Michael Sheren is a senior advisor within the Bank of England, providing counsel and independent challenge on financial markets, climate risk, governance, and financial regulation. He works in the bank’s fintech and climate hub and is active globally in private-sector initiatives in digital green finance. Sheren is a delegate to the G20 Infrastructure Working Group and Network for Greening the Financial System, and advisor to the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub. On behalf of BoE and the UK government, he co-chaired the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group with China from 2016 to 2018. Previously, Sheren spent over 25 years in debt capital markets, specializing in the structuring, distribution, and trading of debt for global financial institutions in New York and London.
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