Speakers
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Hugh Wheelan Hugh Wheelan, Co-Founder and Joint Managing Director, Responsible Investor
A media entrepreneur, Hugh co-created Response Global Media in 2007 and has built the company to become one of the world’s most respected sustainable finance media and events companies. As a journalist, he has written extensively on investment, corporate and sustainability issues for international newspapers including The Guardian and The Financial Times.
He has interviewed some of the biggest names in global institutional finance and sustainability.
Hugh has won many journalism awards during his career. In 2020, he won the Outstanding Contribution to Institutional Journalism at the State Street Press Awards. He won the respected Aon Consulting award for European Pensions and Investment Journalist of the Year in 2006.
From 2004 to 2007 he was Paris Correspondent and before that Fund Management Editor at Financial News, part of the Wall Street Journal.
Prior to that he was Political and Economic advisor to the Secretary General of Amnesty International.
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Hon Group Captain Sally Bridgeland Hon Group Captain Sally Bridgeland, Non-executive Director, Adviser and Trustee
Investment consultant, actuary, and former CEO of the BP Pension Fund now enjoying a portfolio of advisory and commercial, professional, and NFP non-executive appointments.
Sally is Chair at Impax Asset Management Group plc, is a non-executive director at insurers Royal London and Pension Insurance Corporation, and at Local Pensions Partnership (LPP) Limited, where she chairs its regulated investment company.
Her non-executive portfolio has included roles at the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension schemes. She was CEO of the BP Pension Scheme in the interesting years of 2007-14 after twenty years with Aon Hewitt working as a pensions consultant and in investment research and innovation.
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Dr Rachel Melsom Dr Rachel Melsom, Founder Medical Matrix Consulting
Dr Rachel Melsom, MBBS, is the Founder of Medical Matrix Consulting Ltd, and focusses on aiding and enhancing investors understanding of both the positive and negative health impacts of their investments, and highlighting areas for review to aid alignment of their funds with desired positive health outcomes, in addition to continuing to meet their financial objectives.
This is achieved through re-framing financial objectives utilising innovative thinking, aiding review of existing thought processes, frameworks and norms to deliver the required outcomes, and hence effect measurable change.
Rachel is also a practicing NHS doctor with an interest in the Care of Older Persons.
