Image Name Speaker Name Title Company Name SpeakerBio Header Title Speakers Edwards_James_250.png James Edwards "Executive Director, Climate Fixed Income Research and Climate Risk Center Lead" MSCI "James is an Executive Director of Research and Product Development at MSCI, where he leads the MSCI New York Climate Risk Center. In this role, James builds solutions to help financial institutions manage their climate-related investment risks, with a focus on fixed income and credit risk. Prior to MSCI, he worked at Moody’s Analytics, developing corporate, sovereign, and real estate credit models for both general and climate applications. James holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago." Gyorgy_Feher_250.png Gyorgy Feher "Senior Associate, Analytics Quantitative and Risk Management Research" MSCI "Gyorgy Feher, PhD is a Senior Associate in MSCI's Analytics Research organization, and works mainly on credit risk related projects. His focus is Integrated Market Credit model, and also supports CreditManager, and recently started to work on modeling climate risk on portfolios. Before joining the firm, Gyorgy acquired a PhD degree in theoretical physics, at the University of Amsterdam, and worked as a physics researcher at University of Melbourne and at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris. " Mark%20Schmude_250(1).png Mark Schmude "Executive Director, Americas Client Coverage" MSCI "Mark Schmude is an Executive Director within MSCI’s Client Coverage organization, and works as a Consultant for clients using the CreditManager and RiskManager platforms. Prior to joining MSCI via RiskMetrics in London in 2009, Mark spent four years with JPMorgan Securities in New York and London, where he was part of the Credit Research team focusing on securitized products. Mark is a CFA Charterholder and holds four degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, including Master’s degrees in Financial Engineering and Industrial & Operations Engineering."