Michael Baldinger is the Chief Sustainability Officer at UBS. In this role, he is responsible for the implementation of the Group Executive Board-sponsored sustainability and impact strategy and provides oversight for sustainability-related projects and activities across UBS.

He also represents UBS Group as President of the Swiss Banking Association’s Expert Commission, Sustainable Finance.

Michael joined UBS in November 2016 as Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at Asset Management (UBS AM) with the mandate to establish UBS AM as a leader in sustainable an impact investing.

During this time, he established an industry leading Sustainable Investing (SI) platform, hired a dedicated SI Specialist team and elevated SI as a critical business driver for the Asset Management division.

Before joining UBS, Michael Baldinger was the CEO of RobecoSAM. In addition, he was responsible for driving the Robeco Group sustainable investing agenda. He was appointed CEO of RobecoSAM in 2011 having joined as Head of Global Clients & Marketing in 2009.

Michael joined RobecoSAM from Credit Suisse Asset Management where, as a Managing Director, he was Head of Distribution for the Americas in New York. Prior to Credit Suisse, he was a Managing Director Principal with Bear, Stearns & Co. in New York, responsible for Institutional Equity Sales for Swiss clients from 1999-2005.

Education: Zurich Business School – Business Management (Switzerland); Harvard Business School – Executive Programs (US), MA

External Board and Committee Memberships: President of the Swiss Banking Association’s Expert Commission, Sustainable Finance.

Panel 1: How to Mobilize the Mind Numbing Financial Means That Would be Needed?

Wednesday, January 15th
09:30 – 11:00 | HG F 30 | Audi Max

Moderator: Christoph Manser (Swiss Life Asset Management)

Panelists:
Michael Baldinger (UBS), Kanat Emiroglu (Alvarez and Marsal), Jing Li (KPMG),  Laurence Moore (Credit Agricole CIB)

Abstract:

Achieving net zero is a generational task and will need enormous amounts of capital. The hurdles for projects are high: they need to be attractive to investors and they need to be bankable. How are we doing in mobilizing the money? What needs to improve? Where will government funding be necessary?