Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance

CYRIL SHMATOV, PHD is Head of Enterprise Stress Testing (Managing Director) at Citigroup and Adjunct Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. An area of particular interest for Cyril is ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) Finance, including the management of financial risks associated with Climate Change and the quantitative analysis techniques that make such management possible. Cyril's recent research focuses on leveraging alternative data for Climate Risk quantification and management, including its practical aspects from a financial institution's perspective. Cyril holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University. CINO ROBIN CASTELLI is Director at Citi, Business Unit Manager for Enterprise Risk Management, the area that covers, amongst other topics, Climate Risk. Prior to this position, Robin was the Chief Strategy Officer for Quantitative Risk and Stress Testing, the division of Risk tasked with developing all the quantitative models used for Market Risk, Counterparty Risk, Credit and Obligor Risk Analytics, Risk Capital Analytics, and Stress Testing. Robin is also co-founder and former Executive VP for Business Development at MacroUSA, in the field of Unmanned Ground Vehicles, and prior to that, co-founder, CEO and president of Macroswiss SA. Robin holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Molecular Biology, summa cum laude, from Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, with an evolutionary biology thesis on "Chromosomal rearrangements as speciation mechanisms."