Nick Robins works at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where he is co-director of the Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. The Inquiry promotes strategies that better connect the financial system with long-term sustainable development. The Inquiry published its first global report, The Financial System We Need, in October 2015 and the second edition, From Momentum to Transformation, in September 2016. He has led the Inquiry’s work in Brazil, the EU, France, India, Italy and the UK, as well as on banking, insurance, institutional investment and the role of financial centres. Nick Robins has over 25 years’ experience in the policy, research and financial dimensions of sustainable development. Before joining UNEP, he was Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC in London from 2007 to 2014, where he produced investment research on issues such as clean tech and climate risk. In the Thomson Extel awards for European investment research, Nick was ranked as #1 analyst for integrated climate change in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

 Nick has produced numerous reports on sustainability, corporate and financial issues, including Managing the Environment: the Greening of European Business(1990), The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (2006) and Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long-Term Performance (with Cary Krosinsky, 2008). He has had articles published by the Financial Times, the Guardian, Huffington Post and Resurgence.