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Peter Ellsworth

Director, Investor Program, Ceres

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Peter works with asset owners and asset managers active in the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), the investor group that supports sustainable investment policies and practices, integration of ESG into investment decisions, and investment that contributes to a low carbon, clean energy economy.  Peter co-authored The 21st Century Investor: Ceres Blueprint for Sustainable Investing, and for the past two years has led working groups and webinars on key developments in the green bond market.

Peter brings to Ceres more than twenty years in the Capital Markets, working with asset owners, managers and corporations designing investment structures and risk management solutions.  His most recent roles were with KLD and the FTSE KLD index partnership, where he was Managing Director of business development and index licensing for the full suite of both firms’ ESG indexes.  Prior to KLD his focus was derivatives solutions in the foreign exchange and fixed income markets, including roles with BankBoston, where he was Managing Director of Foreign Exchange; with Deutsche Bank in New York, where he headed the special products group and managed the firm’s currency options portfolio; and with Goldman Sachs at a time when the growth of international investing by institutional investors was introducing new risks into their portfolios.  He was educated at Franklin & Marshall College, the University of Brussels and the University of Chicago.