EMIA Notes - November 07, 2022
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1. Central Bank of Brazil (BCB)’s Lead in Mainstreaming Sustainability in Brazil’s Financial Sector (Financials Program Webinar) Tuesday, November 8, 10 am EST / 12 pm Brazil / 3 pm GMT
2. Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: IMF Authors Discuss Lessons Learned (Debt & Fiscal Governance Program Webinar) Thursday, November 10, 9 am EDT / 2 pm GMT
3. Measuring Economic and Social Rights without Income Bias: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (Health, Education and Human Rights Program Webinar) Tuesday, November 29, 12 pm EST / 5 pm GMT
4. Net Zero Targets in EM: Coverage, Quality, Integrity (Extractive Industries Program Webinar) Thursday, December 1, 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
5. Semiconductors’ Inflection Point (TMT Program Webinar) Friday, December 6, 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
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Job & Volunteer Opportunities
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1. REGISTER NOW: EMIA’s 6th Annual ESG Engagement Conference(New York / Virtual: November 17–18, 2022)
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Join top investors, ESG experts, and emerging market issuers for the longest-running conference dedicated to ESG issues in emerging markets.
November 17 (In-person in New York & Virtual): Presentations by ESG policy experts, issuers, and investors on corporate and sovereign ESG themes critical to investor engagement on best practices.
November 18 (Virtual Only): Small group meetings with sovereign and corporate issuers to discuss ESG issues. Presentations from leading ESG experts.
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November
08
10:00 am EST
3:00 pm GMT
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1. Central Bank of Brazil’s Lead in Mainstreaming Sustainability in Brazil’s Financial Sector Financials Program Webinar Tuesday, November 8, 10 am EST / 12 pm Brazil / 3 pm GMT
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EMIA is honored to host the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB). BCB representatives Claudio Filgueiras, David Valente and Viviane Torinelli will discuss the recently-introduced sustainability/ESG regulations for the financial sector, highlighting rural credit regulations, and elaborating on Brazil’s international role.
The webinar will also explore the future of TCFD guidelines in Brazil, application of rural regulations in the Amazon and what it means for Brazil to be on the Steering Committee of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).
Speakers:
Claudio Filgueiras, Department of Regulation, Supervision and Control of Farm Credit Operations, BCB
David Valente, Financial System Regulation Department, BCB
Viviane Torinelli, International Investor Relations Department, BCB
Amanda Gray, Executive Fellow & EMIA’s Co-Director of the Financial Institutions Program (moderator)
The webinar is open to financial professionals, issuers, and EMIA partners only.
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November
10
9:00 am EDT
2:00 pm GMT
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2. Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: IMF Authors Discuss Lessons LearnedDebt & Fiscal Governance Program Webinar
Thursday, November 10, 9 am EDT / 2 pm GMT
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Governance is a critical issue across emerging markets. Join IMF authors of the recently published Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Opportunities and Lessons to explore key governance challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa today.
Speakers:
Monique Newiak, IMF Resident Representative for Sierra Leone, recently senior economist for Nigeria, and Editor, Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Opportunities and Lessons
Abdoul Aziz Wane, Director of the IMF’s Africa Training Institute, and Editor, Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa, Opportunities and Lessons
Vimal Thakoor, Staff member of the IMF’s Africa Training Institute, and economist in the Fiscal Affairs, African, and Strategy and Policy Review departments
Sebastiaan Pompe, Senior Counsel, IMF’s Legal Department
Arina Viseth, Economist on the Togo desk in the IMF’s African department, also recently covering Niger, Madagascar, South Sudan, Seychelles, and Uganda.
Dominique Simard, Senior economist on the Mozambique desk in the IMF’s African Department, also with experience in West Africa, the Americas, Central Asia, and the Middle East.
Alice French, Financial Sector Expert at the IMF, focusing on issues of macro-critical corruption, money laundering, and illicit financial flows.
Kevin Daly, Portfolio Manager, Emerging Market Debt, abrdn
Roger Scher, Head, Public Sector Programs & Director of the Sovereign Debt and Fiscal Governance Program, EMIA (moderator)
The webinar is open to financial professionals, issuers, and EMIA partners only.
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November
29
12:00 pm EST
5:00 pm GMT
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3. Measuring Economic and Social Rights Without Income Bias: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative Health, Education and Human Rights Program Webinar Tuesday, November 29, 12 pm EST / 5 pm GMT
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How can investors measure social and economic rights and find best practices without falling into the trap of income bias when engaging sovereign issuers?
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) produces an annual income-adjusted Quality of Life index with detailed information about economic and social rights per country. They have also recently collaborated with the World Bank on research to explore a use-case of HRMI’s economic and social rights dataset. i.e. using the data to tilt the JPM Emerging Market Bond Index.
An analysis by the World Bank shows an 85% correlation between the S pillar of most currently available sovereign ESG scores and a country’s national income. According to a JPM survey, this income bias is the most dominant primary concern about sovereign ESG investing.
