Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, previously Governor of the Bank of England, Governor of the Bank of Canada and Chair of the Financial Stability Board, will provide the closing keynote for Sibos 2021, addressing how to harness the collective power of the financial industry to tackle climate change.</p> Carney is an economist and banker who served as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, and prior to that as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 until 2013. He was Chairman of the Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018. He also worked at Goldman Sachs as well as the Canadian Department of Finance.</p> He is a long-time and well-known advocate for sustainability, specifically concerning the management and reduction of climate risks. As Governor of the Bank of England he was the first Central Bank Governor to champion environmental concerns, overseeing the development of stress tests to measure the vulnerability of banks to climate risk. </p> The keynote is part of the new programming for the Thursday of Sibos Week, designed to get straight to the heart of the most important challenges facing the financial industry. The programme will also include panel sessions on mandated sustainability reporting</a>, the big questions</a> we need to answer as we journey through to Sibos 2022, and diversity, equity and inclusion as a marker for business credibility</a>, as well as a Big Issue Debate asking How do banks balance organisational and personal impact on their business? </a></p> Register now</a> to join us for Sibos week, which runs from 11-14 October. </p>