Huw van Steenis

Huw van Steenis is Senior Adviser to the CEO of UBS and Chair of its Sustainable Finance Steering Committee.   Prior to this, Huw was Senior Advisor to Mark Carney, when he was Governor at the Bank of England, leading a wide reaching review on the Future of Finance that included a focus on smoothing the transition to a lower-carbon economy and catalysed climate change stress tests.

Huw worked at Morgan Stanley for 14 years spending much of his time there as Global Head of Banks and Diversified Financials research. He and his teams won numerous awards including being voted #1 in investor surveys 12 times and twice Starmine’s stock picker of the year for financial services.  From 2016-2018 he served as Global Head of Strategy at Schroders. He frequently features in the media and writes on investing, sustainability and central banking.

He has served as a member and then co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Financial Systems, the COP26 Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (2020-) and the ECB’s Advisory Group on Macro-Prudential Policies and Financial Stability (2015-2017). Huw is a Trustee of English National Opera.