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Join us for the latest discussion from our Greater China Series, sponsored by Barclays Private Bank.

We will discuss how HNW clients and Family Offices in Asia are adopting ESG & Sustainable Investment into their wealth management strategies.

We will be joined live on Zoom by an expert panel, moderated by:

Martin Hill - Director, Barclays Private Bank, London. Martin joined Barclays Private Bank in 2017 as a Director having spent nearly 13 years with HSBC. He is based in London and has a focus on UHNW clients in Asia. He has experience in a variety of Private Banking and Wealth Management roles in Asia, Africa and the UK.

We are delighted to be joined by the panelists below:

Rebecca Booth - Client Director, Carey, Guernsey. Rebecca is a professional governance advisor, who over the past 16 years has worked with corporate boards worldwide to apply best practice and in 2019 was awarded by The Governance Institute, Governance Professional of the Year. She is Client Director at Guernsey based administration firm Carey and advises companies and funds on establishing in or migrating to Guernsey and as well as assisting with consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.

Rebecca has a Masters Degree in Corporate Governance, has presented her research to academic peers at the International Corporate Governance Society conference in Italy and the British Academy of Management in the United Kingdom and has published peer-reviewed academic works. She holds board positions, is a business leader for the Sustainable Finance Network and a member of the Guernsey Green Finance working group as well as a committee member of the Guernsey Arts Commission.

Kate Hodson - Partner & Head of ESG Funds, Ogier, Hong Kong. Kate is a Partner in Ogier's Investment Funds practice in Hong Kong and Head of ESG Funds. She specialises in the formation and structuring of investment funds, advising on ongoing fund operation (including regulatory compliance) and LP advisory services, as well as downstream corporate advisory work.

Kate's experience covers a broad range of strategies and industries, including impact funds and sustainable investment funds, hedge funds, real estate, credit funds, venture capital and infrastructure funds. She has been named one of Asia's Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 by Asia Legal Business (in both 2016 and 2019) and has been advising clients in Asia for over 10 years. Having recently received her Masters in Energy and Environmental Law from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she launched Ogier's Sustainable Investing and Impact Funds practice, the first of its kind amongst the offshore law firms.

Kate is a member of Ogier's internal environmental working group, a member of the leadership group for Ogier's D&I initiative and also a director of WWF HK and a member of its finance committee.

Mike Topley - Head of Sustainable Portfolio Management, Barclays Private Bank, London. Mike joined Barclays Private Bank in 2010, where he heads up their Sustainable strategies on behalf of institutional charities, not-for-profit and private clients. He is also a senior member of the global equity team, who are responsible for selecting the direct equities that go into all discretionary portfolios within the Private Bank. Mike was a key architect of the Private Bank's ESG framework, which is used to assess the risks and opportunities presented to companies from environmental, social and governance factors.

Mike holds a BA(Hons) in Accounting & Finance from Durham University, an MSc in Investment Management from Cass Business School, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments (MCSI).

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