EMIA will host a webinar to help investors understand and use the income-adjusted index. It can serve as a basis for engaging sovereign issuers at an adequate level when it comes to social and economic rights.
Speakers:
Anne-Marie Brook: Co-founder of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a collaborative venture between human rights practitioners, researchers, and academics that produces a database of metrics about human rights performance around the world
Dr Susan Randolph: Co-founder of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative
Uwe Schillhorn: Director of the Sovereign Social Program, EMIA (moderator)
The webinar is open to emerging markets financial professionals only.
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December
01
10:00 am EST
3:00 pm GMT
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4. Net Zero Targets in EM: Coverage, Quality, Integrity Extractive Industries Program Webinar
Thursday, December 1, 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
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Net zero targets are steadily becoming a norm for companies and countries in developed markets, and this trend is spreading into emerging ones. Yet, investors will be wise to ask: What is behind these lofty claims? Can we rely on them? Are there achievable plans behind the targets? What are the criteria investors should use to assess them and separate genuine progress from greenwashing?
We have invited John Lang from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit to speak about these and other questions. He runs the Net Zero Tracker on behalf of four international organizations including Oxford Net Zero. The Net Zero Tracker is a global resource for collating, assessing and presenting the scale and quality of net zero pledges across nationals, regions, cities and publicly listed companies. John specializes in visually explaining climate science and policy to the public. Earlier this year he explained two of the latest IPCC reports: the science of climate change and how we stop it.
At the webinar, John will introduce the tools the Net Zero Tracker offers to investors, review the situation with net zero targets in developing countries and companies, and talk about the indicators of quality in assessing these targets by investors.
The event will be moderated by Pavel Laberko, Director of the Extractive Industries Program, EMIA.
The webinar is open to financial professionals, issuers, and EMIA partners only.
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December
06
10:00 am EST
3:00 pm GMT
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5. Semiconductors’ Inflection Point TMT Program Webinar
Friday, December 6, 10 am EST / 3 pm GMT
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Investors need to understand the critical ESG information in the ICT industry to accurately manage risk and support best practice adoption.
Udit Gupta, PhD, incoming Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell Tech of Cornell University will share how investors can:
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- Assess the publicly-sourced material published by technology companies
- Understand and compare carbon and carbon equivalents intensity at different stages of the technology cycle
- Examine what ESG means for the ICT industry
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Udit Gupta’s research lies at the intersection of sustainable computing, computer architecture, and systems for machine learning. His research focuses on discovering and demonstrating new ways to design systems and hardware to improve the performance, efficiency, and environmental sustainability of next-generation computing platforms and emerging applications.
During his PhD in computer science at Harvard University, he was also a Visiting Research Scientist at Meta AI. His work has been evaluated at scale in industry use cases, open-sourced, and featured in news articles published by Bloomberg and CNBC. He received the IEEE MICRO Top Picks Award (2022) and Honorable Mention (2021).
Speakers:
Udit Gupta, PhD, incoming Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell Tech of Cornell University
Sherin Gobran, Director of the TMT Program, EMIA (moderator)
The webinar is open to financial professionals, issuers, and EMIA partners only.
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JOB & VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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1. Relationship Managers - Asset Management (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Latin America)I'm a new title block
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The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance seeks relationship managers with at least 10 years of experience in emerging market sales (debt or equity) or relationship management to engage asset managers in our initiatives.
Successful candidates will have a commitment to advancing responsible investing/ESG and a strong client book in their region(s) of focus. The position is remote and candidates may be based anywhere.
Interested candidates should send an email including their resume and/or LinkedIn profile mentioning “Relationship Manager - Asset Management” in the subject line to applicants@eminvestorsalliance.org.
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2. Relationship Managers - Stock Exchanges (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Latin America)
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The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance seeks relationship managers with at least 10 years of experience in emerging markets finance to engage stock exchanges in our initiatives.
The ideal candidate will have a commitment to advancing responsible investing/ESG, and a strong understanding of emerging and frontier equity markets, and relationships with stock exchanges. The position is remote and candidates may be based anywhere.
Interested candidates should send an email including their resume and/or LinkedIn profile mentioning “Relationship Manager - Stock Exchanges” in the subject line to applicants@eminvestorsalliance.org.
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3. Volunteer Opportunities
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The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance seeks volunteers to serve in a range of roles. We welcome interest from those with a range of skilled backgrounds including research and writing, editing, survey design, graphic design, and Drupal web development.
Interested candidates should send an email including your resume and/or Linkedin profile mentioning “Volunteer Opportunities” in the subject to applicants@eminvestorsalliance.org.
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The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to enable institutional investors to use the power of their collective capital and voices to advocate for a more sustainable future. EMIA "Programs" are activities that bring together investors, policy experts, and governments or companies for the purpose of improving ESG best practice adoption. EMIA Programs focus on sovereigns (e.g., Government Debt and Fiscal Governance Program, Sovereign Decarbonization) and on sectors (e.g., Agricultural Program, Extractive Industries, Financials Program and Telecom, Media, and Technology Program).
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