Stella Saris Chow
ANZ
Stella Saris Chow is currently the head of sustainable finance, international for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, with responsibility across Asia, Europe and the US. Prior to this, she was an energy and infrastructure coverage banker in Asia and has spent 15 years in project finance.
Saris Chow has 20 years’ banking experience and has held structured finance and industry coverage roles in Asia, the UK and Australia.
Saris Chow is co-chair of the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association Green and Sustainable Loan Committee, as well as a member of the GFANZ South East Asia Public Policy Working Group and other groups.
Colin Chen
MUFG
Colin Chen has built Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s sustainable finance business in the region as the head of ESG finance, APAC. He is also the chair of the OECD’s Asia Working Group on Business and Sustainability.
Chen joined MUFG in 2000 and has been involved in structured finance for over 30 years. Prior to his current role, he was MUFG’s head of structured finance, Asian investment banking division.
Prior to MUFG, Chen held senior positions at Morgan Grenfell, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and DBS Bank with assignments in London, New York and Singapore.
Atul Jhavar
Barclays
Atul Jhavar is co-head of the sustainable banking group, Asia Pacific at Barclays. He also leads the firm’s capital markets financing business in South-East Asia, covering debt capital markets, leveraged & acquisition finance and private credit.
Jhavar has 20 years of experience in the Asian capital markets and has spent most of his career in Singapore and Hong Kong, leading numerous financing transactions for sovereigns, banks, and corporates, including green bonds, green project finance, and sustainability-linked debt.
Martijn Hoogerwerf
ING
Martijn Hoogerwerf is head of sustainable finance APAC at ING. Based in Singapore, Hoogerwerf joined ING’s sustainable finance team in 2019 with over 10 years of experience in the sustainable finance markets.
Hoogerwerf spent over eight years in structured finance and strategy roles at Fortis/ABN Amro and focused on expanding its wholesale banking activities in Asia. He moved to Hong Kong in 2006 as part of his tenure with Fortis.
He is chairman of ING’s APAC sustainable finance forum, a member of ING’s sustainable finance management team and sustainable finance quality board.
Prakash Chakravarti
LSEG LPC (moderator)
Prakash Chakravarti is Asia Pacific bureau chief for Loan Pricing Corp based in Singapore and has more than 20 years’ experience in Asian capital finance markets. He has written extensively on corporate loans, M&A and leveraged buyout financings, bonds and equity fundraisings.
Prakash joined IFR Asia in 2002. He leads and manages a team of journalists at LSEG LPC in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo that covers Asian syndicated loans and leveraged finance.
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