EJ Elena Shin, CQF, SCR Head of Climate Solutions, Aviva Investors
Richard Spencer Director of Sustainability at ICAEW
Dr Hendrik Vollmer Reader of Accounting
EJ Elena Shin, CQF, SCR is Head of Climate Solutions at Aviva Investors. She is responsible for the overall development of liquid markets investment solutions to support the delivery of Aviva’s climate ambitions. Her responsibilities include the development of climate investment methodology, frameworks, and tools along with in-depth research and analysis on net zero/climate-related risks, including physical, transition risks and scenario analysis, to assess their potential impact on investment portfolios and identify investment opportunities in support of the investment teams. EJ is also responsible for strengthening Aviva Investors’ commercial position through the development of Aviva Investors’ climate solutions capabilities.
Richard joined ICAEW in 2005 in order to set up the sustainability practice within what was then known as Technical Strategy department, ICAEW’s “think tank”. During this time Richard has led on the ICAEW’s thought leadership, know-how and engagement programme in sustainability. He led on establishing the Natural Capital Coalition, which is a major voice in natural capital debates, now known as the Capitals Coalition. Richard currently sits on the delivery group for the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce. Before joining ICAEW Richard worked as a strategy consultant in the Natural Resources division of Accenture. Prior to that he held a number of roles at N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd in the bank’s treasury and natural resources project finance teams. Richard began his career at the Bank of England.
Dr Hendrik Vollmer joined Warwick Business School in 2020. Prior to coming to the UK, he had worked for sixteen years at Bielefeld University in Germany, where he edited Zeitschrift für Soziologie, one of the leading German- language peer-review journals in sociology. Dr Vollmer is a member of the editorial board of Zeitschrift für Soziologie and of the journal Accounting, Organizations and Society, member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Associate
Editor of European Accounting Review. Dr Vollmer’s research interests include:
understanding accounting as a social practice pervasive across organisations, businesses and governments, public and private settings, professions and industries, local communities as well as global discourses and institutions. He is particularly keen on investigating dynamics of accounting change under disruptive conditions and the potential of accounting to address ecological issues such as environmental impact, degradation, and renewal.
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