Stuart Barnscher
Mark Chiu
Shui Li
Rohan Poojara
Rohan Poojara is a Financial Services ESG Consulting Director in New York where he advices clients on climate and sustainability business strategy, net zero target setting, and ESG risk management.
Prior to joining PwC, Rohan was a Fellow leading the Climate and Sustainability platform in the Oliver Wyman Forum and a senior manager in Oliver Wyman’s Corporate and Institutional Banking practice. At the Forum, he led the design, development, and launch at COP26 of the Climate Action Navigator, adecarbonization tool, that leverages Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) data to quantify the emissions reductions required to reach net zero by country, sector, and climate action. As a consultant, he worked
with multiple US G-SIBs on their net zero commitments.
Rohan’s financial services experience includes managing >$10BN in client assets as an Investment Specialist at J.P. Morgan, economic policy research at the American Enterprise Institute, and helping launch the savings business for a Cambodian microfinance institution. He started his career as an investment banker in Deutsche Bank’s real estate group and Lincoln International’s mergers and acquisitions group.
Rohan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Washington and Lee University, obtained his Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and is a CFA charter holder. At UVA, he outperformed the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index while serving as Senior Portfolio Manager of the public equities sustainability fund.
Brittany Mancuso Schmidt
Joel Lieginger
Joel Lieginger, Founder and CEO, Paceline: After nearly 20 years as a global leader at the crossroads of financial services, life insurance, and technology, Joel Lieginger had an ah-ha moment when his health and wellness fell by the wayside, leading to the launch of Paceline. Your health is your most valuable asset and the foundation for how everything else functions. Why aren’t we rewarding people for pursuing their wellbeing and for living a healthier, better, and longer life? And better yet, life insurance companies can and should be the payers of preventive health in society.
Eugenie Schwob
The Sustainability Risk team was created in 2022 to support BlackRock’s Risk Managers in their ongoing oversight of portfolio level ESG integration, so that investors recognize, assess and measure sustainability risks and opportunities in their portfolios. The team works on advancing the definition of ESG risk through research, as well as advising in diverse firmwide initiatives such as SFDR methodologies and governance.
Eugenie earned a Master degree in Finance from MIT and a Master degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique. She is the co-author of “The effect of climate risks on the interactions between financial markets and energy companies” publication in Nature Energy.
