaz was responsible for establishing the Morgan Stanley’s carbon trading and projects business; he is currently working on climate finance initiatives. He Imtiaz is a director of the International Emission Trading Association and a member of the UK Government’s Capital Markets for Climate Initiative.

Jonathan C. Bianco, Managing Director, Catalyst Capital Investors. Jon is a Houston-based investment banker specializing in alternative energy and environmental services. He is a former MD of Coastal Securities and President of Aurora Financial Services. He has 17 years experience in the US bond and equity markets, in particular with municipal bonds.

Henry Derwent, CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). Henry was previously the international climate change Director for the UK Government, overseeing the UK’s role in the international negotiations, in the G8 (especially as Prime Minister’s special representative during the UK G8 Presidency in 2005) and in other forums. He previously had responsibilities for all aspects of climate change and sustainable energy in the UK as well as air quality and industrial pollution control. In an earlier life he was a corporate finance executive at a major investment bank.

Anthony Hobley, Norton Rose global head of climate change and carbon finance. Based in Sydney, Anthony specializes in climate change and clean energy law as well as UK, EU and international environmental law. He is a frequently published author on climate change and carbon trading and speaks on those topics at conferences around the world. He was previously legal counsel at Climate Change Capital.

Check out the Bloomberg wire story on this in the San Francisco Chronicle.