Maya Hennerkes, Associate Director, ESG Sector Lead for Financial Intermediaries, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Maya Hennerkes leads the ESG work of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with financial institutions and private equity funds. She promotes the integration of environmental and social risks and opportunities including climate change in investment decisions and investment management.

Maya designs and supervises environmental and social risk management and safeguard frameworks for a portfolio of EUR 3.3bn new approvals per year. She also runs EBRD's ESG training programme for financial institutions and private equity funds.

Maya is a sustainable finance expert with over 15 years of experience, with previous positions at the Inter-American Development Bank Group in Washington DC and Bloomberg L.P. in London. She is a member of the Club of Rome's Think Tank 30 and serves on the Advisory Board of SustainableFinance.

Maya studied economics, political science and Latin America studies in Germany and Spain and holds an Executive master's in Public Management from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.