Global: Climate Bonds CONNECT 2026

Sean Kidney

CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilise global capital for climate action. He oversees green bond development programs on six continents; green taxonomy development by governments ranging from the European Commission to Thailand & Colombia; and policy development for capital mobilisation. Sean is also a Professor in Practice at SOAS University of London and an expert advisor to governments around the world. In 2024 Sean joined the GF60 International Expert Advisory Group for Shanghai Green Finance Hub Policy Research.

Martin Berg

CEO, Climate Asset Management

Martin has over 20 years' experience in climate and environmental investment, with a particular focus on natural capital and carbon finance. He is CEO of Climate Asset Management, a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination, a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm. Climate Asset Management offers scalable investment opportunities in natural capital, focusing on activities that preserve, protect, and enhance nature, reduce carbon emissions, and address climate change while delivering risk-adjusted returns to institutional and corporate investors. Climate Asset Management's Natural Capital Strategy allows institutional investors to target returns and impacts through real asset investments in developed markets and its Nature Based Carbon Fund helps corporates to directly invest in nature-based carbon projects in emerging markets. Martin leads the strategic vision, operations, and growth of the company, which has raised over $1bn million across two investment strategies from both institutional and corporate investors. 

Luisina Berberian

Director, Sustainable Finance, S&P Global Ratings

Luisina Berberian is a Director of the Sustainable Finance group of S&P Global Ratings, based in Madrid. In her role, Luisina leads a team of analysts to deliver Second Party Opinions to corporates and financial sector clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Additionally, Luisina’s role involves market education, producing research and event presentation for different sectors and countries in the region. Luisina’s experience at S&P Global also includes seven years in Infrastructure Finance Ratings; the analytical group which covers utilities, project finance and transportation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

Barbara Oldani

Lead of Sustainable Sovereign Debt Hub, SSDH, NatureFinance

Barbara is the Sustainability-Linked Sovereign Debt Hub Lead on Stakeholders' Engagement at NatureFinance. 
Before joining NatureFinance, Barbara launched and served as Director of the Sovereign Decarbonization Program and the Labelled Bonds Campaign at the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance. Barbara is a former investment banker, having held London-based roles focused on fixed income structured products, high yield and emerging markets at Salomon Brothers, Citibank, and Unicredit, as well as having led bank-wide regulatory and strategic projects focused on governance and transformational change at Natwest Markets. Barbara holds a BSc and MSc in Economics and Social Sciences (DES) from Bocconi University in Milan, and a CFA ESG Investing Certificate.

Alex Kennedy

Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Finance, Adaptation & Resilience, Standard Chartered

Monika Sabolova

Product Owner, ICE Climate Data & Analytics

Hideki Takada

Director, GX Acceleration Agency

Mr. Takada has been working as a government official for the Ministry of Finance (MOF) since 1995. He has had a wide range of experience in policy-making at the heart of the government including public finance, tax, trade policies and financial services. During over 20 years of his career he spent 5 years in the UK: study at Cambridge and LSE (1997-99), and secondment to HM Treasury (the UK finance ministry, 2003-06) where he worked on financial regulation, investment market policies and public spending. 

In 2009, Mr. Takada became the first staff of the newly created National Policy Unit and worked in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Cabinet Secretariat as an architect of the new public finance framework and as a private advisor to the Prime Minister. After having held senior positions in the Finance Minister’s Secretariat responsible for policy coordination and public relations of the Ministry, he was seconded to the OECD, Paris, where he served as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Green Finance and Investment team, Environment Directorate, from 2015 to 2018. 

After his return to Tokyo in 2018, Mr. Takada worked at several offices in the MOF and other parts of the government including the Climate Change Office at the Cabinet Secretariat (2021). From 2022, Mr. Takada served as the Director for Strategy Development at the Financial Services Agency, responsible for financial market policies including promotion of international financial centres and sustainable finance.

From June 2024, Mr. Takada has been seconded to the GX (Green Transformation) Acceleration Agency as its Director. The GX Acceleration Agency is newly launched by the Japanese Government in July 2024 to accelerate decarbonisation and green transformation in Japan and beyond.

Alongside his official jobs, in his private capacity, Mr. Takada launched the Green Finance Network Japan (GFNJ) in 2018 as its Secretary General. The GFNJ is an informal network that brings together key players on green finance in Japan from both public and private sectors and provides a platform for collaborating with international stakeholders. 

Mr. Takada received a Bachelor degree in Law (University of Tokyo), a Master degree in Law (Cambridge University) and an MBA (Imperial College London).